Anatol's Imermanis

Anatols Imermanis (born November 18, 1914 in Moscow , † November 13, 1998 in Riga ) was a Latvian writer and painter. His crime novels were u. a. translated into Russian and reached millions of copies. Imermanis also deserves attention as a science fiction writer ( Mortona piramīda , 1971).

Life

Anatol's Imermanis. Photo: Matthias Knoll

Imermanis was born into a family of Latvian German-speaking Jews in Moscow, where she had been evacuated because of the First World War . After the end of the war, the family returned to the now independent Republic of Latvia and settled in Liepāja . Imermanis later studied English in Riga . First publication of poems in 1933; In 1934 he was arrested because of his membership in a communist underground movement and to three years in prison convicted.

During the Second World War Imermanis worked for various front newspapers of the Red Army . After the war he continued his literary activities as a poet, translator and novelist and achieved great popularity. His oeuvre very vividly traces the path from convinced communist to radical individualist and nonconformist. In the early 1970s Imermanis turned to painting; some of his volumes of poetry contain reproductions of his paintings.

Anatols Imermanis not only translated his own novels into Russian, but also Russian and German poets into Latvian, and others. a. Aleksandr Blok and Johannes R. Becher .

Works

Novels and short stories

• Lidojums (The Flight. Stories), 1949
• Parole - USSR * (Parole: USSR. Roman), 1950
• Dzīvoklis bez numura * (Apartment without number. Roman), 1952
  • Russian translation by N. Bat (Н. Бать): Квартира без номера , 1956 ( full text on e-reading.club)
  • German translation by Jutta Balk: Quarters without a number. German military publisher , Berlin 1963
• Sestās klases dārgums (The sixth grade treasure. Short novel), 1955
• Biedrs mauzeris * (Comrade Mauser. Novel), 1960
  • Russian translation by Juri cap (Юрий Каппе): Товарищ маузер ( full text on e-reading.club)
• "Tobago" maina kursu * (The Tobago changes course. Roman), 1961
• Pavadonis met ēnu (A satellite casts a shadow. Detective novel), 1964
• Lidmašīnas krīt okeānā (Airplanes crash into the ocean. Detective novel), 1968
• 24-25 neatgriežas *. Trīs dienas Kristportā (24-25 does not return / Three days in Christport. Film counts), 1968
  • German translation from Russian by Anneliese Globig: 24-25 does not return. Publishing house culture and progress ("Kleine Jugendreihe"), Berlin 1965
• Hamburgas orākuls (The Hamburg oracle. Detective novel), 1970
• Viesnīcas "Holivuda" rēgi (The Ghosts of Hotel Hollywood. Roman), 1970
  • Full text of both of the last-mentioned novels in the Russian translation of the author ( Призраки отеля “Голливуд” and Гамбургский оракул ) on e-reading.club
• Mortona piramīda (The Morton Pyramid. Novel), 1971
  • Russian translation by the author: Пирамида Мортона , 1978 ( full text on e-reading.club)
• Seifam vajadzīgs kramplauzis ( You need a crowbar for a safe. Roman), 1978
• Nāve zem lietussarga (Death under the umbrella. Novel), 1982
  • Russian translation by A. Melgalvis: Смерть под зонтом ( full text on e-reading.club)
• Autogrāfs (autograph), 1993
• Nāve stadionā (Death in the stadium. Short novel, 1993)
• Kriminālgabals ar piecām plikavām (crime piece with five nudes. Short novel), 1993
• Sarkanais obelisks (The Red Obelisk. Novel), 1993
• Erotiskā biogrāfija (Erotic Biography), 1993
• Mantojums no Amerikas (The Inheritance from America. Novel), 1994
• Misija Limā (Mission in Lima. Roman), 1994
• Viesnīcas “Aizsaule” spoki (The Ghosts of the Hotel Beyond. Novel), 1995
• Pieci aresti un piecas plikavas (Five arrests and five nudes. Memoirs), 2002

(* in collaboration with Gunārs Cīrulis )

Volumes of poetry

• Pie Daugavas (On the Daugava ), 1947
• Pilsēta pie jūras (City by the Sea), 1951
• Kur visi kuģi satiksies (Where all ships will meet. Poem), 1953
• Zvaigžņu stundā (At the Starry Hour ), 1959
• Kamēr sirds vēl sit ... (As long as the heart is still beating ...), 1959
• Šonakt mierīgas tikai zvaigznes (Only the stars are quiet tonight), 1961
• Atzīšanas coke. Lirika un poēmas (The Tree of Knowledge. Lyric and Poem), 1974
• Saruna ar V. van Gogu et al. c. (Conversation with V. van Gogh and others), 1976
• Palete (pallet), 1979
• Molberts (easel), 1981
• Dzīļu noreibums. Dzeja 1982 (Tiefenrausch. Poems 1982), 1984
• dzīvesstāsts un 33 jauni dzejoļi par mīlestību un nemīlestību (CV and 33 new poems about love and non-love), 1997

Selected volumes

• Lirika. Izlase (Poetry. Selected Poems), 1964
• Izlase (selection of poems and novels, 2 volumes, 1990)

German-language publications

• Quarters without a number (novel), 1963
• 24-25 does not return (detective story), 1965
• 1 poem in: Miracles and Wounds. Poetry from Latvia , 1993
• 3 poems in: solar plexus. Literature from Latvia , 1997

Web links

• Poems and obituaries at www.literatur.lv