Andrei Georgievich Bitov

Andrei Bitow, 2008

Andrei Georgijewitsch Bitow ( Russian Андрей Георгиевич Битов ; born May 27, 1937 in Leningrad ; † December 3, 2018 in Moscow ) was a Soviet or Russian writer of literary postmodernism .

biography

Bitow's father was an architect, his mother a lawyer. He grew up in Leningrad. During the blockade of the city in World War II , he was evacuated to the Urals and Central Asia.

In 1957 he began studying geology at the Leningrad Mining Institute and graduated there in 1962. From 1959 he published short stories, essays, novels and travelogues. In 1965 he became a member of the Soviet Writers' Union .

In 1979 he was part of the editorial board of the underground literary almanac Metropol, along with Vasily Aksjonow , Fasil Iskander , Viktor Erofejew and Evgeni Popow . As a result, no works by him were published until 1986. Only with the onset of perestroika could his books appear again.

Bitow was u. a. from 1989 Vice President and from 1991 President of the Russian PEN Center , from 1992 Chairman of the Board of the Nabokow Foundation. He was a member of the editorial boards of various magazines and almanacs.

Bitov lived in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Awards

Bitow has received numerous national and international awards for his work, including a. In 1989 the Alexander Pushkin Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation , in 1996 the State Prize of the Russian Federation and in 2006 the Ivan Bunin Prize. In 2008 he and his translator Rosemarie Tietze were awarded the Brücke Berlin Prize for Literature and Translators for Das Puschkinhaus . In 2015, Bitow received the Russian Platonov Prize .

In 1997, Bitov became an honorary citizen of Yerevan and received an honorary doctorate from the Yerevan State University .

Works published in German

• The Pushkin House. Roman, transl. v. Natascha Spitz-Wdowin u. Sylvia List. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-472-86488-5 ; New translation v. Rosemarie Tietze . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-41922-9 )
• The red balloon. Narrative, trans. v. Elisabeth Schleicher. Heliopolis-Verlag, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-87324-096-3 .
• The light of the dead. Memories of reality , selected u. trans. v. Rosemarie Tietze. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 1990, ISBN 3-630-86721-9 .
• The birds. Or news from people , trans. v. Hilde Angarowa. Pendo Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-85842-192-8 .
• The unloved Albina. Stories, trans. v. Erich Ahrndt u. a., Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1982 (also: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-10032-1 ).
• Man in landscape. A pilgrimage . Roman, transl. v. Rosemarie Tietze. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87134-039-1 .
• Pushkin's hare. Roman, transl. v. Rosemarie Tietze. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-458-16958-X .
• The role. Roman, transl. v. Alexander Kaempfe. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1983 (also: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-29578-5 ).
• Armenian lessons. A trip from Russia , trans. v. Rosemarie Tietze. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-41319-8 .
• Georgian album. In search of home , trans. v. Rosemarie Tietze. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-41478-X .
• Taste. Novella, trans. v. Rosemarie Tietze. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41641-3 .
• The symmetry teacher. Roman, transl. v. Rosemarie Tietze. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 3-518-42329-0 .

Secondary literature

• Sven Spieker: Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose. Postmodernism and the Quest for History. (= Slavic literatures) Frankfurt: PeterLang, 1995, ISBN 978-3-631-46940-8 .
• Ellen Chances: Andrei Bitov: The Ecology of Inspiration. (= Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature ). Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-521-02527-3 .

Web links

Commons : Andrei Bitov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andrei Georgijewitsch Bitow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wonderfully bloated zeros. Olga Martynova onAndrei Bitov's Pushkin House, Die Zeit , June 27, 26, 2008
• Images by Andrei Bitov on Faces of Russian Literature (Russian)
• International United Center for Biographies (Russian) ( Memento of February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Sarah Leonor Müller: Andrej Bitov's Uroki Armenii - a literary spatial utopia. An analysis of perception patterns and spatial concepts. (PDF; 3.9 MB). 2009
• The light of the dead. A memorial evening for Andrei Bitov. Hanns Zischler and Rosemarie Tietze u. a. remember Andrei Bitov and his work. Berlin-Charlottenburg, Buchhändlerkeller, March 12, 2019, VdÜ

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Умер писатель Андрей Битов rt.com, accessed on December 3, 2018.