Andrei Yuryevich Kurkov

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Andrei Kurkow (2010)

Andrei Jurjewitsch Kurkow ( Russian Андрей Юрьевич Курков , Ukrainian Андрій Юрійович Курков / Andrij Jurijowytsch Kurkow; born April 23, 1961 in Budogoschtsch , Leningrad Oblast ) is a Ukrainian writer .

Life

Kurkow, born in the Russian Union Republic of the USSR, has lived in Kiev since early childhood and graduated from the State Pedagogical Foreign Language Institute there in 1983. He belongs to the Russian-speaking population of the country and described himself in March 2014, while "Russia is trying to provoke a civil war in Ukraine", itself as Russians . Kurkow speaks eleven - according to his own, more recent information only seven - foreign languages ​​and has worked in various professions, including editor, prison guard and cameraman. He has been a member of the London PEN Club since 1988, and has lived temporarily in London since 1996 . He penned around 18 documentary and feature film scripts; his novels have been translated into numerous languages, including German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Turkish.

His novels are characterized by a sharp, ironic view of life in post-Soviet society. Despite abstruse, extreme or surreal situations from everyday Ukrainian or Russian everyday life, Kurkow never loses the seriously and loving look at his characters.

In connection with the Euromaidan , Andrei Kurkow published for the first time excerpts from his diaries, which he has been keeping for thirty years. He took a clear position against Viktor Yanukovych , but also expressed criticism of Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yushchenko . He protested against the occupation of Ukraine by Putin's army, also because he “can speak out against corruption, because I want the country in which I live to be a constitutional state”. In Germany, Kurkow is often regarded as the “Ukraine explainer”, also because of the most recent book, who illuminates the relationship to Europe and Russia under Vladimir Putin . The crisis in Ukraine is actually a Russian crisis: Putin fears the desire for freedom that could spill over to Russia.

In December 2016 Kurkow was one of the signatories of the appeal of the Berlin International Literature Festival "End the mass murder in Aleppo!", Which is directed against the "bombing war by Russian President Putin in the Syrian city ​​of Aleppo ".

Works

Books

  • (Не приведи меня в Кенгаракс, 1991)
  • (11 необыкновенностей, 1991)
  • as co-author (Бикфордов мир, 1993)
  • Picnic on the Ice , 1999 (Смерть постороннего, 1996; later edition under the title: Пикник на льду, 2005), ISBN 3-257-23255-1 - German by Christa Vogel
  • Petrovich , 2002 (Добрый ангел смерти, 1997), ISBN 3-257-06247-8 - German by Christa Vogel
  • C 2001 (Милый друг, товарищ покойника) ISBN 3-257-06239-7 - German by Christa Vogel
  • Penguins don't freeze (2003), ISBN 3-257-06377-6 - German by Sabine Grebing
  • Not afraid of the dark , 2004, ISBN 3-908713-06-4 - German by Angelika Schneider
  • The President's Last Love (Последняя любовь президента, 2005, ISBN 5-94278-920-7 ), 2005, ISBN 3-257-06486-1 - German by Sabine Grebing
  • (Закон улитки, 2005, ISBN 5-94278-967-3 )
  • (Любимая песня космополита, 2006, ISBN 5-367-00271-4 )
  • (Сады господина Мичурина, 2006, ISBN 5-367-00172-6 )
  • Mycelistan or: "... global warming at a single selected point" (bilingual German and Russian, in the translation by Judith Merkushev). Berlin: Katzengraben-Presse 2006, ISBN 3-910178-59-6
  • Herbstfeuer , 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-06606-7 - German by Angelika Schneider
  • The milkman in the night , Diogenes-Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-06727-9 - German by Sabine Grebing
  • The true people's controller , Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-679-5 - German by Kerstin Monschein
  • The gardener von Otschakow , Diogenes-Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-257-06814-6 - German by Sabine Grebing
  • The unbending parrot , Haymon Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7099-7012-6 - German by Sabine Grebing
  • Ukrainian diary. Notes from the heart of the protest , Haymon Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7099-7154-3 - German by Steffen Beilich
  • Jimi Hendrix live in Lemberg , Diogenes-Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-257-06871-9 - German by Johanna Marx and Sabine Grebing
  • The ball on the way to the hero , Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7099-7181-9 - German by Claudia Dathe
  • The world of Mr. Bickford , Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7099-7281-6 - German by Claudia Dathe
  • Cartography of Freedom , Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7099-3434-0 - German by Claudia Dathe
  • Gray bees, Diogenes-Verlag, Zurich, 2019, ISBN 978-3-257-07082-8 - German by Johanna Marx and Sabine Grebing

Film scripts

  • (Исход, 1990)
  • The Pit , (Яма, 1991, drama)
  • (Воскресный побег, 1992)
  • (Ночь о любви, 1992)
  • (Елисейские поля, 1993, melodrama)
  • Picnic on the ice (Смерть постороннего, 1996)
  • A friend of the deceased (Приятель покойника, 1997)

Radio plays

  • A friend of the deceased , production: WDR 2015, length: 53 ', editing and direction: Uwe Schareck .

Web links

Commons : Andrej Kurkow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How Putin is being driven by Comrade Stalin , Die Welt, March 15, 2014
  2. ↑ Ulrich M. Schmid: At the end of the minority. Ukrainian authors about the «Euromaidan». Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 9, 2014, accessed on July 19, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Rupert Neudeck : I want my country to become a constitutional state , sonnseite.com, September 25, 2014
  4. ↑ Putin has consolidated us Interview with “WNA | Economy Neckar-Alb ”, accessed on October 29, 2014.
  5. ↑ Andreas Fanizadeh: "The time of the operetta is over" , interview with Andrej Kurkow, in: taz , October 17, 2014, p. 13.
  6. ↑ Ukraine in spite of everything , SRF DOK , March 17, 2016, minute 27
  7. ↑ The end of the mass murder in Aleppo - great response to the appeal. Wording of the call in four languages ​​from December 8, 2016 on AVIVA-Berlin , accessed on May 1, 2020.
  8. ↑ Radio play "A friend of the deceased" By Andrej Kurkow ( Memento from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), WDR, accessed May 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kurkow, Andrei Jurjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurkov, Andrei; Kurkow, Andrei; Курков, Андрій Юрійович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Budogoschtsch, Leningrad Oblast