Andrij Holowko

Andrij Wassylowytsch Holowko , ( Ukrainian Андрій Васильович Головко , Russian Андрей Васильевич Головко / Andrei Golovko Vasilyevich * 21st November 1897 in Jyrky , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † December 5, 1972 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian writer .

Life

After dropping out of secondary school, Holowko went to the cadet school in Tschuhujiw in 1915 . In the same year, after his training, he went to the front of the First World War as a soldier and took part in battles near Rawa-Ruska (near Lemberg ). In 1917, during the October Revolution , he was elected to the Soldiers' Revolutionary Committee of Torzhok City. After returning to Ukraine, he taught at village schools. In 1919 his first volume of poetry "Samocvity" was published.

He fought for Ukrainian independence on the side of the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic . In 1920 he voluntarily joined the Red Army . During a psychotic seizure, he murdered his wife and six-year-old daughter and went to psychiatric treatment.

In the mid-1920s he became a member of the literary organization “Pluh” and during this time he had his most creative creative phase, during which he published his most famous works “Burjan” and “Pylypko”. As a representative of workers 'and peasants' literature, his works were characterized by revolutionary romanticism. They use characteristics of socialist realism .

Andrij Holowko died on December 5, 1972 in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .

Works

Samocvity (1919)
Pylypko (1923)
Červona Chustyna (1924) (German: "The red headscarf" Berlin 1963)
Burjan (1927)
Maty (1932)
Artem Garmaš (1951)

literature

Šnajder: Andrij Holovko-literaturnij portret. Kiev 1961.
Pasičnik, Frolova: Andrij Holovko-tvorčij šljach. Kiev 1967.

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personal data
SURNAME	Holowko, Andrij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Holovko, Andrej; Golovko, Andrij; Головко, Андрій Васильович (Ukrainian); Головко, Андрей Васильевич (Russian); Golowko, Andrei Wassiljewitsch; Holovko, Andrij Vasil'ovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jyrky , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	5th December 1972
Place of death	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR