Anna Altschuk

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Anna Altschuk ( Russian Анна Альчук ), actually Anna Alexandrovna Michaltschuk ( Анна Александровна Михальчук ; born May 28, 1955 in Boschnjakowo near Lessogorskoye , Sakhalin Oblast ; † March 2008 in Berlin ), was a Russian photographer and poet.

Life

Alchuk studied history from 1973 to 1978 at Lomonosov University . From 1987 to 1988 she edited the samizdat magazines Paradigma and MDP . At the end of the 1980s she took part in the first exhibitions of the Moscow conceptual artists . Later she performed with musical and poetic performances, often accompanied by jazz musicians such as Sergei Letow (* 1956) and the band Tri O . Her first volume of poetry was published in 1994.

Alchuk was a member of the Russian PEN Club and the Russian Writers' Union. She participated in exhibitions in both Russia and Great Britain, Germany, Hungary and Sweden. At the beginning of 2003 she took part in an exhibition " Осторожно, Религия! " (Translated: "Attention, religion!"), In which the Orthodox Church of Russia was thematized. Their works of art were destroyed by vandalism, but in the course of the destruction and the demolition of the exhibition, it was not the vandals who were charged, but Alchuk himself for "violating religious feelings". In a lengthy process that received a lot of media attention in Russia and internationally, she was finally acquitted, but her reputation was badly damaged by the many negative headlines in the Russian press. Because of the ongoing hostility, she decided to emigrate to Germany with her husband, the philosopher Michail Ryklin .

Ryklin describes the process and its consequences in detail in his book "With the Law of the Stronger", in German at Suhrkamp 2006. Since November 2007 they lived in Berlin. On March 21, 2008, Anna Alchuk disappeared. On April 10, 2008, her body was found in the Spree . Her husband believes he has committed suicide as a result of the traumatic experience of losing his home and ongoing allegations.

Works

Volumes of poetry

  • Двенадцать ритмических пауз . Moscow 1994.
  • Сов семь (poems 1986–1989). Moscow 1994, ISBN 5-85280-033-6 .
  • Движение . Moscow 1999.
  • не БУ (poems 2000-2004). Moscow 2005, ISBN 5-85511-011-7 .
  • float to stand . Poems. Suhrkamp 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12610-3 .

Essays

  • (Ed.) Женщина и визуальные знаки . Moscow 2000, ISBN 5-7333-0043-4 .
  • (with Natalja Azarowa ) 57577. Переписка в форме традиционной японской поэзии . Moscow 2004, ISBN 5-8163-0063-6 .

Participation in edited volumes

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Putin critic found dead in Berlin (Welt Online, April 11, 2008)
  2. ↑ Putin critic found dead (Spiegel Online, April 11, 2008)
  3. ↑ Putin critic disappeared in Berlin (Welt Online, March 27, 2008)
  4. ↑ "For the Russians, democracy means robbery". Interview in: Tages-Anzeiger from October 1, 2011
  5. ↑ Ryklin: "It was suicide, despair." Interview in Zeit Online March 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Alchuk, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michalchuk, Anna Alexandrovna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian video artist, photographer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Boschnjakowo near Lesogorskoye , Sakhalin Oblast
DATE OF DEATH March 2008
Place of death Berlin