Arkady Timofeevich Awertschenko

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Arkadi Awertschenko (around 1920)

Arkady Averchenko ( Russian Аркадий Тимофеевич Аверченко * March 15 . Jul / 27. March  1881 . Greg Sevastopol ; † 12. March 1925 Prague ) was a Russian writer and satirist .

Life

Awertschenko was the son of a businessman and started out as an accountant. He soon tried his hand at narratives and satires . The first appeared in 1903 in a newspaper in Kharkov , where he moved and worked there from 1905–1907 on the satirical magazine Das Bajonett. When he got into trouble with the governor general's censorship and was given the option of either paying a 500 ruble fine or being expelled, Awertschenko went to St. Petersburg in 1908 . Since his stories were not well received by the Russian feature editors in Moscow and Petersburg, he published in his own magazine Satirikon and, from 1913, Nowi Satirikon . During this time, Awertschenko developed into the leading satirist of the last tsarist period. He succeeded in winning the collaboration of important illustrators such as Bilibin and authors such as Mayakovsky for his magazine . Awertschenko wrote daily events and theater reviews under various pseudonyms such as Gorgona or Medusa, while his humorous stories were written under his own name. After the revolution, the magazine was banned in 1918. Awertschenko first fled to Sevastopol , his native Ukraine , where he worked as a journalist from 1919 to 1920. In 1920 he finally emigrated to Prague via Constantinople. He also managed to assert himself successfully in emigration. He appeared as a comedian on stage in various European cities and his stories were first translated into German and then into various other languages. After a serious illness, Awertschenko died in exile in Prague.

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Awertschenko wrote comedies and humorous stories that describe common human weaknesses. He caricatured life in Tsarist times as well as under the Bolsheviks and in emigration , but he was not interested in criticizing political conditions. His humor is philanthropic, not cynical, often melancholy and kind. He managed to put surprising punchlines and achieve comic situations . Awertschenko was attacked by the communists. Lenin described his stories from the time of emigration as "defamations of a White Guard who was embittered to the point of madness".

Editions in German

Stories and grotesques

  • Grotesques. German by Elise Köppen. Munich: Georg Müller, 1914
  • The crime of actress Maryskin and other grotesques . Munich: Georg Müller, 1919; Munich: Herbig, 1971
  • The Russian laugh . Selected grotesques. With illustrations v. Leo Haas. Vienna: Vernay, 1925
  • Common sense . Vienna, 1949
  • What rags the men are. Leipzig / Vienna: Ralph A. Höger Verlag, 1935; Vienna: Paul Neff Verlag, 1953
  • Nor are women angels and other grotesques . Vienna-Berlin-Stuttgart: Neff, 1955
  • The wolf's fur and other stories . Munich: Goldmann, 1964

Pieces and one-act plays (Bühnenverlag Hans Pero, Vienna)

  • Behind the scenes
  • The child and the burglar
  • I liked the other one better
  • The schemer
  • Infant
  • Crooks have worries too
  • The old hand
  • How I became a liar
  • The hunger artist
  • The suicide
  • Where to take and not to steal
  • Happy family life
  • The inventor
  • The gentleman in the green tie
  • The elephant hunter
  • Just no inhibitions
  • How I met my wife
  • Petrov and the black lady
  • The unlucky one
  • How I became a liar
  • The leap into the unknown
  • The house friend
  • The Wizard
  • Do not interfere in strange matters
  • The story of a fur
  • The deaf and mute
  • Last help
  • The Kazantsev Affair

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personal data
SURNAME Awertschenko, Arkady Timofeevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Аверченко, Аркадий Тимофеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Sevastopol
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1925
Place of death Prague