Arnold Dyck

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Arnold Dyck , actually Abram Bernhard Dyck (born January 19, 1889 in the Hochfeld colony, Dnipro , Yekaterinoslaw Governorate , Russian Empire ; † July 10, 1970 in Darlaten , Germany ) was a Plautdietscher or Ukrainian-German-Canadian author, publisher and Publisher. Dyck is considered to be the founder of the Russian mennonite literature .

Life

After training at the Mennonite Business School in Yekaterinoslav , Dyck studied art history in Munich , Stuttgart and St. Petersburg . During the First World War he served in the Red Cross before working as an art teacher in Nikolaipol . In 1923 he emigrated with his family to Canada and from 1924 published the Steinbach Post in Steinbach . Later he was the founder and editor of the newspaper Mennonite People's Watch (1935-1938), the Mennonite Yearbook (1943-1944) and an employee of the Mennonite Echo publishing house in Winnipeg . He spent the last years of his life with his daughter in Germany.

Work (selection)

Dyck was one of the younger authors in the tradition of Fritz Reuters who used the Low German language as a literary language. His nostalgic novel Lost in the Steppe is considered a masterpiece of the autobiographical novel. He also wrote a number of humorous short stories in the Low German of the Russian Mennonites ( Plautdietsch ), of which Koop enn Bua opp Reise became the best known, until the early 1960s resulted in two sequels and a year before Dyck's death also appeared as a spoken record in the Low German Voices series .

  • Koop enn Bua opp Reise, 1943
  • Lost in the steppe. Mennonite Bildungsroman, 5 volumes, 1944–1948
  • Coop enn Bua no Toronto, 1948
  • Dee Millionää von Kosefeld, 1949
  • Onse song, 1952
  • Coop enn Bua enn Dietschlaund, 1961
  • Collected works , 4 volumes, Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society, Steinbach (Manitoba) 1985–1990
  1. Lost in the steppe. Out of my life. 1985
  • Collected poems and prose, edited by VG Doerksen, 1987

literature

  • Robert Zacharias: Rewriting the Break Event. Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature. University of Manitoba Press , Winnipeg 2013 (Covered: Lost in the Steppe )
  • Michael L. Halley: Education and alienation in Dyck's "Lost in the Steppe": A Novel of cultural crisis. German-Canadian Yearbook - German Canadian Yearbook, ed. Lothar Zimmermann, Hartmut Froeschle , Myka Burke. Historical Society of Mecklenburg, Upper Canada , Toronto 2000 ISSN  0316-8603 pp. 199 - 210
  • André Oberlé: Book Review on Lost in the Steppe : Journal of Mennonite Studies , Vol. 4, 1986, pp. 251-253, University of Winnipeg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. see again: Collected Works, Vol. 1