Bella Achatovna Akhmadulina
Isabella Achatovna Akhmadulina , ( Russian Белла Ахатовна Ахмадулина , scientific transliteration Bella Achatovna Akhmadulina ; born April 10, 1937 in Moscow ; † November 29, 2010 in Peredelkino ) was a Russian poet , translator and essayist .
She derived her origins from Tatars on her father's side and a Russian-Italian family on her mother's side. She was one of the youngest representatives of the generation of poets from the Soviet thaw period , which after the death of Stalin produced somewhat more personal, "intimate" poetry.
life and career
While still at school - in 1954 - Bella Achmadulina published her first poems in the October magazine ( Октябрь ) . Since 1955 she studied very successfully at the Moscow Maxim Gorky Literature Institute , which she graduated in 1960. It helped her poets like Yevtushenko and Roshdestvensky, together with older poets, to an extraordinary popularity. In 1962 the first collection of poems was published under the title The String ( Струна ) , which attracted the attention of colleagues.
In the following years the volumes Schüttelfrost ( Озноб , 1968), Music Lessons ( Уроки музыки , 1969), Poems ( Стихи , 1975) and Schneegestöber ( Метель , 1977) were published. Traveling to Georgia in the 1970s sparked a passion for Georgian culture and literature. She successfully translated works by Georgian poets into Russian, a. a. Titian Tabidze and Irakli Abashidze . Her poetry collections Die Kerze ( Свеча , 1977) and Grusinischer Traum ( Сны о Грузии , 1979) show the influence of this culture on her work.
Her volumes of poetry, Secrets ( Тайна 1983), The Garden ( Сад , 1987), and Selection ( Избранное ) , published in the 1980s, were supplemented by highly acclaimed essays on Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov .
Achmadulina's lyrics are characterized by a melancholy tone and the elaboration of general meaning from concrete, often everyday moments. Examples are the poems Motorroller ( Мотороллер , 1959), tape recorder ( Магнитофон ) or soda water ( Газированная вода ) . Her poetry was often based on intonation and oral performance.
Although she avoided political issues in her work, she was not an apolitical person. In the 1970s under Brezhnev , she was one of the few to stand up for persecuted and oppressed colleagues. In 1989 she received the State Prize of the USSR for the volume of poetry The Garden ; she was also an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1977 .
Akhmadulina was Yevgeny Yevtushenko's first wife.
Works
- 1962: Струна (German: Die Saite )
- 1968: Озноб (German: Schüttelfrost )
- 1969: Уроки музыки (German: music lessons )
- 1975: Стихи (German: poems )
- 1977: Метель (German: Schneegestöber )
- 1977: Свеча (German: Die Kerze )
- 1979: Сны о Грузии (German: Grusinischer Traum )
- 1996: Поездка в город (German: excursion to the city )
- 1997: Наслаждение в Куоккале (German: Genuss in Kuokkala )
literature
- Benjamin Specht: The Poetry of Bella Achmadulina . Munich: Sagner. 2005
- Elaine Feinstein : Three Russian Poets: Margarita Aliger , Yunna Morits , Bella Achmadulina . Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1976
Web links
- Literature by and about Bella Achatowna Achmadulina in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary in the New York Times
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Achmadulina, Bella Achatovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ахмадулина, Белла Ахатовна (Russian); Achmadulina, Bella Achatovna (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian poet, translator and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 2010 |
| Place of death | Peredelkino , Russia |