Benedikt Konstantinowitsch Liwschiz

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Benedikt Liwschiz

Benedikt Konstantinowitsch Liwschiz also Lifschitz ( Russian Бенеди́кт Константи́нович Ли́вшиц ; * December 25, 1886 jul. / January 6,  1887 greg. In Odessa ; † September 21, 1938 in Leningrad ) was a Russian writer, poet and translator from the French.

life and work

Liwschitz studied law at the University of Kiev and admired the modernist French artists and writers, especially Arthur Rimbaud . He published his first own poems in 1909. Liwschiz belonged to the Hyläa group . His memoirs appeared in 1933 under the title The One and a Half Eyes Sagittarius . He was arrested during the Stalin Purge and executed on September 21, 1938 as an alleged enemy of the people .

Works (selection)

  • The one and a half-eyed shooter (memoir, 1933)

In edited volumes:

  • Contribution to a poem in a slap in the face of public taste (1912)

literature

  • Ida Junker: Benedikt Livšic: The poetic work of 1908-1918 in a literary context. A reconstruction . Biblion-Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-932331-32-X , plus dissertation, University of Mainz, Mainz 2001.

Web links

Commons : Benedikt Liwschiz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Wanner: Miniature Worlds - Russian prose poems from Turgenev to Charms; Chapter: Short biographies and notes (bilingual anthology) . Pano Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-907576-73-X , p. 212 f . (Wanner gives 1881–1939 as different life dates).