Benedikt Konstantinowitsch 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
- Literature by and about Benedikt Liwschiz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ 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).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liwschiz, Benedikt Konstantinowitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer, poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1938 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |