Bjambyn Rintschen
Bjambyn Rintschen ( Mongolian Бямбын Ринчен ; born November 21, 1905 , † April 4, 1977 ) was a Mongolian writer .
Life
Rintschen was born the son of an employee near the Mongolian-Russian border town of Kjachta . He attended a middle school and worked as an assistant clerk in the civil service at a young age. Temporarily interpreter for Süchbaatar , Rintschen studied from 1924 to 1927 at the Institute for Oriental Studies in Leningrad. He was one of the founding members of the writers' circle (1929) and was active on the science committee and editor until 1937. In the course of the Stalinist purges in Mongolia , Rintschen was arrested and innocently imprisoned for five years until 1942. Then working again as an editor, he received his doctorate in Budapest in 1956. In the same year he became a professor at the National University of Mongolia , where he was appointed Section Director for Linguistics. 1961 founding member of the Academy of Sciences, Rintschen was also director of the state publisher.
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The leading linguist wrote a. a. a “Complete Grammar of the Mongolian Language” (1964), but also literary works, for example on the heroic epics, and works on folklore and ethnography (e.g. “Lamaist dance masks”, German 1967). His numerous translations of works of world literature (including Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, Maupassant, Gorky, Mayakovsky, Scholokhov, Nazim Hikmet) are significant.
Some of Rintschen's early poems appeared in the first anthology of the newly founded circle of writers (1929), but he only became known through the script for the extremely successful period film “Tsogt Taidsch” (1944). The main theme of his literary work can be heard here - the Mongolian people's struggle for freedom in different historical epochs.
Rintschen's most important literary work is the trilogy of novels "Rays of Dawn" (1951/55), which uses moving individual fates to paint a lively picture of the changes in Mongolian society from the end of the 19th century to the years after the revolution of 1921. In this first novel in modern Mongolian literature, the author succeeds in combining the artistic and stylistic traditions of old Mongolian prose ( Injannasi ) with those of the Chinese and, above all, the European novel.
In addition to the historical novels "Dsaan Dsaluudai" (1964/66), "The Great Nomad Train" (1972), "Gouverneur Sandoo" (1973) and poems, Rintschen's stories "The traitorous letter" (1957, German 1976), "The Fürstin Anu ”(1959),“ The Princess ”(1962) a. a. great recognition. Rintschen's best works are characterized by a colorful language and a polished style enriched with archaisms , which at the time also earned him official criticism as a “nationalist”.
Along with Tsendiin Damdinsüren and Donrowyn Namdag, Rintschen is one of the “three great old men ” of Mongolian literature .
Translations
- in: Explorations. 20 Mongolian stories, (East) Berlin 1976
- W. Forman / B. Rintschen, Lamaistic dance masks. The Erlig-Tsam in Mongolia, Leipzig 1967
literature
- Walther Heissig, Bimba Rincen (Rintschen), rays of dawn (= dawn), in: Kindlers new literature lexicon (study edition), vol. 14, Munich 1996
- in: Klaus Oehmichen, Ten Mongolian Poets, Mongolian Notes, issue 17/2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rintschen, Bjambyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ринчен, Бямбын (Mongolian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mongolian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1905 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4th 1977 |