Boris Djacenko

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Memorial plaque to Boris Djacenko, Friedlander Strasse 156, Berlin-Adlershof, Germany

Boris Djacenko (born September 10, 1917 in Riga , † April 14, 1975 in East Berlin ; pseudonym : Peter Addams ) was a German writer .

Life

Grave of Boris Djacenko in the Adlershof cemetery

Boris Djacenko was a native of Latvia . He attended a grammar school in Riga. His opposition to the authoritarian regime of Kārlis Ulmanis ' led to his expulsion from school. He worked as a sailor , as a showman and in the salmon fishery, he also studied as an external philosophy at the University of Riga and wrote his first, unpublished novel, Glowing Ashes, about the Russian Revolution of 1905 . Because of his left political views, he was from the university administration expelled . Before being arrested, Djacenko fled to Rotterdam as a stowaway on a freighter in early 1939 ; Via various European countries and North Africa he came to Paris , where he was arrested in 1940 for communist underground work and interned in the French camp Le Vernet . After the fall of France, he was as forced laborers in the German Reich deported and placed in a mine. In 1941, the German attack on the Soviet Union thwarted Djacenko's attempt to escape to his Latvian homeland. Danish border guards arrested him and transferred him to prison in Flensburg , from which he fled again. This time he went into hiding in Berlin , where he obtained false papers from a night shelter, worked as a cook, waiter and stage worker and joined a resistance group of forced laborers in the Knorr-Bremse works . When the Red Army marched into Berlin, he worked with Soviet agencies; At times he was acting mayor of Töplitz and worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper . From the beginning of the 1950s he lived as a freelance writer in East Berlin ( Berlin-Adlershof ) and in his summer house in Kolberg .

Boris Djacenko has written novels , short stories and plays . He was regarded as a narrator who was as imaginative as he was true to the line, who often drew on experiences from his eventful life for the actions of his works.

The conflict with the leadership of the SED , to which Djacenko belonged, occurred in 1958 on the occasion of the planned publication of the continuation volume for his novel Herz und Asche from 1954. While this deals with the resistance movement against German fascism during the Second World War , the continuation volume contained the Describes the invasion of the Red Army in Germany and broke in one scene with the taboo in the GDR to address the rape of German women by Red Army soldiers in 1945. After the intervention of the cultural department of the Central Committee of the SED , the book was not allowed to appear. Although Karl Heinz Berger campaigned for the publication as an editor, the manuscript was classified as “anti-Soviet”, the ongoing preprint in the Neue Berliner Illustrierte was stopped, massive pressure was exerted on the author and already completed printed sheets of the book version were destroyed.

Djacenko withdrew to Kolberg and in the following years switched to writing detective novels , which appeared under the pseudonym Peter Addams .

Boris Djacenko's grave is located in grave field E2, in the Adlershof cemetery , in the Berlin district of Treptow.

Works (selection)

Novels, short stories, crime novels

  • People at the border , Berlin 1950
  • Jungle , Berlin 1951
  • How man got face , Berlin 1952
  • The yellow cross and other short stories , Berlin 1953
  • The swallow designer , Berlin 1953
  • Heart and Ashes , Berlin 1954
  • The Shepherd Costas , Berlin 1954
  • The woman on the third floor on the left , Berlin 1955
  • The Khmer chain , Berlin 1955
  • The way into the woods , Berlin 1955
  • Wolves , Berlin 1955
  • Pseudonym: NCO Bronn , Berlin 1956
  • The conspirators of Königsgasse , Berlin 1958
  • Riots in the Königsgasse , Halle (Saale) 1959
  • And they did love each other , Halle (Saale) 1960
  • But under the rock the devil , Berlin 1964
  • The borrowed face , Berlin 1964, Yellow Row (PA)
  • Night over Paris , Halle (Saale) 1965
  • The beheaded Mona Lisa , Berlin 1966 (PA)
  • Angel for ten shillings , Berlin 1967 (PA)
  • Diamond in a stork's nest , Halle (Saale) 1969 (PA)
  • The Swallow Constructor , 1972 ( The New Adventure , Issue 314)
  • Call in the night , Halle (Saale) 1973
  • Sunflower attack , Berlin 1974
  • Murder in the Castle , Berlin 1974 (PA)

PA - published under the pseudonym Peter Addams

Translations

literature

Web links

Commons : Boris Djacenko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adlershof yesterday and today. 1754-2004. Aphaia Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-926677-42-2 ; P. 31: Memory keeps people alive .
  2. ↑ Press release of the Academy of Arts of May 27, 2010: Academy of Arts presents a forbidden novel by Boris Djacenko. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Joachim Walther : Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Ch. Links, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86153-121-6 , p. 452.
personal data
SURNAME Djacenko, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Addams, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1975
Place of death East Berlin