Boris Djacenko
Boris Djacenko (born September 10, 1917 in Riga , † April 14, 1975 in East Berlin ; pseudonym : Peter Addams ) was a German writer .
Life
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and in the salmon fishery, he also studied as an external philosophy at the University of Riga and wrote his first, unpublished novel, Glowing Ashes, about the Russian Revolution of 1905 .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
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Translations
- Irina Karnauchowa : The fiery red flower , Berlin 1952
- Anna Sakse : Field without boundary stone , Berlin 1949
literature
- Werner Liersch: Unwanted rapes. The Djacenko case . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 25, 2003.
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 361-365 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Boris Djacenko in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography of Boris Djacenko in Killy Literature Lexicaon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adlershof yesterday and today. 1754-2004. Aphaia Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-926677-42-2 ; P. 31: Memory keeps people alive .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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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 |