Dendewiin Pürewdordsch

Dendewiin Pürewdordsch ( Mongolian Дэндэвийн Пүрэвдорж ; * 1933 ; † 2009 ) was a Mongolian writer and poet .

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Pürewdordsch was born the son of cattle herders , had been employed at the State Music Theater in Ulan Bator since 1953 and worked as a teacher and journalist . In 1957 he finished his studies in philosophy , from 1960 to 1964 he studied at the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. At times Pürewdordsch was head of the poetry section and chief editor of the publishing house of the Writers' Union. He died in 2009.

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At the age of twenty he published his first two volumes of poetry in 1953. The focus of his thematically broadly diversified poetic work is the human being with his diverse social relationships and conflicts. As early as the 1950s, further volumes of poetry by the very productive poet, who significantly enriched modern Mongolian poetry over half a century, were published: "Song of Spring" (1956), "Five Stars" (1957) and "Rote Funken" (1958). Poemes such as "The Shine of the Steppe" (1960) and "The Falcon" (1960) followed. With “Mein Name ist Mongole” (1961), the poem “Schwarzer Schnee” (1968, excerpt from German 1981) and “Here is Buchenwald” (1973), Pürewdordsch proves himself to be a patriot as well as an opponent of war and fascism .

Pürewdordsch is the creator of intellectually deep poems of nature and love, such as “Naadam im Sum” (1963) about the Mongolian national festival, “Hundred Trees” (1967) and “The Consort” (1972). Also popular with Mongolian readers are many poems and poems from poetry books such as "The winged white yurt" (1965), "The way to the sun" (1970), "Tea in the open" (1973), "The white mountain Bogd" ( 1976) and “Stars in the Hand” (1982). In addition to the poem “Gods and People” (1986), the highlights of the poet's work in the 1980s are the poems in the volume “A Terleg of Blue Cotton” (1983). Many of his natural and love poems were set to folk songs and prove the versatile poetic talent of Pürewdordsch.

In the course of the celebrations for the 800th birthday of the founder of the Mongolian state, Genghis Khan , which were broken off on Moscow's orders , Pürewdordsch with the poem of the same name (1962) came under fire, which he publicly rejected. The poem was finally recorded with great success in 1990 on the 750th anniversary of the "Secret History".

Even his librettos are historical and folkloric motifs based premiered as the first Mongolian musical "The Naked Prince" (1985) and for the 2002 successful opera "Kharkhorin" (= Karakorum) about events in the center of the Mongol Empire under the Successors of Genghis Khan.

criticism

Pürewdordsch's lyric is characterized by ideal and poetic density, masterful speech and extraordinary emotionality. He took up many suggestions from modern world poetry, but always remained committed to the traditions of national poetry and developed them further. In addition to Begdsiin Jawuuchulan , Pürewdordsch is considered to be the main representative of the “golden generation”, as the best poets of the 1950s to the early 1980s are often called.

Translations

• in: Was covered with tear smoke. Poems against fascism and war, (East) Berlin 1981
• in: Klaus Oehmichen, Ten Mongolian Poets, Mongolian Notes, issue 17/2008
• in: The times move under the Eternal Sky. A pearl necklace by Mongolian poets, Leipzig 2014

literature

• in: Klaus Oehmichen, ibid.