Dmitri Alexejewitsch Gluchowski

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Dmitri Alexejewitsch Gluchowski ( Russian Дмитрий Алексеевич Глуховский , also Anglicized Dmitry Glukhovsky transcribed, scientific transliteration Dmitrij Alekseevič Gluchovskij ; born  June 12, 1979 in Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian author of the present day.

Life

Gluchowski grew up in Moscow and learned French at school; he then studied journalism and international relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . He lives in Moscow and writes for Harper's Bazaar , L'Officiel , Playboy and Russia Today . In July 2007 he undertook the first direct broadcast from the North Pole in cooperation with Deutsche Welle and Sky News .

His novel Metro 2033 is set in the Moscow Metro and was the basis for a computer game of the same name . The sequel is called Metro: Last Light . Some works by other authors based on the environment of Metro 2033 are based on the same starting point (see Metro 2033 Universe ).

In 2009, the sequel to Metro 2033 , Metro 2034, appeared . The third volume in the series, Metro 2035 , was published in 2015.

In 2018 the German translation of his novel Text , which takes place in Moscow in 2016, was published. Gluchowski describes him as a techno thriller and crime intrigue.

In addition to his native Russian, Gluchowski speaks several languages ​​(English, French, German, Hebrew, Spanish).

Political opinions

Politically, Gluchowski is seen as a sharp analytical critic of the Russian situation under Vladimir Putin . In interviews ( Zeit 2016, Focus 2018) and the book "Text" he described his view of the situation in Russia. You can still express yourself relatively freely there, but almost all media are controlled by Putin's friends and supporters. Discussions would take place on television in which “a few domesticated liberals” were allowed to participate, but ultimately the whole thing was largely “staged and orchestrated”. In contrast to China or Iran , the Internet is free, but entire armies of paid bloggers - Internet trolls - are working to dispute and blur information. Unwelcome news would be flooded with "additional information, with details, simultaneous versions, different perspectives, trivialities and absurdities". It would even pay commentators who deliberately spread liberal views, only to be portrayed as “pathetic lunatics” by those loyal to the government. The addressee should "get lost, lose sight of the essentials, tire".

For years, the state had searched for an ideology and tried various things - the modernization, the revival of the Christian Orthodox tradition, but nothing really took root. For some time the " genie of nationalism and imperialism" has been brought out again. Putin does not have a “master plan for Russia”, he is “not a strategist, at most a talented tactician”, he observes and reacts and acts according to the situation. He did not have a project, but had "made a private company out of Russia", with which two classes existed in Russian society: the people who belong to the power apparatus and everyone else who is excluded. This includes the lack of any legal certainty.

In 2017, in an interview with Novaya Gazeta , Gluchowski mentioned the collapse of ethics and the penetration of a prison culture into everyday life: In contrast to the West, there is no protection of the citizen in Russia through rules and laws. On the other hand, boots and armored chains made the Russians proud in European countries, according to Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyayev , who had postulated that the only national idea rooted in Russia was expansion. Putin could not afford any changes; his only initiative had been the annexation of Crimea.

In 2019, Gluchowski called the legal uncertainty vis-à-vis Russian authorities and security forces a hydra against which civil society was powerless.

Publications

Dmitri Gluchowski (right) in October 2014
  • Метро 2033, 2007
    • In German: Metro 2033 . Translated from the Russian by David Drevs, 2008
  • Сумерки (Twilight), 2007
    • in German: Sumerki - twilight . Translated from the Russian by David Drevs, 2010
  • Метро 2034, 2009
    • in German: Metro 2034 . Translated from the Russian by David Drevs, 2009
  • Будущее (future), 2013
    • In German: FUTU.RE . Translated from the Russian by David Drevs, 2014
  • Метро 2035, 2015
    • in German: Metro 2035 . Translated from the Russian by David Drevs, 2016
  • Текст, 2017
    • in German: text . Translated from the Russian by Franziska Zwerg, 2018
Audio books

literature

Web links

Commons : Dmitri Gluchowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Gluchowski at Europa Verlag, accessed on January 5, 2019
  2. ↑ Dmitry Glukhovsky. Glagoslav Publications, accessed June 19, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Dmitry Glukhovsky. Nibbe & Wiedling, accessed on June 19, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Dmitry Glukhovsky reads from "Metro 2035" - reading by LovelyBooks.de. LovelyBooks.de, accessed June 19, 2016 (YouTube Video).
  5. ↑ "He is considered a cool guy" - Interview with Dmitri Gluchowski (Interviewer: Thomas E. Schmidt), Die Zeit N ° 26, June 16, 2016
  6. ↑ "Putin lies and lies and lies" , Focus, September 16, 2018
  7. ↑ Dmitri Gluchowski: "Children will inevitably win, the question is whether the current government has time to spoil them" , novayagazeta.ru, June 19, 2017
  8. ↑ hydra ; "Our main misfortune is not lack of freedom; our main problem is powerlessness. The insignificance of people, their insecurity."
Metro 2033
Books and adaptations of the Metro 2033 universe by Dmitri Alexejewitsch Gluchowski


Books

Metro 2033 (2007) • Metro 2034 (2009) • Metro 2035 (2016)

Computer games

Metro 2033 (2010) • Metro: Last Light (2013) • Metro 2033: Wars (2014) • Metro Exodus (2019)

personal data
SURNAME Gluchowski, Dmitri Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Глуховский, Дмитрий Алексеевич (Russian spelling); Glukhovsky, Dmitry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian science fiction and fantasy author
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow