Dmytro Sahul

Dmytro Sahul (before 1933)

Dmytro Jurijowytsch Sahul ( Ukrainian Дмитро Юрійович Загул * 28. August 1890 in Milijewe at Vyzhnytsia , Bukovina , † summer 1944 in a Gulag bearings on the Kolyma ) was a Ukrainian poet.

Life

Sahul came from a farming family in Bukovina and became an orphan at an early age . He attended high school in Chernivtsi at the expense of his former elementary school teacher . As a student of philosophy at the University of Chernivtsi , he was expelled to Russia in 1915 when the Russian troops withdrew during the First World War . He soon managed to flee to the Ukraine, where he kept afloat with random work assignments. He later settled in Kiev .

Sahul wrote his first poems as a high school student . They appeared in the Bukowyna newspaper in 1909 . His first volume of poetry “Mereschka” ( embroidery , 1913) went almost unnoticed. As a debut , he considered the second, "S selenych hir" ( From the green mountains , 1918), which was understood as an expression of symbolism and contained many poems related to Bukovina. The third volume, “Na hrani” ( At the Border , 1919) also went in this direction . Imbued with dark, mystical solipsistic motifs, they thematized the bloody struggles and the existential chaos of the civil war. But already the next volume, “Nasch den” ( Our Day , 1925) testified to a “revolutionary transformation” of the poet, who began to sing hymns to the new socialist social order. This conformism culminated in the volume “Motywy” ( Motive , 1927) with bold appeals and revolutionary evocations. However, this did not release Sahul from the stamp of the "Ukrainian nationalist", especially since he belonged to the writers' organization Zachidna Ukrajina ( Western Ukraine ). He published her almanac, wrote literary theoretical contributions and translated Schiller , Goethe and especially Heinrich Heine , of whom he translated almost all of his poems into the Ukrainian language (four volumes) in the 1920s .

In 1933 he was arrested and deported to a gulag camp on the Kolyma . Without returning to his homeland, he died there in the summer of 1944.

Posthumously the selection appeared "Poesiji" (1966 and 1990).

See also : Ukrainian literature

Honors

On his 100th birthday, the Chernivtsi Department of the Ukrainian Writers' Union and the Milijiwe village community donated a literary prize named after Dmytro Sahul . A plaque commemorates him at the former Second Ukrainian Gymnasium in Chernivtsi . The adjacent street bears his name.

Works (selection)

• Selected works / Wybrani twori , translated by Johann Trusch. Misto, Chernivtsi 2002

source

• Peter Rychlo , Oleg Liubkivskyj: Czernowitz City of Literature , 2nd, improved edition. Chernivtsi 2009, p. 105 f.

Web links

• Beyond the impenetrable curtain (English translation)