Dmytro Satonskyj

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Dmytro Wolodymyrowytsch Satonskyj (Ukrainian Дмитро Володимирович Затонський, Russian Дмитрий Владимирович Затонский, Dmitry Vladimirovich Satonski ; * 2. July 1922 , Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , USSR , † 7. July 2009 , Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian literary scholar and specialist in German .

Life

Dmytro Satonskyj was a son of the Ukrainian political functionary Volodymyr Satonskyj . He was shot dead in 1938 during the Great Terror .

Dmytro Satonskyj studied literature at the Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev and graduated in 1950. He became a research assistant at the Taras Shevchenko Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , where he founded the Department of Foreign Literature. He headed this from 1962 to 1974. Afterwards he was director of the literature institute.

In 1971 he came to the Federal Republic of Germany for a three-month stay , where he met important authors and critics such as Heinrich Böll and Marcel Reich-Ranicki . Since 1974 he has been a board member of the Goethe Society in Weimar . In 1990 he became an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2005 he received the Goethe Medal .

Publications

Dmytro Satonskyj has published numerous literary publications in Russian and Ukrainian .

German translations (selection)

  • Dmitrij V. Zatonskyj: Kafka without retouching . In: Kunst und Literatur 12, 1964, pp. 804-824, 939-955
  • Dmitri Satonsky: Man and Novel . In: Sinn und Form 5, 1970, pp. 1182ff.
  • Dmitri Satonsky: The novel and the 20th century . Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin (GDR), 1978
  • Dmitri Satonski: The development idea in Goethe's «Poetry and Truth» . In: Goethe-Jahrbuch 99, 1982

Remarks

  1. ^ Literature and dictatorship. A conversation with the Ukrainian literary scholar Dmitri Satonski ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wiener Zeitung , August 28, 1998 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wienerzeitung.at
  2. ↑ Dmytro Satonskyj ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on January 2, 2016 (Ukrainian)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nas.gov.ua
  3. ↑ Ambassador of German culture. Awarding of the Goethe medals at Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 22, 2005
  4. ↑ Zatons'kyi, DV WorldCat Identities
personal data
SURNAME Satonskyj, Dmytro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Satonskyj, Dmytro Volodymyrowytsch (full name); Satonsky, Dmitri Vladimirovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian literary scholar and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Ukrainian SSR
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2009
Place of death Kiev , Ukraine