Friedrich Bolger

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Friedrich Dawidowitsch Bolger ( Russian Фридрих Давидович Больгер; born April 12, 1915 in the village of Reinhardt on the Volga (today Osinowka, Saratower Oblast ), Russian Empire  ; † December 14, 1988 in Jarowoje , Altai region , Soviet Union ) was a translator , publisher as well as an important poet and playwright of the German-speaking minority in Russia .

Life

Friedrich Bolger's family was of German origin. The father worked as a veterinarian in the former Volga German Republic, which once enjoyed autonomy rights within the Russian Empire and temporarily in the Soviet Union. After studying German at the Pedagogical University of Engels , he worked as a teacher for five years. Since in 1941, by order of Josef Stalin, all Soviet citizens of German origin were to be considered enemies of the people, the Volga German Republic was dissolved and the population was forcibly deported to Siberia and Soviet Central Asia . Friedrich Bolger ended up in the Kazakh SSR , soon afterwards, like many so-called enemies of the people, was sent to a labor camp . Bolger carried out rough construction work there in the Ural Mountains from 1942 to 1946 . After a wide variety of jobs, Friedrich Bolger got a job in the Soviet Russian Altai region in 1962 at the Rote Fahne newspaper , where he worked until 1971. Bolger subsequently became a freelance writer. Friedrich Bolger wrote mainly in German . Deep feelings, philosophical and aesthetic thoughts are listed as typical of his works (prose stories, poetry, plays). The Russian-German writer was heavily influenced by influences from East Slavic poetry, as well as Russian wit.

Works (selection)

• Because you are human (1966)
• Poems (1971)
• The Poet's Heart (1973)
• My Most Beautiful Day (1982)