Fritz Mierau

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Fritz Mierau (born May 15, 1934 in Breslau ; † April 29, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German Slavist , literary historian , translator , essayist and editor .

Fritz Mierau at a reading

Live and act

Fritz Mierau spent his childhood and youth in Döbeln, Saxony . After graduating from high school, he studied Slavic Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1952 to 1956 . From 1957 to 1962, after briefly lecturing at the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship, he was a research assistant at the University's Slavic Institute under Hans Holm Bielfeldt . From 1962 he worked as a freelance essayist, editor and translator. From 1964 to 2009 he was a permanent contributor to the magazine Sinn und Form . In 1965 he went on a major literary study trip to southern Russia and Georgia. From 1969 to 1980 he worked as a research assistant at the Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR . From 1966 to 1990 he was a member of the GDR Writers' Association and from 1974 to 1991 the PEN Center (East, later West).

Mierau's research mainly concerned Russian literature in the first half of the 20th century and its uptake in Germany. The authors published by him include a. Anna Akhmatova , Isaak Babel , Andrei Bely , Alexander Blok , Ilja Ehrenburg , Pawel Florenski , Sergei Jessenin , Michail Kuzmin , Vladimir Mayakovsky , Ossip Mandelstam , Boris Pasternak , Alexander Pushkin , Sergei Tretyakov , Yuri Tynjanow , Marina Tsvetaeva . But he also translated works of the classic Alexander Pushkin and published about him.

He regularly gave lectures on Russian poets, including 1972–2009 in the club of the Kulturbund von Hoyerswerda , 1999–2005 in the poet's place “Sarah Kirsch” in Limlingerode and 2008–2015 in the seminar for artistic and aesthetic practice led by the painter Ruth Tesmar “ Menzel roof ”. Since 2008 he has worked for the artist magazine Herzattacke and a member of the Academy of the Arts Berlin-Brandenburg .

Fritz Mierau died in April 2018 at the age of 83 of complications from pneumonia . His burial place is on the St. Marien and St. Nikolai cemetery I (also called the old cemetery of the St. Nikolai and St. Marien parish ). His estate is in the literary archive of the Akademie der Künste .

Writings and editions (selection)

  • Star flight and apple blossom - Russian poetry from 1917 to 1962 , ed. together with Edel Mirowa-Florin, Publishing House Culture and Progress, Berlin 1963
  • Left! Left! Left!. A chronicle in verse and poster 1917–1921 , Verlag Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1970.
  • Lenin's language and style , Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1970.
  • Revolution and poetry , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972.
  • Invention and correction. Tretyakov's Aesthetics of Operativity , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976.
  • Concepts. On the publication of Soviet literature , Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1979.
  • The laugh kitchen. A literary encyclopedia in caricatures and personal testimonies , Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig / Weimar 1981.
  • Russians in Berlin. Literature Painting Theater Film 1918–1933 , Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig, 1987.
  • The awakening of the word. Essays by the Russian Formal School , Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1987.
  • Twelve ways to describe the world. Essays on Russian literature , Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1988.
  • Sergei Esenin. A biography , Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-37900-714-5 .
  • The disappearance of Franz Jung. Stages of a biography , Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-89401-294-6 .
  • My Russian Century, Autobiography , Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-89401-386-8 .
  • Russian poet. Poetry and Person , Pforte Verlag, Dornach 2003, ISBN 3-85636-151-0 .
  • Bilingual poetry editions by the publishers Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig and People and World Berlin: Sergej Jessenin (1965); Ossip Mandelstam (1975); Anna Akhmatova (1979); Marina Tsvetaeva (1987).
  • Together with Sieglinde Mierau, he was involved in editing the works of Franz Jung (1980–1998) and Pawel Florenski (1991–2015).
  • Basement of memory. Language in times of lived utopia , epubli, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-74670-658-0 .

Awards

Annual memory

For the 85th birthday in the first year of death, friends and companions designed an evening series of events in May 2019:

  • May 8: Fritz Mierau and Franz Jung . Gallery at Kollwitzplatz "kunst-a-bunt". With Michael Bühnemann, Andreas Hansen and Paul Alfred Kleinert
  • May 15: He was drawn to everyday music. Gallery, bread factory . Film sequence by Dietmar Hochmuth: Fritz Mierau. An organic interview. With Antje Leetz, Marcel Lepper, Klaus Völker , moderation Paul Alfred Kleinert
  • May 18th: The Fiber Album and Pavel Florenski. Atelier on Stromstrasse. With Felix Furtwängler , Uwe Gräfe (film), Paul Alfred Kleinert; also Kristof Steichert: About the work of a literary historian using the example of Mierau.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. 70th year in 2 parts. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045527-4 (print)
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.), Walther Killy (Founder): Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2008–2012. 12 volumes and 1 register volume, volume 8 Marq - Or., 2010.
  • Short biography for:  Mierau, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Mark Siemons: To Russia. FAZ , February 7, 2003, No. 32
  • Adelbert Reif : Conversation with Fritz Mierau . In: Sinn und Form 4/2005
  • Tatjana Hofmann (Zurich) in an interview with Fritz Mierau: "A summary of the century" - Russian modernism in the GDR. Fritz Mierau looks back. In: Anzeiger für Slavische Philologie , Volume XLII, Graz, 2015.
  • Andreas Tretner: Mierau's new "Russian books" . In: At the limits of the possible. Reclam Leipzig 1945–1991 , Christian Links, Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3861539315
  • Andreas Koziol: About Fritz Mierau (1934–2018) . In: Berliner Debatte Initial 29th year (2018), no.3 (focus: Germans see the Soviet Union) ISBN 978-3-945878-91-0 pp. 84-89.
  • Obituary, Translate , 2, 2018, p. 16

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edition Nautilus mourns the loss of Slavists and publishers . In: boersenblatt.net , April 30, 2018, accessed on May 1, 2018
  2. ^ "Sarah Kirsch Poets" program in Lange Reihe 11, in 2005. Sarah Kirsch Poets, archived from the original on March 26, 2005 ; accessed on May 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ Menzel roof ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at the Institute for Art and Visual History (IKB) at Humboldt University
  4. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: editorial office. August 31, 2011, accessed November 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mierau, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist, literary historian, translator, essayist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2018
Place of death Berlin