Galsan Tschinag

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Galsan Tschinag at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018
Galsan Tschinag at a reading in Munich, 2006

Galsan Tschinag ( Mongolian Чинагийн Галсан , Tschinagijn Galßan , actually Irgit Schynykbai-oglu Dshurukuwaa , born December 26, 1943 in Bajan-Ölgii-Aimag , Mongolia ) is a German-speaking writer from Mongolia . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

He is a member of the Turkic-speaking Tuwiner ethnic group . Tschinag is also a tribal chief, shaman , teacher and actor. He sees himself primarily as the breadwinner of his tribe, whom he has led in a caravan from Siberia to his Mongolian homeland. He became known as a German-speaking writer.

Life

Galsan Tschinag was born in 1943 in Bajan-Ölgii-Aimag, in the High Altai in western Mongolia, the youngest son of a Tuvin family. His paternal aunt by marriage was a shaman. From 1962 to 1968 he studied German at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and finished his studies with a thesis on Erwin Strittmatter . He then returned to Mongolia and worked as a German teacher at the Mongolian state university . In 1976 his teaching license was withdrawn due to political unreliability. In 1980 Galsan Tschinag finished his life at the age of only 36 after he was diagnosed with a severe heart condition. The author previously worked 12 hours a day as a lecturer at all four Mongolian universities. According to Tschinag, his shamanic powers and a lot of sport alone saved his life.

Today he lives most of the year in the state capital Ulan Bator with his family of almost 20 and spends a lot of time on reading trips in German-speaking countries. He spends a third of the year in his residence in Ulan Bator, in Europe and in the western Mongolian steppe with his Tuvin tribe. He writes his novels, stories and poems mostly in German. His stories have also been translated into numerous other languages.

Tschinag describes the relationship with his extensive people as a continuous give and take. The stories from his books are the stories of his people. He uses the fee for the numerous reading trips to financially support the people of his people. Nobody is allowed to go to the doctor without his permission; the person concerned must first be examined by the shaman. Ninety percent of these diseases, according to Tschinag, can be cured by himself. His youngest son Galtai Galsan is considered to be his deputy, who will also inherit the successor as head of the tribe from his father.

In 2009 he founded the Galsan Tschinag Foundation , which, among other things, runs a reforestation project in Mongolia. The foundation's other projects include the promotion of school and vocational training for nomad children in Mongolia.

Works

The White Mountain (2000)

The white mountain tells of tradition and progress in Mongolia, in which the protagonist Dshurukuwaa seeks his destiny.

Dojnaa (2001)

In the story Dojnaa , Galsan Tschinag tells of an arranged marriage that creates conflict and freedom between tradition and modernization in the Mongolian highlands.

Dew and Grass (2002)

The story Tau und Gras contains stories from Mongolia that Galsan Tschinag heard in his childhood.

The kidnapped child (2004)

The novel tells a Tuva legend from Mongolia in the 18th century. As a child, the protagonist was kidnapped from his nomadic tribe abroad, trained there and returned home after seven years as a married prince.

On the Big Blue Road (2007)

In this story, a young Mongolian student is confronted with German culture while studying in Germany.

The nine dreams of Genghis Khan (2007)

In this historical novel, Galsan Tschinag tells the life of Genghis Khan. The narrative is divided into nine day and night dreams in which Genghis Khan looks back on his life while he is dying.

The Return (2008)

Tschinag's autobiographical novel The Return deals with his return to the nomadic tribe of the Tuva, of which he is the leader, after years of absence. Taking into account dreams and memories, he describes the difficulties of nomadic life and the journey of the great caravan with which his people returned to the High Altai in 1995.

The human game (2008)

The content of this story is an old Tuvinian legend about animal people.

The Other Dasein (2011)

The work The Other Dasein can be read as a love story in which two students fall in love with Budapest. When he returns to his homeland, however, she refuses any contact.

Do you know the country Leipzig apprenticeship years (2018)

In the autobiographical novel, Galsan Tschinag describes his life. He begins with his student days in Leipzig, where he got to know the German way of life and European culture as a born nomad.

Other works

Tschinag has published other novels, short stories, and poems, including:

  • 1981 A Tuvan story and other narratives. Stories. Volk & Welt publishing house, Berlin.
  • 1992 the seventeenth day. Stories. A1 Verlag , Munich.
  • 1993 The end of the song. Stories. A1 Verlag, Munich.
  • 1994 The blue sky. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Munich; as Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 1997, ISBN 3-518-39220-4 .
  • 1995 A Tuvan story and new narratives. Stories. A1 Verlag, Munich.
  • 1995 Twenty and one day. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1995 All paths around your yurt. Poems. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld.
  • 1996 I will never be able to tame you. Poems. Frauenfeld, Waldgut Verlag.
  • 1997 The caravan. Stories. A1 Verlag, Munich.
  • 1997 In the land of the angry winds. Together with Amelie Schenk. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld.
  • 1998 cloud dogs. Poems. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld.
  • 1999 The gray earth. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1999 The wolf and the bitch. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld.
  • 1999 Sun red oracle stones. Shaman's chants. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld.
  • 2000 The white mountain. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-458-17032-7 .
  • 2001 Dojnaa. Narrative. A1 Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-927-74355-7 .
  • 2002 dew and grass. Stories. Unionsverlag, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-293-00305-7 .
  • 2002 Ak-Hem's Stone Man. Poems. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld.
  • 2003 The defense of stone against concrete. Two speeches. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld.
  • 2004 The kidnapped child. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-458-17184-3 .
  • 2005 My Altai. Stories. A1 Verlag, Munich.
  • 2006 The magical gold plate and other fairy tales from the present. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld.
  • 2006 Beyond Silence. Poems. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld.
  • 2007 love poems. Poems. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig.
  • 2007 The nine dreams of Genghis Khan. Novel. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-458-17336-6 . ( Insel-Bücherei 1302)
  • 2007 On the big blue road. Stories. Unionsverlag, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-293-00371-2 .
  • 2008 The human game. Narrative. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-458-19302-9 .
  • 2008 The return. Novel. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-458-17410-3 .
  • 2011 The other existence. Novel. Insel Verlag, ISBN 978-3-458-17494-3 .
  • 2012 In the middle a fire. Stories and pictures of the Tuvan nomads in Mongolia. Book and DVD together with Gernot Gleiss and Gernot Stadler. Verlag G2, Klagenfurt, ISBN 978-3-200-02558-5 .
  • 2012 gold and dust. Novel. Unionsverlag, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-293-00446-7 .
  • 2013 The man, the woman, the sheep, the child. Novel. Unionsverlag, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-293-00465-8 .
  • 2018 Do you know the country: Leipziger Lehrjahre , Unionsverlag, Kindle Edition, ISBN 978-3-293-00531-0 .

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unionsverlag, Do you know the country, biographical information, s. a. http://galsan-tschinag.de/portrait/  : "in the winter of 1943/1944"
  2. ^ Website of the Galsan Tschinag Foundation . Retrieved January 2, 2017


Mongolian name: As is customary in Mongolia, in this article the patronymic is in the genitive case before the proper name. Thus Tschinag is the patronymic, Galsan the proper name. The person is addressed with their proper name.
personal data
SURNAME Tschinag, Galsan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irgit Schynykbai-oglu Dshurukuwaa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mongolian tribal prince, member of the ethnic group of the Turkic-speaking Tuva
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bajan-Olgii-Aimag , western Mongolia