Herald Belger

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Herold Belger ( Russian Герольд Карлович Бельгер ; scientific transliteration Gerol'd Karlovič Bel'ger ; born October 28, 1934 in Engels , Soviet Union ; † February 7, 2015 in Almaty , Kazakhstan ) was a writer and translator of Russian-German origin. His pseudonym is Harry Karlson (Гарри Карлсон).

Life

Herold Belger was born in 1934 in Engels, then the capital of the Volga German Republic , as the only son of the doctor and gynecologist Karl Friedrich Belger († in Tashkent, Uzbekistan). Herold has three sisters, one of whom lives in Germany.

His first mother tongue was Russian ; He learned German or a German dialect after he was sent to his grandparents in Mannheim on the Volga , where a dialect similar to Hessian was spoken.

In the course of the deportation of all Volga Germans in 1941, the family was relocated to northern Kazakhstan in an Aul near the Ishim River . At the age of six he learned the Kazakh language there . In Kazakhstan, the family faced many problems; many family members died as a result of deportation and forced labor. The young Belgian also suffered from disenfranchisement and ubiquitous discrimination. After completing secondary school in Kazakhstan, he was initially denied a degree due to his Russian-German origins.

Only after great efforts and after Stalin's death was he able to study Russian philology at the Kazakh National Pedagogical University in Alma-Ata (today: Almaty) .

After completing his studies, he first worked as a Russian teacher, then at the Kazakh literary magazine Schuldys ; since 1964 he has worked as a freelance writer and translator. In 1971 he became a member of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan.

From 1992 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the German-language almanac "Phoenix". On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the Ministry of Culture and Education financed a ten-volume edition of his literary work.

Herold Belger campaigned for the Russian-German population of the former Soviet republics, especially in Kazakhstan.

From 1994 to 1995 Belger was a member of the Kazakh parliament .

family

Herold Belger was married to the educator Raissa Zakirovna Chismatullina and the father of the actress and film director Irina Kowaljowa.

Honors

Works

Herold Belger is the author of more than 40 books and 1,600 publications in magazines. The central theme of many works is the deportation of the Volga Germans to Kazakhstan and the subsequent life of the protagonists in Kazakhstan. Herold Belger wrote in Kazakh , German and Russian . He also made a name for himself as a translator of over 200 books.

Novels (selection):

  • Goethe and Abai (1989)
  • The House of the Homeless (2009) (Дом скитальца)
  • Tujuksu (Туюк Су)
  • The Kazakh word

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personal data
SURNAME Belger, herald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kazakh writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Engels , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2015
Place of death Almaty , Kazakhstan