Hnat Chotkewytsch

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Group picture at the opening of a monument to Ivan Kotlyarevsky in Poltava in 1903. From left to right: Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj , Wassyl Stefanyk , Olena Ptschilka , Lesja Ukrajinka , Mychajlo Staryzkyj , Hnat Chotkewytsch , Volodymyr Samijlenko

Hnat Martynowytsch Chotkewytsch ( Ukrainian Гнат Мартинович Хоткевич , alias Hnat Halajda (Ukrainian Гнат Галайда ) * December 31, 1877 . Jul / 12. January  1878 greg. In Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire , † 8. October 1938 executed at an unknown Place in the Soviet Union ) was a Ukrainian writer, historian, bandura player , composer, ethnographer, politician.

Life

Hnat Chotkewytsch was the son of the Pole Marcin Chotkiewicz and the Ukrainian Olga geb. Kriwonogowa, a farmer from the Sumy area .

Chotkewytsch graduated from the Kharkiv secondary school with honors in 1894. In 1895 he founded a village theater in Derkachivka. He graduated from the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in 1900 and worked briefly on the Kharkiv- Mykolaiv Railway. In Kharkiv he also learned to play the violin at a professional level from Professor Ilnitzki.

Because of the leadership of a political strike in 1905, he was persecuted and had 1906 by Galicia to move, where he worked in Lviv , later in the village Kryworiwnja in Huzulenland lived and founded a community theater. In Galicia he performed violin concerts and Ukrainian folk songs with bandura accompaniment .

Back in Kiev since 1912 , he took part in literary and artistic events. From February 1913 he headed the literary magazine "Вісник культури і життя" (News about Culture and Life).

He was persecuted again since the beginning of the First World War and had to flee to Voronezh in 1915 , where he stayed until the October Revolution of 1917.

1920 to 1928 he was a lecturer for Ukrainian language and literature in the animal care school in Derkachivka (ukr. Деркачівка ), 1926 to 1932 he headed the Bandura chair in the Kharkiv Institute for Music and Drama, 1928 to 1932 he headed the bandurist band in Poltava , the also performed abroad, particularly in North America.

After the death of the Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Skrypnyk († 1933), he fell out of favor and his works were banned. In 1937 he appeared in the Soviet film «Назар Стодоля» (Nasar Stodolja) as a bandurist. He was arrested during the Great Terror , charged with participating in a counter-revolutionary organization on September 29, 1938, and executed on October 8, 1938. On May 11, 1956, the death sentence was declared illegal, withdrawn and Chotkewytsch rehabilitated. In 1966 his collected works appeared in two volumes.

Works (selection)

  • «Грузинка» (The Georgian Woman) 1897
  • «Блудний син» (The Prodigal Son) 1898
  • "Різдвяний вечір" (Christmas Eve) 1899
  • "Життєві аналогії" (likeness of life) 1897–1901
  • «Камінна душа» (Stone Soul) 1911
  • «Гірські акварелі» (mountain watercolors) 1914
  • «Берестечко» ( Berestetschko ) 1914–1915
  • «Гуцульські образки» (Hutsul Pictures) 1931
  • «Авірон» (Aviron) 1928
  • «Довбуш» (The Drummer) posthumously 1965
  • Scientific papers on Hryhorij Skoworoda , Taras Shevchenko , Jurij Fedkowytsch , Olha Kobyljanska as well as on Ukrainian folk musical instruments.
  • Handbook of the Bandura Game 1909
  • Translations of works by William Shakespeare , Molière , Friedrich Schiller and Victor Hugo
  • Multiple scripts.
  • Around 600 pieces of music for bandura, string quartets, songs and choral music

Chotkevych's family

  • His wife Platonida was persecuted and exiled to Kazakhstan after the Second World War .
  • His daughter Halina was brought to Germany, after the war she came to Morocco , and in 1970 to Grenoble .
  • His son Volodymyr became a soldier of the Ukrainian division founded by the Germans and fell during the Battle of Kursk .
  • His daughter Ola settled in Venezuela .
  • His son Eugen drowned while trying to escape on the Soviet-Iranian border.
  • His son Volodymyr stayed in Kharkiv and was rector of Kharkiv University from 1966 to 1975 .

literature

  • Hnat Chotkewytsch: Robber's Summer  : German by Anna-Halja Horbatsch  : Sachse and Pohl Verlag, 1968.
  • Martin Pollack: Galicia. A journey through the vanished world of East Galicia and Bukovina. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-458-34447-0 .
  • Супрун Н. Гнат Хоткевич - музикант. (Musician Hnat Chotkewytsch) - Рівне, 1997, ISBN 966-7206-04-1 .

Web links

Commons : Hnat Chotkewytsch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ukrainian State Archives
personal data
SURNAME Chotkewytsch, Hnat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Хотке́вич, Гнат Мартинович (Ukrainian spelling); Chotkvych, Hnat Martynowytsch (full name); Halajda, Hnat (alias); Галайда, Гнат (alias, Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1938
Place of death Soviet Union