Igor Shestkov

Igor Shestkov (2008)

Igor Schestkow ( Russian Игорь Генрихович Шестков ; born January 12, 1956 in Moscow ) is a Russian-German writer.

Career

After graduating from school (1973) he studied at the mathematics faculty of Lomonosov University from 1973 to 1978, which he graduated with a diploma. From 1978 to 1988 he worked as a research assistant and took part in several exhibitions of unofficial art in Moscow.

In 1990 he emigrated to Germany as a Jewish refugee . He lived in Chemnitz until 2003 , then in Berlin . In Germany he showed his graphic and photographic work in various personal exhibitions. From 1996 to 2003 he published numerous essays on art under the pseudonym Schestkow-Epstein.

Schestkow has been writing stories since 2003. His literary works have been published in Russian-language magazines in New York ( Slowo / Word , Wremja i Mesto ), Moscow ( Nascha Uliza , Kreschatik ), Berlin ( Jewish newspaper and Europa-Express ), Frankfurt am Main ( literary European and Mosti ), among others . The Chemnitz art newspaper Laterne and the Dresden magazine Ostragehege published his texts in German.

Schestkow is a member of the "Association of Russian Writers in Germany" and the "Association of German Writers" (VS).

Awards

Graphics award of the Sparkassen of the administrative district Chemnitz 2002. For lithography "Moses", 1997.
Winner of the Russian-language magazine “Literarischer European” (Frankfurt am Main) for the periods 2010–2011 and 2014–2016.
Awarded the “Silver Bullet” for 2017 from the publisher Franc-Tireur, USA.

Books

Schestkow-Epstein , Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz, 1996
Fragments , Chemnitzer Kunstverein Laterne, Chemnitz, 1996
After the dance - Small hand-drawing book , Chemnitzer Kunstverein Laterne, Chemnitz, 1996
Developments , Chemnitz, 1997
Cranach's Golgotha , Chemnitzer Künstlerbund, Chemnitz, 1997
Dürer's Melancholy through the Eyes of a Russian and other texts , Chemnitz, 2001
Soul of the Saxons , Chemnitz, 2002
Morgner in Altzella , Chemnitz, 2003
Nebelhüllen , Chemnitz, 2003
The end of Professor Tschesnokow , Pro Business, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86805-342-5
Cleopatra's kiss . Epubli Berlin, ISBN 978-3-748-585-855
A gentleman with a bowler hat . Epubli Berlin, ISBN 978-3-748-585-893
Subov's eternal life . Epubli Berlin, ISBN 978-3-748-585-329
Invasion . Epubli Berlin, ISBN 978-3-748-586-999
Window , My small graphic archive, Epubli Berlin, ISBN 978-3-748-586-449

literature

Writer of Russian emigration , Germany 1920–2014, Literary European, Frankfurt am Main, 2014 (pp. 371–373)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ 100 Saxon Graphics 2002 , editor: Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz, 2002. Page 4

personal data
SURNAME	Shestkov, Igor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schestkow-Epstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow

[1] 100 Saxon Graphics 2002 , editor: Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz, 2002. Page 4