Ihor Kostetskyj

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Ihor Kostezkyj ( Ukrainian Ігор Костецький , pseudonym of Ivan Merzlyakov , ukr. Іван В'ячеславович Мерзляков ; born May 1 . Jul / 14. May  1913 greg. In Kiev , Russian Empire ; † 14. June 1983 in Gerlingen , Federal Republic of Germany ) was a Ukrainian writer , playwright , translator , literary critic and publisher .

Life

Ihor Kostezkyj grew up in Kiev and Vinnytsia and studied stage direction and acting in Leningrad and Moscow during the 1930s and then worked as an actor in the Urals for two years. During the Second World War he came to West Germany as a slave laborer in autumn 1942 , where he stayed after the war. He was a founder and leading theorist of the "Artistic Ukrainian Movement" (MUR, " Мистецький Український Рух " 1945-1948), an organization of Ukrainian writers in German refugee camps in the 1940s, among other things, Ivan Bahrianyi , Ulas Samtschuk and Teodosij Osmatschka belonged.

His first works, still under his mother's maiden name, were published in Vinnytsia in 1941. His prose combined traditional and modernist (expressionists, surrealists, dadaists) elements. During the 1950s and 1960s he was the editor of the illustrated magazine "Ukrajina i Swit" (ukr. Україна і Світ ; dt. Ukraine and the world ). Together with his wife, the German writer and translator Elisabeth Kottmeier (1902–1983), he founded the “Na hori” ( Ukrainian На горі ; Ger . Auf dem Berg ) publishing house in Stuttgart in 1955 Years ago several dozen books, including some outstanding editions of classical world literature, were published in Ukrainian translation. He also worked for Deutschlandfunk and from the mid-1960s wrote plays and radio plays in German. He lived in Schwaikheim near Stuttgart and died at the age of 70 in Gerlingen.

Kostezkyj was a member of the German Shakespeare Society , the Teilhard de Chardin Society and the international PEN Club.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Ihor Kostezkyj in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on January 5, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b article on Kostetsky, Ihor in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 5, 2017
  3. ↑ Article on MUR in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 5, 2017
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Kottmeier in the person database Landeskunde discover online BW; Retrieved January 5, 2017
  5. ↑ Entry on Kottmeier, Elisabeth in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 5, 2017
  6. ↑ Biography on "Ukrainian Literature" ; accessed on January 5, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  7. ^ Ihor Kostezkyj in the personal database of the State Bibliography Baden-Württemberg ; Retrieved January 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kostetskyj, Ihor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merslyakov, Ivan (real name); Костецький, Ігор (Ukrainian); Мерзляков, Іван В'ячеславович (Ukrainian, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, playwright, translator, literary critic and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1983
Place of death Gerlingen , Federal Republic of Germany