Ivan Dratsch

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Ivan Fedorowytsch Dratsch ( Ukrainian Иван Федорович Драч ; born October 17, 1936 in Telischynzi , Kiev Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ; † June 19, 2018 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, playwright, political activist and civil rights activist.

Life

Even in his youth, Dratsch worked as a trainer for the local Komsomol committee and taught Russian language and literature at the local school. His first poems were published in a local newspaper in 1951. Since he could not finish his studies at the Philological Faculty, which he had begun in Kiev, due to political differences, he studied script and dramaturgy in Moscow. In the following years he was actively involved in public life in Ukraine, as he wrote critical essays on the present in addition to volumes of poetry and scripts . Increasingly, he also appeared as a screenwriter; so he wrote the script for the 1983 film adaptation of the story Evenings on the Hamlet near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol, as well as for other stories by Gogol and other films. In 2006 he received the title Hero of Ukraine .

Political career

Since his language, which was rich in metaphors and neologisms, had strayed far from the requirements of socialist realism and had contacts with well-known political dissidents, he was under strong criticism. However, after he had declared in a public letter in 1966 that he would give up contact with dissident circles, he was installed as the Soviet cultural representative. At the end of the 1980s he was politically very active in Ukraine and one of the initiators of the Ruch organization (today: National People's Party of Ukraine), of which he was chairman from 1989 to 1992. His aim was to establish a sovereign Ukrainian state. In addition, he has been elected Member of Parliament of Ukraine with two re-elections since 1990.

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In his numerous collections of poetry, the motif of the sun appears again and again, for him to regard it as “the embodiment of the human longing for truth, beauty, boldness, justice, tenderness, etc. [...] because man has the quality of looking at the sky because he is not an animal. ”He has also dealt with those longings of humans in his literary-critical articles and essays in which a. discusses the theories of Skovoroda and Pablo Neruda . He was considered one of the main representatives of the sixties (Šistdesjatnyky), whose literature in the 1960s was marked by the indictment against the father generation who lived without resistance under Stalinism. His main literary themes at the time were the call for the lack of truth and sincerity in the socialist system.

The death of Shevchenko : In his lyrical symphony from 1962, he describes the poet's death as the beginning of his immortality. The plot is divided into two parts: cherry red blossom and cherry red wind . In the first part, the suffering and torment of the Ukraine are presented according to Shevchenko , who can no longer intervene in the situation of his homeland. In the second part he shows the necessity of getting involved in the struggle to improve the situation after crisis and suffering. Ultimately, this could only lead to victory and give Ukraine the independence it has longed for.

Books of poetry (selection)

  • 1962 Sonjašnyk (Соняшник)
  • 1962 Vitčyzna (Вітчизна)
  • 1965 Protuberanzi Sercja (Протуберанцi Серця)
  • 1967 Balady budniv (Балади буднів)
  • 1972 Do Džerel (До Джерел)
  • 1974 Korin 'i krona (Корiнь i крона)
  • 1976 Kyïvs'ke nebo (Киïвське небо)
  • 1978 Sonjačnyj Fenyks (Сонячний Феникс)
  • 1980 Amerykans'kyj Zošyt (Американський Зошит)
  • 1981 Šablja i chustyna (Шабля i хустина)
  • 1980 Zorja i Smert 'Pablo Nerudy (Зоря i смерть Пабло Неруди)
  • 1988 Chram Soncja (Храм Сонця)

literature

  • Dončika, V., Istorija ukraїns'koї literatury XX stolittja, Kyїv, 1998
  • Drač, Ivan, Duchovnyj meč, Moscow, 1988
  • Dratsch, Iwan, Ukrainian horses over Paris, Berlin, 1976
  • Horbatsch, Anna-Halja , Ukraine in the Mirror of its Literature, Reichelsheim, 1997
  • Kolesnyk, Petro J., Istorija ukraїns'koї literatury, tom vos'mij, Kyїv, 1968
  • Luckyj, George, Ukrainian Literature in the twentieth century, Toronto, 1992

Web links

Commons : Ivan Drach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ukrainian poet Ivan Drach dies at 81. In: ukrinform.net. Retrieved June 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Dončika, V., Istorija ukraїns'koї literatury XX stolittja, Kyїv, 1998, pp. 136f.
  3. ↑ http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CR%5CDrachIvan.htm
  4. ↑ Dratsch, Iwan, Ukrainian horses over Paris, Berlin, 1976, p. 93
  5. ↑ Drač, Ivan, Duchovnyj meč, Moscow, 1988
  6. ↑ Luckyj, George, Ukrainian Literature in the twentieth century, Toronto, 1992, pp.
  7. ↑ Horbatsch, Anna-Halja, The Ukraine in the mirror of their literature, Reichelsheim, 1997, p. 119
  8. ↑ Kolesnyk, Petro J., Istorija ukraїns'koї literatury, tom vos'mij, Kyїv, 1968, pp. 302f.
personal data
SURNAME Dratsch, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dratsch, Ivan Fedorowytsch (full name); Драч, Иван Федорович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, playwright, political activist and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Telischynzi , Kiev Oblast , Ukrainian SSR
DATE OF DEATH 19th June 2018
Place of death Kiev , Ukraine