Ivan Sergeyevich Schmelev

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Ivan Schmelev

Ivan Sergejewitsch Schmeljow ( Russian Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв ; * September 21 July / October 3,  1873 greg. In Moscow ; † June 24, 1950 in Bussy-en-Othe , Yonne department ) was a Russian writer.

Life and aftermath

Shmelev was born the fourth of five children to a Moscow merchant family, grew up in a strictly religious atmosphere and studied from 1894 to 1898 at the law faculty of Moscow University . After a first literary failure, he became a tax inspector in the province of Vladimir . Here he found the material for his stories. From 1918 to 1922 he lived with his wife in Alushta in the Crimea . His only son, Sergei, who served in General Wrangel's army, was arrested and shot in the Crimea.

During the emigration he created the works in which he made the traditional religious order of old Russia an ideal and describes it in ever new ways of approach. His best-known work is "The Sun of the Dead". Thomas Mann dealt intensively with the book. Schmeljow was at the beginning of the 1930s as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature .

With the fall of the Soviet Union , Shmelev was rediscovered in Russia. In 2000 his remains and those of his wife were transferred from the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois to the Donskoy monastery . In 2006, Alexander Konstantinowitsch Petrov created an animated film based on Schmeljow's story Meine Liebe ( Моя любовь , Moja ljubow ).

Works

  • The sun of the dead . Translated by Käte Rosenberg, S. Fischer, Berlin 1925
  • The waiter . Translated by Kate Rosenberg. S. Fischer, Berlin 1927
  • Love in Crimea. Translated from Rebecca Candreia. Reclam RUB 7108-7109, Leipzig 1930; again in The Great Masters. European storytellers of the 20th century, 1st ed. Rolf Hochhuth . Bertelsmann Lesering , Gütersloh 1960, pp. 380-466
  • Early spring . Translated from Rebecca Candreia. Rotapfel, Erlenbach ZH no year [1931]
  • Report from a former human . Eckart-Verlag, Berlin 1932
  • The road of joy .
  • The light of the spirit and the devil's showroom . Scherpe, Krefeld undated
  • Vanya in holy Moscow . Herder, Freiburg 1958
  • The empty chalice . Translated by Hans Ruoff , Ellermann, 1961
  • Our happiness is dark . Translated by Rudolf Karmann. Herder, Freiburg 1965
  • The farewell to Danila Stepanych . Herder, Freiburg 1973
  • Ossja, the painter. Signal, Baden-Baden 1975

literature

Web links

Commons : Ivan Shmelyov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexej Baskakov: Thomas Mann and Iwan Schmeljow. Interpretation of an acquaintance. In: Thomas Mann Yearbook. , Vittorio Klostermann, Vol. 13, 2000, pp. 133-146
  2. ↑ Tatjana Marcenko: Ivan Šmelev and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Journal of Slavonic Studies. 2001, Volume 46, Issue 4, pages 377-389. doi: 10.1524 / slaw.2001.46.4.377
  3. ^ Käte Rosenberg (1883–1960) was a cousin of Katia Mann . See: Thomas Mann: Letters. , S. Fischer, 2002, p. 782, note 22, ISBN 978-3100483706
personal data
SURNAME Schmeljow, Iwan Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шмелёв, Иван Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1950
Place of death Bussy-en-Othe , Yonne department