Yeghic charity

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Yegh Charents on an Armenian postage stamp

Yeghic Charenz ( Armenian Եղիշե Չարենց traditional spelling Եղիշէ Չարենց, in scientific transliteration Ełiše (or Ełišē) Č'arenc ' ; * March 13, 1897 in Kars , Russian Empire , today Turkey ; † November 27, 1937 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR ) was an Armenian poet who died in the course of the Great Terror .

life and work

Monument in Yerevan

Jeghische Tscharenz was born as Jeghische Soghomonjan (Սողոմոնեան, or Ełišē Sołomonean) in Kars , which belonged to the Russian Empire from 1878 to 1921. From 1904 to 1912 he attended school there. In connection with the First World War and the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire , he volunteered for the Russian Army.

The Turkish crimes against the Armenians and his war experiences were also among the subjects of his work. After Komitas Vardapet's death in 1935, he wrote his last major work in 1936, the Requiem Æternam in memory of Komitas .

In June 1937, Yeghische Tscharenz was arrested in the course of the Great Terror. On November 27, 1937, he died in the NKVD prison “under unknown circumstances”.

rehabilitation

In 1954, a year after Stalin's death, he was rehabilitated. His works, including his famous poem Armenia, were included in the curriculum in the Armenian SSR . His works have been translated a. a. into Russian, English, Italian and French. They can be found in libraries on the territory of the former USSR.

In 1937 Tscharenz had secretly informed his wife Isabella from prison that she should only entrust his writings to a friend of the family, the artist Regina Ghasarjan , who would save her from destruction. After Tscharenz's death, Regina Ghazarjan hid and kept many of his manuscripts (a total of 7,000 lines of text, including the Requiem to Komitas , Untitled , Herbstlieder and Nawsike ) in the garden and handed them over to the Charentes Museum for Literature and Arts in the 1950s.

Commemoration

1957 he was awarded the archway of Charents on the edge of the plain of Ararat one by architect Rafajel Israjeljan built designed monument. In 1967 the small town of Lussawan in what is now the Armenian province of Kotajk was renamed after the poet in Charentsawan . In 1975 his house on Mashtots Street in Yerevan was converted into a museum.

Others

Tscharenz is the author of the famous satirical novel "Das Land Nairi" as well as lyrical works such as "Dantesque Legende" and "Die Rasenden Massen". In addition to poems, he translated the literary works of Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin , Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Mayakowski , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Walt Whitman , Maxim Gorki , but also those of Armenian authors such as Howhannes Tumanjan ,   Avetik Issahakjan etc. into Armenian.

Tscharenz was married twice. The daughters Arpenik and Anait come from the second marriage.

Works in German translation

  • Yeghi Charentes: My Armenia. Poems , edited and translated from East Armenian by Konrad Kuhn . Arco-Verlag Wuppertal 2010, ISBN 978-3-938375-31-0 . (Bilingual: Eastern Armenian and German, contains about 40 poems; also: The Armenian poet Jeghische Tscharenz. A biographical sketch , pp. 193–215).

literature

  • Marc Nichanian: The national revolution (= Writers of disaster. Armenian literature in the twentieth century , Vol. 1). Gomidas Institute, Princeton 2002, ISBN 1-903656-09-5 . In it pp. 23–96 and pp. 277–292 on Jeghische Tscharenz.

Footnotes

  1. Marc Nichanian: The national revolution . Gomidas Institute, Princeton 2002. His contribution: The turn towards history and the question of mourning in the poetry of Yeghishe Charents , especially the chapter Charents and history , pp. 44-51.
  2. Marc Nichanian: The national revolution . Gomidas Institute, Princeton 2002, pp. 277-284.
  3. Marc Nichanian: The national revolution . Gomidas Institute, Princeton 2002, p. 40.
  4. Gayane Mkrtchyan: A Labor of Love in “Vision of Death”: RFE / RL gives account of Charents' last years. In: armenianow.com. December 18, 2012, accessed May 8, 2018 .
  5. Հավերժ Չարենցի հետ. In: hhpress.am. March 14, 2009, accessed May 8, 2018 (Armenian).
  6. ^ The Arch of Charents. Retrieved January 1, 2020 (American English).
  7. Егише Чаренц (Согомонян Егише Абгарович). In: Кавказский Узел. August 27, 2013, accessed March 10, 2020 (Russian).

Web links

Commons : Jeghische Tscharenz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files