July Chersanovich Kim

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July Kim

Juli Tschersanowitsch Kim (Юлий Черсанович Ким; December 23, 1936 in Moscow ) is a Russian poet , composer , playwright , screenwriter and bard of Korean descent .

biography

He was born in the family of the Korean Kim Cher San and the Russian Nina Walentinovna Vzesvyatskaya. His parents were victims of repression from 1937 to 1938, the father was executed and the mother sentenced as a “traitor to the fatherland” to five years in a camp and three years in exile. In 1958, during the thaw, she was rehabilitated, but had no right to live in Moscow, so the family lived in Malojaroslavz near Kaluga , and then (since 1951) - in Turkmenistan. Kim returned to Moscow in 1954 and joined the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.

During her studies, the institute began to write and perform songs based on her poems (from 1956), where he accompanied himself on a seven-string guitar with a special "gypsy" line. His first concerts took place in Moscow in the early 1960s, the young author quickly rose to become the most popular bards of Russia.

He graduated from the historical-philological faculty (1959), for the distribution of five years worked in Kamchatka, then for several years in Moscow, taught history and social sciences. It was during these years that Juli Kim began writing and performing with the students of author songs with the intermedia and vocal scenes in which all elements of the musical were played.

From 1965 to 1968 he became one of the activists of the right-wing protection movement. In 1966 he married Irina Petequal Anker (1948-1999) - the granddaughter of the oppressed commander YE Jakir. Father Irene, a prominent human rights activist and dissident, was arrested in 14 years. It was only in 32 years that he was released.

In 1968, Kim never left school at the request of a leadership that did not forgive his participation in the rights movement. Since then he has been professionally involved in the creation of songs and plays for theater and cinema. For a long time, the credits of films and posters of performances under the pseudonym “J. Mikhailov ”because the surname“ Kim ”sounded like the top leadership in the dissident Kramochky.

Most of Juli Kim's songs are written in her own music, many of them in collaboration with composers such as Gennady Gladkov, Vladimir Dashkevich and Alexei Rybnikov.

In 1974, Moscow's professional playwrights began working on their own plays.

In 1985 he played an important role in the performances of his play "Noah and His Sons". In the same year he refused to use the alias and started printing under his own name. The first CD of his songs was released on the same stage - "RBA-Whale".

Now Yulia Kima's discography includes more than 20 tracks, audio and video cassettes. Kima's songs have been included in all of the author's anthologies, as well as in many anthologies of modern Russian poetry, including "Stroffy Veka" (compiler Yevhen Yevtushenko, 1994).

Juli Kim is a member of the USSR Filmmakers Union (1987), the Union of Writers (1991) and the Pen Club (1997). He owns about five hundred songs (many of them in films and performances), three dozen plays, and a dozen books. Winner of the “Zolotoy Ostap” award (1998). Winner of the Russian "Bulat Okudschawa" State Prize.

Since 1998 he has lived in Jerusalem and Moscow. Member of the editorial team of the "Jerusalem Magazine". Twice a year he gives the presentation “Jerusalem Magazine” together with its editor, poet Igor Bylsky, and Igor Guberman.

Songs composed in Israel that were written together with the composer and bard Marina Melamed.

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SURNAME Kim, July Chersanovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian poet, composer, playwright, screenwriter and bard
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century