Julia Vladimirovna Drunina

Yulia Vladimirovna Drunina (also Julia or Yulia Drunina ; Russian Юлия Владимировна Друнина [ listen ^{? / I} ], scientific. Transliteration jʉlʲɪjə vlɐdʲimʲɪrəvnə drunʲɪnə * 10. May 1924 in Moscow ; † 21st November 1991 in the rayon Podolski in Moscow) was a Soviet Poet of Russian origin.

Life

Her father was a history teacher , her mother a music teacher and librarian . Julija wrote her first poem at the age of 11 and won a poetry competition at the end of the 1930s that involved publishing the text in a newspaper. In 1941 she went to the front as a medic in the Great Patriotic War and was seriously wounded in 1943. Since she was initially declared unfit for service, she applied to the Moscow Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and was rejected there. She returned to the front and was wounded again in November 1944, after which she was allowed to enroll as a war veteran at the Literature Institute .

Also in 1944 she married her former classmate Nikolai Starschinow and in 1946 had their only daughter Jelena. In 1947 she took part in the First All-Union Meeting of Young Authors. Her first volume of poetry, published in 1948, was regularly followed by other books. In 1960 she divorced and married the screenwriter and director Aleksei Kapler , 20 years her senior , whom she first met in 1956 and who died in 1979. She welcomed the policies of Gorbachev and was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . In 1991, during the August coup in Moscow , she was one of the defenders of the White House , but was sobered by the collapse of the Soviet Union and eventually committed suicide . She was buried next to Alexei Kapler in Staryj Krym .

reception

Translations into German

Texts by her have appeared in German broadcasts by Annemarie Bostroem , Helmut Preißler and Uwe Berger since 1963 . In 1967 she appeared together with other Soviet poets at a reading in the Berlin City Library . In 2016, Who Says Don Quixote Died? with a selection of her poems.

Reviews

“… That's how she collects moments in her poems, inconspicuous and mostly unpathetic, sometimes carried by a flash of faint irony. Woven in the simple stanzas are experiences: that no one owes anything to another, that we sometimes lose the most important thing without noticing it ourselves, that it is easier for us to forgive the enemy what seems unforgivable with a friend. But also - when the girl became a soldier and the soldier became a woman - like a bullet knocked snow off the branches, and every fall of flakes will be a lifelong reminder of this. "

- Henry-Martin Klemt in New Germany

Honors

The small planet (3804) Drunina (diameter 9 kilometers), discovered in 1969 by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Tschernych , was named after Julija Drunina.

Works

• Yulia Vladimirovna Drunina: Who said Don Quixote died? Ed .: Frank Vieweg. Nora, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86557-402-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Henry-Martin Klemt: Life - these are minutes . In: Neues Deutschland (supplement "books to give away") . November 26, 2016, ISSN  0323-3375 , p. 4 .