Yuri Timofejewitsch Galanskow

Yuri Timofejewitsch Galanskow ( Russian Юрий Тимофеевич Галансков ; born June 19, 1939 in Moscow , † November 4, 1972 in Mordovia ) was a Soviet poet and dissident .

Life

Galanskow, son of a working-class family, worked early on as a photo timekeeper in a standardization station, as a laboratory assistant in a toolmaker's technical center, as a lighting technician in a theater and as an unskilled worker in a literature museum. In 1960 he began a correspondence course in history at the Lomonosov University in Moscow , from which, however, he was excluded after the second semester. In 1965 he began an evening course in archivists at the Moscow State Institute of History and Archival Studies .

His poet activity began Galanskow as an activist of the informal poetry readings on Moscow Mayakovsky Square (1959-1961). His poetry , often in rhythmic prose , was characterized by powerful images with which he screamed out hopelessness and freed himself from threatening visions of violence.

Galanskov's political views were determined by elements of anarchic pacifism , radical anti-communism and solidarism, so that he later joined the Russian Solidarist League. As a consistent supporter of non-violence , he joined the initiative to found the World Union of Fighters for General Disarmament , for which he wrote a program (1960–1961). In 1961 he became a member of the group that edited the samizdat anthology Phoenix No. 1 . It contained his poems A human manifesto and proletarians of all countries, unite! as well as works by Boris Pasternak and Natalja Gorbanewskaja . Because of this publication, Galansov was held in a psychiatric clinic for several months . The 1962 volume was published abroad in Grani magazine No. 52. Phoenix No. 2 (Phoenix-66) issued Galanskow alone. On December 5, 1965, he took part in the Glasnost Meeting in Moscow. In the summer of 1966 he organized the Moscow opposition youth and held a new meeting against the unconstitutional political power in Pushkin Square.

Galansov was arrested on January 19, 1967, and sentenced to 7 years of aggravated imprisonment on January 12, 1968, together with Alexander Ginsburg , whom he had helped with the work on the White Paper on the Sinyawski - Daniel Trial. He served his sentence in Camp No. 17 in Mordovia . He died of blood poisoning after a gastric rupture operation in the camp hospital and was buried on the camp grounds. In 1991 his bones were transferred to the Kotlyakovo cemetery in Moscow.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ûrij Timofeevič Galanskov (1939-1972) (accessed June 1, 2016).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Juri Timofejewitsch Galanskow (1939–1972) (Russian, accessed June 1, 2016).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Poetry of Moscow University: Yuri Galanskow (Russian, accessed June 1, 2016).
4. ↑ Wolfgang Kasack : Lexicon of Russian Literature from 1917 (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 451). Kröner, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-520-45101-8 .
5. ^ Juri Galanskow (Russian, accessed June 1, 2016).
6. ↑ Galanskow Ju. T. (Russian, accessed June 1, 2016).
7. ^ AA Amalrik : Letters from a Dissident (Russian, accessed June 1, 2016).
8. ^ Galanskow Yuri Timofejewitsch (Russian, accessed June 1, 2016).

Web links

• Literature by and about Juri Timofejewitsch Galanskow in the catalog of the German National Library