Yuri Wassiljewitsch Bondarew
Yuri Wassiljewitsch Bondarew ( Russian Юрий Васильевич Бондарев ; born March 15, 1924 in Orsk ; † March 29, 2020 in Moscow ) was a Soviet or Russian writer .
Career
Bondarew took part in the German-Soviet War . From 1944 he was a member of the Communist Party (then WKP (B)) and graduated from the Maxim Gorki Literature Institute in 1951 .
Ethical issues were usually at the center of his work . His first volume of short stories На большой реке ("On the Great River") was published in 1953. His novel The Battalions Ask For Fire ( Батальоны просят огня , 1957) was adapted as a television series in 1985, the novel The Last Salvos ( Последние залпы , 1959) was made into a film for the cinema in 1961. He was also involved in the script of the five-part cinema epic Liberation .
On August 31, 1973, an open letter from a group of well-known Soviet writers, co-signed by Bondarev , appeared in the party newspaper Pravda , who criticized the "anti-Soviet actions and appearance of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov ".
Bondarew was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1984 to 1989 . In the 1990s he belonged to the communist-nationalist opposition to Boris Yeltsin's reforms and signed a. a. A word to the people , a manifesto that turned against perestroika . He publicly compared the policy of perestroika of the USSR to an "airplane that flies without knowing where". In 1994 he refused to accept the order of friendship between peoples on the occasion of his 70th birthday of President Boris Yeltsin.
Bondarev died in Moscow in the spring of 2020, two weeks after his 96th birthday.
Awards
- Medal of Bravery (1943, 1944)
- Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (1967)
- Order of Lenin (1971, 1984)
- Lenin Prize (1972)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1974)
- State Prize of the USSR (1977, 1983)
- Order of the October Revolution (1981)
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1984)
- Order of the Great Patriotic War (1985)
bibliography
- «Юность командиров» (1956)
- «Батальоны просят огня» (1957)
- «Последние залпы» (1959)
- «Tisina» (1962, filmed in 1964)
- "Двое" (continuation of the novel "Тишина"; 1964)
- «Родственники» (1969)
- «Горячий снег» (1969)
- «Берег» (1975)
- «Выбор» (1980)
- «Игра» (1985)
- «Iskushina» (1991)
- «Непротивление» (1996)
- «Бермудский треугольник» (1999)
- «Без милосердия» (2004)
German translations
- 1962: Forget who you are. Novel, translated by Josef Hahn ("Тишина")
- 1965: The two. Novel, translated by Josef Hahn («Двое»)
- 1966: The last volleys. Novel, translated by Helmut Liebknecht («Последние залпы»)
- 1971: Hot snow. Novel, translated by Juri Elperin («Горячий снег»)
- 1977: The shore. Novel, translated by Yuri Elperin ("Берег")
- 1983: The choice. Novel, translated by Waltraud and Wolfram Schroeder («Выбор»)
- 1989: The battalions ask for fire. Novel, translated by Dieter Pommerenke ("Батальоны просят огня")
literature
- Marion Spöring: The position of the povest '"Rodstvenniki" by Jurij Bondarev in the author's complete works , Hamburg: Buske 1982 (Hamburg contributions for Russian teachers , volume 23), ISBN 3-87118-513-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Juri Wassiljewitsch Bondarew in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://tass.ru/kultura/8109675
- ↑ Pravda , August 31, 1973, p. 3
- ↑ 75 years after the end of the Second World War: Trench truth by front author Yuri Bondarew , Sputniknews, April 8, 2020
- ↑ Yuri Bondarew on warheroes.ru. Retrieved September 14, 2018 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bondarew, Yuri Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Бондарев, Юрий Васильевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet or Russian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 2020 |
| Place of death | Moscow |