Kirill Felixowitsch Medvedev
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Kirill Felixowitsch Medvedev ( Russian Кирилл Феликсович Медведев ; born June 19, 1975 in Moscow ) is a Russian poet, essayist, translator and political activist. He is the founder of the Free Marxist Publishing House . He is also the singer and guitarist of the Arkadi Koz group .
Life
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Kirill Medvedev was born in Moscow in 1975. From 1992 to 1995 he studied at the historical faculty of Lomonosov University in Moscow . In 2000 he graduated from the Maxim Gorki Literature Institute . He published articles and reviews, etc. a. in the Russian Journal , the Independent Newspaper and the Bulletin Literary Life of Moscow . He also published several translations of modern English-language literature (including two works by Charles Bukowski : the novel Women and a volume of poetry).
In 2002 his poems were nominated for the Andrei Bely Literature Prize. In 2004 he wrote some songs based on poems by Alexander Brener from the book Orfelsinen für Palestine . In 2008 he founded the Free Marxist Publishing House . He works with the artist group Was tun and is involved in the Almanach Translit in an advisory capacity .
Since 2010 he has performed as a singer and guitarist in the group Arkadi Koz , named after the Marxist and translator of the International into Russian Arkadi Koz . He appears there with revolutionary songs.
The Russian literary critic Lev Oborin called him in 2017 "the most famous young Russian poet abroad".
Awards
- 2012: Russian activist art (second prize) in the field of actions in urban space , awarded as part of the MediaUdar festival
- 2014: Andrei Bely Literature Prize for his book Marsch ins Rathaus in the field of poetry .
Views
Medvedev was a member of the socialist movement "Forward" . He later joined the Russian Socialist Movement with other activists from Forward .
He participated in 2009 in the campaign to defend the House of Artists in Moscow and supported the struggle to preserve the forest of Khimki (2010-2011).
In February 2013 he recorded a video message for the project against homophobia in support of the LGBT community.
family
Medvedev is the son of the Russian journalist Felix Nikolajewitsch Medvedev and the great-grandson of Zoltán Pártos, a Hungarian medic who translated the work of Sigmund Freud into Hungarian. Zoltán Pártos was later a member of the Comintern and moved with his children to Moscow in 1922, where he worked as a doctor. He is also the great-grandson of the Hungarian writer Sándor Bródy .
Fonts
- Wsjo plocho. ( Everything is bad ), Verlag OGI, 2002, ISBN 5-94282-061-9 .
- Wtorschenie ( The Burglary ), ARGO-RISK Verlag, 2002, ISBN 5-94128-067-X .
- Texts that were published without the author's knowledge, Verlag NLO, 2007.
- 3%. Poems , Free Marxist Publishing House, 2007.
- Reakzija woobschtsche ( general reaction: articles, reports on actions, essays, interviews ), Free Marxist Publishing House, 2007.
- Schit dolgo, umeret molodym ( Long live, die young ), Translit, Free Marxist Publishing House, Saint Petersburg , 2011
- Pochod na Meriju ( March to the Town Hall ), Free Marxist Publishing House, Translit, 2014, ISBN 978-5-98063-021-8 .
- Antifaschism dlja wsech , Free Marxist Publishing House, 2017, ISBN 978-5-9907804-6-0 .
Translations of Medvedev's writings
- Tekstid, mis ilmusid autori loata , Tuum, Tallinn , 2008, translation into Estonian by Igor Kotjuh , ISBN 978-9985-9806-8-2 .
- It's No Good: poems / essays / actions. Ugly Duckling Press, 2012. Translated into English by Keith Gessen, Mark Krotov, Corey Mead and Bela Shayevich. ISBN 978-1-933254-94-4 .
- Everything is bad. Leesmagazijn, 2014, Dutch translation by Pieter Boulogne, ISBN 978-94-91717-09-3 .
- Biopolitiek . Leesmagazijn, 2017, Dutch translation by Pieter Boulogne, ISBN 978-94-91717-45-1 .
- Anti-fascism for everyone. Essays, poems, manifestos. A. d. Soot. by Matthias Meindl and Georg Witte . Matthes & Seitz , Berlin, 2020, ISBN 978-3-95757-626-2 .
Web links
- Kirill Medvedev's website
- Arkadi Koz group
- Kirill Medvedev on www.litkarta.ru (Russian)
- Alexei Zwetkow: Interview with Kirill Medvedev. (No longer available online.) In: www.rabkor.ru. July 1, 2009, archived from the original ; accessed on February 22, 2020 (Russian).
- Biography as a candidate for the 2012 elections
Individual evidence
- ^ Official website of the Arkadi Koz group
- ↑ Mikhail Boiko: Interview with Kirill Medvedev
- ↑ Каких современных российских писателей знают за рубежом? ( Russian ) thequestion.ru. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
- ↑ Премия Андрея Белого: Лауреаты по годам ( Russian ) www.belyprize.ru. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
- ↑ Против гомофобии. Кирилл Медведев ( Russian ) Грани.ру. 28 февраля 2013 года.
- ↑ Feliks Medvedev: Как я “переиграл” Мессинга (Russian) ( Memento from November 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Norma Schneider: It's easy to fascize yourself , Review, Neues Deutschland , February 15, 2020 (link for a fee)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Medvedev, Kirill Felixowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Медведев, Кирилл Феликсович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian poet, essayist, translator, political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |