Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin

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Konstantin Fedin (left) in conversation with Gustav Just and FC Weiskopf , 1954

Konstantin Fedin ( Russian Константин Александрович Федин ; born February 12 . Jul / 24. February  1892 greg. In Saratov ; † 15. July 1977 in Moscow ) was a Russian / Soviet writer and actor .

Life

Fedin came from a humble background. His father owned a stationery shop in Saratov. From childhood on, Fedin loved to write. From 1901 he attended business school. In the fall of 1905 he took part in a school strike with his entire class . In 1907 he fled to Moscow and returned his violin to the pawnshop . His father brought him back. Since he did not want to work in his father's shop, he attended the commercial school in Koslow . According to his father's wish, in 1911 he began studying at the Moscow Trade Institute in the economics department. In 1913 he published small satires in the magazine Nowy Satirikon . After the third year of study, he was sent to Germany in the spring of 1914 to improve his knowledge of German . He went to Nuremberg and studied German.

After the outbreak of the First World War , Fedin was arrested on his return journey in Dresden and interned in civilian terms because of his Russian citizenship . During this time, Fedin lived in various cities, such as Zittau , Dresden, Görlitz , Zwickau and Nuremberg, gave language lessons and appeared as an actor. There he came into contact with German Expressionists.

Fedin was only allowed to return to his homeland in 1918 as part of a prisoner exchange. In September 1918 he returned to Moscow and worked in the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR . In the Russian Civil War he lived in 1919 in Syzran , where he was secretary of the Executive Committee and the newspaper Sysraner Sysraner communard and the magazine Otkliki edited . In October 1919 he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to Petrograd . He served in the political department of the Bashkir Cavalry Division until he was transferred to the editorial office of the 7th Army. He joined the CPSU .

Fedin set a monument to this period in his novel Cities and Years (Города и годы) , published in 1924 . In 1931, suffering from tuberculosis , he spent a spa stay in Davos , which was made possible for him by Gorky (from this experience he wrote the novel Sanatorium Arktur (Санаторий Арктур) ), and then in Sankt Blasien . Fedin had been a member of the literary group Serapion Brothers since spring .

Fedin also worked as a lecturer at the Maxim Gorki Institute for Literature , where authors were trained. One of his students was Yuri Trifonov , whom he discovered and promoted.

In 1958, Fedin was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . The Soviet Society for Friendship with the GDR , founded in 1958, elected Fedin as its chairman. In 1959 the Writers' Union of the USSR also elected him chairman. In 1965 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold in the GDR .

In August 1973 he was a co-signer of an open letter published in the party newspaper Pravda by a group of well-known Soviet writers in connection with the "anti-Soviet acts and the appearance of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov ".

In 1949 Fedin received the Stalin Prize . In 1967 he was awarded the Johannes R. Becher Medal in the GDR . In 1982 he was made an honorary citizen of Zittau posthumously . Until the German reunification , the 8th Polytechnic High School in Zittau was named after him and was officially called “8. POS  - Konstantin Fedin High School ”. In 1980 the river cruise ship " Konstantin Fedin " was built in the GDR for the Volga shipping company . There was a Konstantin-Fedin-Straße in both Dresden- Zschertnitz and Zittau.

Works

Konstantin Fedin (Russian postage stamp, 1992)
  • Cities and Years (Города и годы) . 1924
  • The brothers (Братья) . 1928
  • Sanatorium Arctur (Санаторий Арктур) . 1940
  • Early joys (Первые радости) . 1945
  • An unusual summer (Необыкновенное лето) . 1948
  • The flame (Костёр) . 1961
  • Cities and years. New Malik Verlag, Kiel 1988, ISBN 978-3-89029-031-7 .

Honors, prizes

Web links

Commons : Konstantin Fedin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Большая российская энциклопедия: ФЕ́ДИН Константин Александрович (accessed November 1, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b Spartacus Educational: Konstantin Fedin (accessed November 1, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b c d ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOVIET WRITERS: Fedin, Konstantin Aleksandrovich (accessed November 1, 2019).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Constantine A. Fedin, Soviet Author, Head Of Writers Union . In: The New York Times . July 18, 1977 ( [1] [accessed November 1, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b c d Вячеслав ДЬЯКОНОВ: ПУТЬ В БОЛЬШУЮ ЛИТЕРАТУРУ (Саратовские вести) (accessed November 1, 2019).
  6. ↑ a b c d e Landeshelden: Федин Константин Александрович (accessed on November 1, 2019).
  7. ^ High honor for Konstantin Fedin , In: Neues Deutschland , May 21, 1965, p. 1.
  8. ↑ Pravda, August 31, 1973, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Fedin, Konstantin Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Федин, Константин Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Saratov
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 1977
Place of death Moscow