Larissa Robiné

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Larissa Olga Robiné , née Gazan (born April 10, 1918 in Jekaterinoslaw ; † January 5, 2004 in Leipzig ), was a German translator of Ukrainian origin. She was also the editor-in-chief of Po swetu magazine .

Life

Robiné, born in 1918 as the daughter of a teacher, studied biology at the University of Kharkov from 1934 to 1939 and was a teacher of biology and chemistry in Kiev Oblast from 1940 . From 1941 to 1943 she had to work in road construction and was deported to Germany in 1943. She worked as an Eastern worker on an estate.

After the end of the war she worked as an interpreter and driver at a KPD office in Berlin and from July 1945 onwards for the KPD district leadership in Neuruppin . In 1951 she became a teacher for Russian and chemistry in Neuruppin, from 1952 she was a teacher, later a district consultant and director of a school with extended Russian lessons in Brandenburg (Havel) . In 1960 she went to Berlin and from 1960 to 1977 was editor-in-chief of the foreign language magazine Po swetu ("По свету") at the Volk und Wissen publishing house .

From 1962 Robiné worked as a literary translator for Russian and Ukrainian . The columnist and critic René Drommert praised Robiné's translation of the novel “White Guard” by Mikhail Bulgakow: “Larissa Robiné speaks a clear language, carefully taps the sentences for their meaning, but is unpedant, not slavish: a good translator.”

Translations

The first edition of the translation is given:

  • Michailo Stelmach : The upright and the wrong . Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1964.
  • Fjodor Knorre : The adventures of the vagabonds / Yuri Kasakow : The blind hunting dog . Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1964.
  • Andrej Platonow : In the beautiful and grim world (short stories, two volumes). Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1964.
  • Alexej Dorochow : The heart is obvious . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1964.
  • Anatoly Kuznetsov : Babi Yar. A documentary novel . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1968.
  • Mikhail Bulgakov : The White Guard. Novel . Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1969.
  • Leonid Leonow : The thief. Novel . Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1970.
  • Anna M. Nisowa : You started school . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1972.
  • Grigori Konovalov : The Krupnows. A Stalingrad novel . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1972
  • Andrei Platonov: July thunderstorm. 8 stories . Insel, Leipzig 1974.
  • Wassyl Kosatschenko : The white spot . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1974.
  • Maria Pryhara : Cossack Holota and other adventurous stories. Told according to Ukrainian legends . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1975.
  • Sergei Salygin : On the Irtysh. Novella . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1975.
  • Fyodor Gladkow : The birch grove . Insel, Leipzig 1976.
  • Wassyl Semljak : The other Babylon. Novel . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1977.
  • Iwan Bunin : Nocturnal conversation. Stories from the years 1892 to 1911 . Insel, Leipzig 1978.
  • Sergei Salygin: Festival. Narratives . Leipzig, Reclam 1983.
  • Andrei Platonow: The Epiphan locks . Göttingen, Steidl 1998.

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner: Robiné, Larissa . In: dies., Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 723.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung , March 3, 2004.
  2. ↑ René Drommert: Stalin's strange protégé. Mikhail Bulgakov's “White Guard” now also in West Germany . In: Die Zeit , December 25, 1970.
personal data
SURNAME Robiné, Larissa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gazan, Larissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator of Ukrainian origin
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Ekaterinoslav
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2004
Place of death Leipzig