Lew Natanowitsch Lunz

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Lew Natanowitsch Lunz

Lew Natanowitsch Lunz , also Lev Lunc, ( Russian Лев Натанович Лунц ; * April 19 July / May 2,  1901 reg. In St. Petersburg ; † May 8, 1924 in Hamburg ) was a Russian writer and founding member of the Petrograd Serapion Brothers .

Life

Lunz came from a Jewish family. His Lithuanian father Natan Jakowlewitsch Lunz (1871-1934) studied at the University of Dorpat , was a pharmacist and traded in optical devices. The mother Anna Jefimowna, born Rabinowitsch, was a concert pianist . Lunz attended the Petrograd 1st boys' high school, which he left with a gold medal in 1918 after the October Revolution .

Lunz immediately began studying at the historical - philological faculty of the University of Petrograd , which he graduated in 1922 after the reform in the historical department of the Faculty of Social Sciences . He now worked scientifically at the chair for Western European literature . He spoke Spanish , Italian , English , French , Old French and Old Hebrew .

Lunz has been writing since he was 18. He wrote short stories , feature articles , plays , screenplays and theoretical essays. During Lunz's lifetime, his works were published in the USSR and abroad. In 1921 the group of Serapion brothers was founded in Petrograd with Lunz as one of the founding members. According to Lunz 'so-called manifesto "Why we are Serapion brothers". however, Lunz's works were no longer printed.

In 1923 the first signs of heart disease appeared. With a scholarship for a study trip to Spain , he traveled to Germany for therapeutic treatment , where his parents who had emigrated lived. After months in a South German sanatorium, he died of a brain disease in Hamburg's Eppendorf hospital . Necrologists wrote Nina Nikolajewna Berberowa , Juri Nikolajewitsch Tynjanow , Maxim Gorki , Konstantin Alexandrowitsch Fedin and Michail Leonidowitsch Slonimski .

In the 1930s, Lunz's works were forgotten in the USSR. In 1932, Lunz was described in the eleven-volume literature encyclopedia as a militant bourgeois individualist and a typical representative of the pre-revolutionary liberal bourgeois intelligentsia. Books about Lunz have appeared in Serbia and Poland . In 1946 Andrei Alexandrowitsch Schdanow used Lunz 'essay "Why we are Serapion Brothers" as an opportunity to condemn Mikhail Michailowitsch Soschtschenko and the Serapion Brothers as anti-Soviet. In his 1978 novel Meine Diamantenkrone, Valentin Petrovich Katajew mentioned Lunz's comical story of a middle-class family who fled abroad from Soviet power with their diamonds in their clothes brush .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Борисова В. А .: ЛУНЦ, Лев Натанович . In: Краткая литературная энциклопедия . Советская энциклопедия, Moscow 1978 ( feb-web.ru [accessed September 26, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Электронной еврейской энциклопедии: Лунц Лев (accessed September 26, 2018).
  3. ↑ Лунц Лев Натанович: Сочинения (accessed September 26, 2018).
  4. ↑ Viktor Schklowski: The Serapion Brothers. First published in 1921, see: The awakening of the word. Leipzig 1987, pp. 59-61.
  5. ↑ Lev Lunc: Why We Are Serapion Brothers . In: The Serapion Brothers of Petrograd . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1963, p. 7-12 .
  6. ↑ Mikhail Gavrilowitsch Maisel : Лунц Лев Натанович . In: Литературная энциклопедия: В 11 т . tape 6 , 1932, pp. 636 .
personal data
SURNAME Lunz, Lev Natanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лунц, Лев Натанович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer and founding member of the Petrograd Serapion Brothers
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1924
Place of death Hamburg