Lidija Kornejewna Chukovskaya

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Lidija Korneevna Tschukovskaja ( Russian Лидия Корнеевна Чуковская ; scientific transliteration : Lidija Korneevna Čukovskaja; * March 11th July / March 24th  1907 greg .; † February 8th, 1996 ) was a Russian critic, novelist, poet Life memories.

Life

Lidija Kornejewna Tschukowskaja is the daughter of the well-known children's book author Kornei Tschukowski . She was married to the physicist Matwei Bronstein (1906–1938).

Lidija Tschukowskaja was friends for many years with the poet Anna Akhmatova , whose poems and prose she compiled. During the Second World War she recorded poems by Anna Akhmatova, which she read to her and destroyed for her own safety - this is how part of Akhmatova's lyrical work survived.

The time of the Great Terror in the Soviet Union under Stalin shaped her work. From 1949 and 1957 she worked on her autobiographical novel Untertauchen . Since she had been noticed too often as a fearless critic of the regime, her novel was not allowed to be published in the Soviet Union; it was finally published in 1972 by a New York publisher. As a result, she was harassed even more than before; a professional ban was imposed. Nonetheless, she succeeded in getting a new edition of the children's book Igra (Eng. "Game") by the murdered writer Daniil Charms , which made Daniil Charms known again in the Soviet Union as a children's book author. In 1974 she was expelled from the Writers' Union of the Soviet Union because of her commitment to Alexander Solzhenitsyn . Lev Kopelev stood up for them.

Chukovskaya was buried next to her father in the cemetery of the prominent settlement Peredelkino .

Prizes and awards

Works

Collected Works

  • Sobranie sočinenij . Gudʹjal Press, Moscow 2000:
    • T. 1: Povesti, vospominanija .
    • T. 2: Process isključenija, publicistika, otryvki iz dnevnika, stichotvorenija, pisʹma .

Single issues

  • Opustelyj dom. Povest ' . Librairie des Cinq continents, Paris 1965.
  • Spusk pod vodu . Izdatelstvo im. Čechova, New York 1972.
  • Foreword to Vladimir Glocer: Slovo probivaet sebe dorogu. Sbornik statej i dokumentov ob AI Solženicyne, 1962−1974 . Russky Putʹ, Moscow 1998.

To Anna Akhmatova

  • Zapiski ob Anne Akhmatovoj . YMCA-Press, Paris 1976 (writings on Anna Akhmatova).
  • Zapiski ob Anne Achmatovoj, v trech tomach . Soglasie, Moscow 1997 (writings on Anna Akhmatova in three volumes):
    • T. 1: 1938-1941 .
    • T. 2: 1952-1962 .
    • T. 3: 1963-1966 .
  • Otkrytoe slovo . Izdatelstvo Chronika, New York 1976.
  • Anna Andreevna Akhmatova: Poems and Prose (Edited by Boris Gregorjewitsch Drujan, Lenizdat, Leningrad 1976. The edition was actually compiled by Lidja Tschukowskaja, but in 1976 her name was no longer allowed to appear publicly in the USSR.)

German translations

  • An empty house. Novel . Diogenes, Zurich 1967. New edition 1982 under the original title Sofja Petrovna .
  • Immersion. Roman , with an afterword by Hans Jürgen Balmes. Translated from the Russian by Swetlana Geier . Diogenes-Verlag, Zurich 1975; New edition: Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03820-013-0 .
  • Notes on Anna Akhmatova . Narr, Tübingen 1987.

literature

  • Bella Hirshorn: Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya. A tribute . University Press, Melbourne 1987.
  • Beth Holmgren: Women's works in Stalin's time. On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1993.
  • Annette Julius: Lidija Čukovskaja. Life and work . Sagner, Munich 1995.
  • Lev Kopelev: Prohibit the prohibitions! In Moscow in search of the truth. Translated from the Russian by Heddy Pross-Weerth and Heinz-Dieter Mendel. With a foreword by Max Frisch . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1977 (therein: Plea for Lydia Tschukowskaja. To the Moscow Writers' Union ).
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn: On the inflexibility of the spirit . Die Arche, Zurich 1974.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Jörg Himmelreich : The blissful wound of memory. Lydia Tschukowskaja's touching novel “Unterauchen” from 1972 is now available in a new edition after a long time. In: NZZ . March 13, 2015 .;

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personal data
SURNAME Chukovskaya, Lidija Kornejewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Чуковская, Лидия Корнеевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian critic, writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1907
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1996