Maya Iossifovna Turovskaya

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Maja Iossifowna Turowskaja (Russian Ма́я Ио́сифовна Туро́вская; born October 27, 1924 in Kharkov ; † March 4, 2019 in Munich ) was a Soviet and Russian theater scholar , film critic , film historian, screenwriter and cultural scientist . She was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (since 1960) and the Union of Filmmakers of the USSR (since 1966). In 1983 she received her doctorate in art studies.

Life

Maja Turovskaya was born in Kharkov. In 1947 she graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow's Lomonosov University and in 1948 the theater studies faculty of the State Institute for Theater Arts GITIS (now the Russian Academy of Theater Arts ), where she studied with Abram Efros , among others .

From 1949 she published essays , including for the magazines Teatr , Sowetski ekran , Iskusstwo kino , Kinowedtscheskije sapiski , Moskowski nabljudatel and Snob . In the 2000s, a series of culture-critical essays appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (translation: Rosemarie Tietze , see web links).

One of her best-known works is the documentary The Ordinary Fascism (1965) by Mikhail Romm , on which she and Yuri Chanjutin worked as screenwriters alongside the director.

In 1969 she was employed as a research assistant at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations . Since 1973 she has worked as a senior research assistant at the Institute for Theory and History of Film (today the State Research Institute for Film Art).

Maja Turovskaya was the author of the retrospective The Cinema of the Totalitarian Era ( Kino totalitarnoj epochi ) at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1989.

In 1998 she was a member of the international jury at the Berlin International Film Festival .

In addition to her work as a screenplay writer, Maja Turowskaja has published numerous monographs on theater, film and the culture of the 20th century.

She was also the initiator and curator of the Berlin-Moscow / Moscow-Berlin exhibition . 1900-1950 (1995-1996).

In 2015, Suby Drakona (lit. The Dragon's Teeth ), a detailed monograph on the 1930s, was published.

Maja Turowskaja has lived in Munich since 1992.

Awards

  • 1994: Prize for German language and literature in Central and Eastern Europe from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • 1997: Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass Prize for German-Russian Understanding
  • 2004: International Stanislavski Prize
  • 2007: Nika in the category "Film Studies and Criticism"
  • 2015: Slon ("Elefant") of the film scholars and film critics guild (Russia) "For the invaluable contribution to film studies and on the occasion of the 90th birthday"

bibliography

  • Olga Leonardowna Knipper- Chekhova, 1868–1959. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1959. (In Russian)
  • Da i net: O cinema i teatre poslednego desjatiletija. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1966. (In Russian)
  • with Yuri Chanjutin: Sergei Jutkewitsch. Berlin: Henschel 1968.
  • Geroi besgeroinogo wremeni. Moscow: Iskusstwo 1971. (In Russian, full text available at wysotsky.com .)
  • Babanova, Marija Ivanovna. Legenda i biografija. Moscow: Iskusstwo 1981. (In Russian)
  • with Felicitas Allardt-Nostitz: Andrej Tarkowskij . Film as Poetry - Poetry as Film. Bonn: Keil 1981. ISBN 3-921591-12-0
  • Well granize iskusstw: Brecht i kino. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1984. (In Russian)
  • 7 1/2, ili Filmy Andreja Tarkowskogo. Moscow: Iskusstwo 1991. (In Russian, full text available at lib.ru. )
  • Antonova, Irina; Merkert, Jörn (ed.). Berlin-Moscow / Moscow-Berlin 1900-1950 . Munich, New York: Prestel 1995. ISBN 3-7913-1488-2
  • Binoculars Moscow: NLO 2003. ISBN 5-86793-222-2 (in Russian)
  • Blow-up. Moscow: MIK 2003. ISBN 5-87902-011-8 (in Russian)
  • Beilenhoff, Wolfgang; Hänsgen, Sabine (ed.). Ordinary fascism. A work book for the film by Michail Romm. Berlin: Vorwerk 8 2009. ISBN 978-3-940384-12-6
  • Suby drakona. Moi 30-е gody. Moscow: Corpus (AST). 2015 ISBN 978-5-17-085235-2 (in Russian)
  • Forward to the past. Russia's fall into the 21st century. Translated from the Russian by Rosemarie Tietze and Annelore Nitschke . Berlin: Vorwerk 8 2016. ISBN 978-3-940384-70-6

Filmography

script

  • 1965: Ordinary Fascism ( Обыкновенный фашизм , with Michail Romm and Juri Chanjutin)
  • 1970: One hour with Kosinzew ( Один час с Козинцевым , with Yuri Chanjutin)
  • 1973: Films and Stars ( Кино и звезды ) (TV series)
  • 1974: Pyotr Martynovich and the Years of Great Life ( Пётр Мартынович и годы большой жизни , with Juri Chanjutin)
  • 1975:… About our theater ( … О нашем театре , with Yuri Chanjutin)
  • 1975: The car and a little statistics ( Автомобиль и немного статистики , with Vitali Axjonow and Yuri Chanjutin)
  • 1989: unpainted self-portrait of a painter ( Ненарисованный автопортрет художника )
  • 1992: The painter and time. Alexander Tyschler ( Художник и время. Александр Тышлер )
  • 1996: Sentimental Grotesque, or: Set Designer at the Jewish Theater ( Сентиментальный гротеск, или Художники Еврейского театра )
  • 1997: The children of Ivan Kuzmich ( Дети Ивана Кузьмича )
  • 1999: Eugene Onegin . Chapter X ( Евгений Онегин. Глава Х )
  • 2000: The MChAT . Dreams of the artistic and generally accessible. First dream: " To start life again" ( МХАТ. Сны о художественном и общедоступном. Сон первый «… Начать жизнь снова…» )

Films with and about Maja Turovskaya

  • 1984: Chekhov in my life (documentary by Vadim Glowna )
  • 1997: East Side Story (as herself)
  • 2015: Splitter ( Oskolki , TV biography on "Rossija - Kultura")
  • 2017: Shadow of War - The Soviet Legacy
  • 2018: War and Peace - German-Soviet Sketches
  • 2018: spring 1948

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Sandomir: Maya Turovskaya, Russian Critic and Documentarian, Dies at 94. In: The New York Times , March 22, 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Keyword "Maja Turowskaja" on www.perlentaucher.de
  3. ↑ Maja Turowskaja on www.imdb.com
  4. ↑ Turowskaja, Maja: "Sowetski w kwadrate", in Kinowedtscheskije sapiski , 100/101, p. 20 (in Russian)
  5. ↑ Website of the State Research Institute for Cinematic Art (in Russian)
  6. ^ Berlinale annual archive 1998
  7. ↑ Interview with Maja Turowskaja on www.pressaru.eu (in Russian)
  8. ↑ Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass Prize on the website of the German-Russian Forum eV
  9. ↑ itogi.ru (in Russian)
  10. ↑ tvkultura.ru (in Russian)
  11. ↑ kinopressa.ru (in Russian)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Turovskaya, Maya Iossifovna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet and Russian theater scholar, film critic, film historian, screenwriter and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkov
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2019
Place of death Munich