Marietta Sergeyevna Shaginyan
Marietta Shaginyan ( Russian Мариэтта Сергеевна Шагинян ; born March 21 . Jul / 2. April 1888 greg. In Moscow ; † 20th March 1982 ibid) was a Soviet writer of Armenian descent. She studied philosophy, music and natural sciences, but also worked as a textile weaver and lecturer in aesthetics.
In 1924 she published the serial novel Mess-Mend or the Yankees in Petrograd under the pseudonym Jim Dollar and in 1925 metalworker Lory Lane .
Mess-Mend is considered to be the first Soviet detective novel . The original was published as a ten-volume series of booklets, the title pages of which were designed by avant-garde artist Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko .
The asteroid (2144) Marietta was named after her.
Awards
Marietta Schaginjan received the following awards:
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1939, 1958)
- Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (1943)
- Order of the Red Star (1945)
- Member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (1950)
- Stalin Prize (1951)
- Order of Lenin (1967, 1976)
- Order of the October Revolution (1971)
- Lenin Prize (1972)
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1976)
Works in German translation
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A lady's adventure. Novel. Malik-Verlag , Berlin 1924.
- New edition: Verlag der Nation ("Roman for All" series, Vol. 207), Berlin 1972.
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Mess-Mend or The Yankees in Leningrad. New German publishing house , Berlin 1925.
- New edition: Anabas-Verlag, Giessen 1987, ISBN 3-87038-124-8 .
- The hydropower plant. Ring-Verlag, Zurich 1934; Karl Dietz Verlag , Berlin 1952.
- Life and people in Armenia. Across the Soviet country. SWA-Verlag , Berlin 1947.
- On the five-year plan orbits. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1952.
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A trip through Soviet Armenia. German by Felix Loesch. Alexander Böltz translated the verses. Publishing house culture and progress , Berlin 1953.
- With the title Journey through Soviet Armenia ( translated from the Russian by Franz Leschnitzer ): Publishing House for Foreign Language Literature , Moscow 1954.
- About freedom of creation in Soviet art. Soviet Information Service, Vienna 1953.
- Goethe. With a foreword by Walther Victor . From the Russian by Traute Stein. Publishing House Culture and Progress, Berlin 1952; Brücken-Verlag, Essen 1952.
- Fate in your own hands. A doctor's novel. Translated from the Russian by Mimi Barillot. Culture and Progress Publishing House, Berlin 1958.
- The Ulyanov family. Translated from Russian by Hans Herrfurth and Thomas Reschke . Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1959.
- Christmas in Sorrento. Impressions and thoughts. (“Spectrum” series, vol. 63) Translated from the Russian by Arno Specht. Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1974.
Web links
- Literature by and about Marietta Sergejewna Schaginjan in the catalog of the German National Library
- The original Russian version of Mess-Mend or the Yankees in Petrograd
- Short Biography , Graves of Celebrities (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Marietta Schaginjan on the page WarHeroes. Retrieved September 9, 2018 (Russian).
- ^ Marietta Shaginyan on the official website of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved September 9, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ Cover illustration on plakatkontor.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaginjan, Marietta Sergejewna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1982 |
| Place of death | Moscow |