Marina Iossifovna Gershenovich

Marina Iossifovna Gershenovich

Marina Iossifovna Gerschenowitsch ( Russian Марина Иосифовна Гершенович , scientific transliteration Marina Iosifovna Geršenovič ; born  September 28, 1960 in Novosibirsk ) is a Russian poet , essayist and translator .

Life

Gerschenowitsch mainly translates poetry from German and English into Russian, for example Mascha Kaléko , Gertrud Kolmar and Ingeborg Bachmann . The book Mascha Kaleko: Žizn 'i stihi (Маша Калеко. Жизнь и стихи / "Mascha Kaleko: Life & Poems") was published in June 2007 on the 100th birthday of Mascha Kaleko in Chișinău in the Depozit en Gros Verlag , making Kaleko the first Time became accessible to Russian readers.

Gerschenowitsch has also been a singer-songwriter since 1978 and plays the guitar. Her poems were set to music in Russia by well-known songwriters such as Elena Frolova, Valentina Ponomareva or Evgenia Loginova and included in their repertoire.

Gerschenowitsch has lived in Düsseldorf since 1998 .

Prizes and awards

• Prize winner of the festival for songwriters in Russia, the Gruschin Festival (Гру́шинский фестиваль / Grušinskij Festival).
• 2004 first prize ("The Golden Crown") at the international poetry competition in London Pushkin in Britain (Пушкин в Британии / Puškin v Britanii)

Works

• Razgovory na rasput'e ( Разговоры на распутье / The Conversations at the Crossroads ), Novosibirsk, 1995 (illustration of the title page by Tatiana Miller (Татьяна Миллер))
• V poiskah angela ( В поисках ангела / In search of an angel ), Saint-Petersburg 2002, ISBN 5-93898-020-8 .
• Kniga na četveryh ( Книга на четверых / The Book for Four ), Saint-Petersburg, 2005 (anthology together with Arkadi Suvorov, Michail Basin and Pavel Schkarin)
• Mascha Kaleko: Žizn 'i stihi ( Маша Калеко. Жизнь и стихи / Mascha Kaleko: Das Leben & Gedichte ), Chisinau, 2007

Web links

• Marina Gerschenowitsch's website