Maximilian Schick
Maximilian Schick ( Russian Максимилиан Яковлевич Шик ; born April 12 . Jul / 24. April 1884 greg. In Moscow , † 8. February 1968 ) was a Russian-German literary scholar and translator.
Life
Schick lived in Berlin from 1892 to 1907 , where he studied at the Friedrich Wilhelms University until 1906 . He was a member of Herwarth Walden's "Association for Art" and was close to the Moscow Art Theater in 1906 when it made a guest appearance in Germany.
From 1907 he lived again in Moscow and worked as a ballet critic. During the Second World War he was involved in the NKFD .
He was also important as a translator into German. He was Gorky's first German translator and translated poetry by Pushkin , Lermontow , Taras Shevchenko , Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, as well as prose by Alexei Tolstoy , Leonid Leonow , Konstantin Paustowski and Valentin Katajew , among others .
Translations
- Berdy Kerbabaev : Aisoltan. From the land of white gold. Moscow 1952. Stalin Prize 1951.
- Re-seals . Foreword by Franz Leschnitzer . Berlin: VEB Verl. Kultur u. Progress, 1960. (Collection of Russian authors) DNB 454339569
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea von Hülsen-Esch and Gerhard Finckh (eds.): The storm. Essays . Wuppertal: Von-der-Heydt-Museum, 2012. ISBN 978-3-89202-082-0 , p. 442.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schick, Maximilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шик, Максимилиан Яковлевич |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1968 |
| Place of death | Moscow |