Natalja Evgenjewna Gorbanewskaja
Natalja Evgenjewna Gorbanewskaja ( Russian: Наталья Евгеньевна Горбаневская ; * May 26, 1936 in Moscow ; † November 29, 2013 in Paris ) was a Russian poet, translator, human rights activist and member of the Russian dissident movement . She graduated from Leningrad University in the field of "technical writer and translator". She then worked as a librarian and translator in Moscow and founded the secret samizdat magazine Chronicle of Current Events (Russian Хроника текущих событий ).
On August 25, 1968, she took part in the protest rally against the repression of the Prague Spring on Red Square on Lobnoje mjesto . On December 24, 1969, she was arrested and admitted to the Serbsky Science Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry with the diagnosis of “sluggishly growing schizophrenia ” . She was forcibly treated there until February 22, 1972. Even before she was forcibly treated, Gorbanevskaya described the abuse of psychiatry to persecute dissidents in the article Free Medical Aid (Russian : Бесплатная медицинская помощь ), which was self- published in 1971 ( samizdat ). The American singer Joan Baez dedicated the song Natalia to her in 1973 with the lyrics by Shusha Guppy.
On December 17, 1975, Gorbanevskaya came to Paris . She worked in the editorial team of the Russian-language magazine Kontinent and the newspaper Russkaya Mys'l . Since 1999 she has been a member of the college of the Warsaw magazine Neues Polen (Russian: Новая Польша ). In 2005 she was granted Polish citizenship.
On October 28, 2008 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin.
From 2006 to 2013 she was the chairwoman of the Central European Angelus Literature Prize .
literature
- Lexicon of Russian Literature from 1917 , Stuttgart: Kröner 1976; 2nd edition under the title Lexicon of Russian Literature of the 20th Century , Munich: Sagner 1992, ISBN 3-87690-459-5 ; Supplementary volume Bibliographical and Biographical Supplements, Munich: Sagner 2000, ISBN 3-87690-761-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Natalja Evgenjewna Gorbanewskaja in the catalog of the German National Library
- biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russia Today: Russian poet, human rights activist and dissident Natalja Gorbanewskaja died in Paris ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Nov 30, 2013. Retrieved Dec 1, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Gorbanewskaja, Natalja Evgenjewna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Горбаневская, Наталья Евгеньевна (Russian); Gorbaniewska, Natalia (Polish transcription); Gorbanevskaya, Natalya Yevgenyevna (English transcription); Gorbanevskaja, Natal'ja Evgen'evna (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Polish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 2013 |
| Place of death | Paris |