Nelly Wacker

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nelly Wacker ( Russian: Нелля Рейнгольдовна Ваккер, scientific transliteration Nellja Rejngol'dovna Vakker; born October 20, 1919 in Hohenberg near Simferopol , Crimea ; † March 26, 2006 in Cologne ) was a Russian-German writer and translator .

Life

Nelly Wacker, from a Black Sea German originating family, attended a German boarding school where in Simferopol on the Crimean located village of Spat . Then she began studying at the Pedagogical University in Engels , the capital of the Volga German Republic . From 1939 she worked as a teacher for German and Russian in Azerbaijan ; after the German invasion of the Soviet Union , she was deported to Kazakhstan in 1941 . It was only in the 1960s that she was able to resume her studies in education ; she finished it in 1965 as an external graduate at the Pedagogical Institute in Omsk / Siberia . Then she worked again as a teacher in the Kazakh region of Kustanai and later in Pavlodar until her retirement in 1974 . 1993 moved it to Germany . She spent the last years of her life in Cologne .

Nelly Wacker's literary work consists mainly of stories and poems that have appeared in various Russian-German magazines since 1962 and later also in book form. She also translated from Russian and Kazakh . She had been a member of the Soviet Writers' Union since 1973 .

Works

  • My peers , Alma-Ata 1969
  • The magic pen , Alma-Ata 1975
  • Flower fairy tale , Alma-Ata 1976
  • Confession , Moscow 1978
  • Carnations for you , Alma-Ata 1982
  • Dance of the Cranes , Moscow 1985
  • Peace songs , Alma-Ata 1987
  • The days are rushing , Stuttgart 1998
  • Erika's flower fairy tale , Lage-Hörste 2002
  • Collected in four volumes , Lage-Hörste
    • 1st poems , 2004
    • 2. Stories and narratives , 2004
    • 3. Poems, fairy tales and stories for children , 2004
    • 4. Journalism, Echo , 2005

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Wacker, Nelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wacker, Nelly Reingoldowna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenberg , Simferopol , Crimea
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2006
Place of death Cologne