Olena Teliha

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Olena Iwaniwna Teliha ( Ukrainian Олена Іванівна Теліга ; born July 8 jul. / 21st July  1906 greg. Ilyinskoye in Dmitrov , Government Moscow , Russian Empire ; † 21st February 1942 in Babi Yar , Kiev , Commission Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian poet , Writer and activist of Ukrainian culture.

Two hryvnia commemorative coin of the Ukrainian National Bank from 2003 with her portrait

Life

She was born as Olena Teliha Schowheniwa in the village of Ilyinskoye, which today is part of the urban area of ​​Dmitrov near Moscow. In 1917 her family moved with her to Kiev, where she attended high school. In May 1920 her father, a well-known hydraulic engineer and professor at the "KPI" Ivan Shovheniv ( Іван Опанасович Шовгенів 1874–1943), had to flee from the Bolsheviks from Kiev to Czechoslovakia , as he was in danger as an employee of the Ukrainian People's Republic . In July 1922 the family followed him to Poděbrady in the Czech Republic . Olena graduated from high school there in the same year and from autumn 1923 studied Ukrainian language and literature at the Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute in Prague. There she met the Kuban Cossack Mychailo Teliha ( Михайло Якович Теліга ; 1900–1942), a bandurist and former officer in the UNR army, and married him in 1926. During that time she began to write poetry and journalistic articles in her native Russian .

Between 1929 and 1939 Teliha lived and worked in Warsaw, where she taught at a Ukrainian school and was active in the Ukrainian community. Here she was heavily influenced by her editor Dmytro Donzow and gained fame as a Ukrainian nationalist poet. At the end of 1939, she and her husband went to Krakow, where they met their long-time friend and member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) Oleh Olschytsch and began their active participation in the cultural field of the leadership of the Ukrainian nationalists. After the beginning of the German-Soviet war , she moved back to the Ukraine, where she went via Lviv to German-occupied Kiev , where she became head of the writers' association and editor of a weekly literary magazine. She later refused to cooperate with the occupation authorities who disliked the OUN's activities in Kiev. She and her husband were arrested in February 1942 and, according to some sources, shot dead in Babyn Yar on February 21st. According to other sources, she was shot with other nationalists in the basement of the Gestapo prison on Wolodymyrska Street in the current SBU building and was buried in a mass grave in the Lukjanivska cemetery .

A memorial to Olena Teliha and other Ukrainian nationalists shot in 1942 in Babyn Yar

Honors

The Ukrainian National Bank issued a two hryvnia commemorative coin with her portrait in memory of Olena Teliha in 2003 . A street was named after her near Babyn Yar in 1993 and in August 2009 a monument was erected in her honor in the park near the Technical University "KPI" in Kiev .

Web links

Commons : Olena Teliha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Olena Teliha ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Shevchenko University Central Library for Children, Kiev; accessed on May 16, 2016 (Ukrainian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.shevkyivlib.org.ua
  2. ↑ Entry on Teliha, Mykhailo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on June 11, 2019
  3. ↑ Historical Dictionary of Ukraine ; accessed on May 16, 2016
  4. ↑ Article Teliha, Olena in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 16, 2016
  5. ^ The Kiev Times
  6. ^ Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on May 13, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  7. ↑ Article on the memorial at ua.igotoworld.com ; accessed on April 1, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  8. ^ Article on the memorial on the KPI website from October 26, 2009; accessed on April 1, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Teliha, Olena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Теліга, Олена Іванівна (Ukrainian); Teliha, Olena Iwaniwna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet, activist of Ukrainian culture
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilyinskoye near Dmitrov , Moscow Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1942
Place of death Babyn Yar , Kiev , Reichskommissariat Ukraine