Olga Martynova
Olga Martynova ( Russian Ольга Борисовна Мартынова / Olga Martynova , scientific transliteration Ol'ga Borisovna Martynova ; * 26. February 1962 in Dudinka , Krasnoyarsk Territory , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian poet , essayist and translator .
Life
Olga Martynova grew up in Leningrad and studied Russian language and literature there. In November 1990 she came to Berlin as part of a literature exchange with the MINERVA group of authors - magazine for self-defense and philosophy and has lived in Germany ever since. She writes in Russian (poems, essays) and German (essays, prose). Her numerous contributions from German-language periodicals have been translated into English, Polish, Slovak, Bulgarian, Danish and, more recently, Russian, and her Russian poems into German, English, Italian, Albanian and French. She also works as an essayist and reviewer for newspapers such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Die Zeit and Frankfurter Rundschau .
In 2010 the first novel, Even Parrots Survive Us , followed, which reports in short episodes by a Saint Petersburg author who is attending a conference on Daniil Charms in Berlin . The book made it onto the long list of the German Book Prize and the shortlist of the aspekte literature prize .
In 2012 Martynova won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize with her text I will say: “Hi!” . With references to cultural history, she focuses on a young man who is at the same time interested in the awakening of erotic feelings and poetry.
Olga Martynova lives in Frankfurt am Main . She was married to the author Oleg Jurjew (1959-2018). There is also a son from this marriage (* 1988).
Memberships
Books
Russian published:
- Поступь январских садов [Tempo of the January Gardens] . Prometej, Moscow 1989 (= Камера хранения [luggage room] )
- Сумасшедший кузнечик [Crazy Locust] . St. Petersburg 1993, (= Камера хранения )
- Четыре времени ночи [Four Times of Night] . St. Petersburg 1998. (= Камера хранения )
- Французская библиотека [French Library] . NLO [UFO], Moscow 2007
- О Введенском. О Чвирике и Чвирке. Исследования в стихах [About Vvedensky. About Tschwirik and Tschwirik. Study of poetry] . Center for Contemporary Literature, Moscow: 2010, (= Русский Гулливер [Russian Gulliver] )
Published in German:
- Letter to the cypresses [poems]. (From the Russian by Elke Erb and Olga Martynova), Rimbaud , Aachen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89086-736-6 .
- Who gives what to whom , reviews 1999–2003 [essays and book reviews], Rimbaud-TB 20/21, Aachen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89086-686-4 .
- with Jelena Schwarz : Rome is somewhere in Russia . Two Russian poets in a lyrical dialogue about Rome, (from the Russian by Elke Erb and Olga Martynova), Edition per Procura, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-901118-57-9 (= Abrasch, No. 10; text in German and Russian).
- In the drafts of Europe [poems]. (Translated from the Russian by Elke Erb, Olga Martynova, Gregor Laschen , Ernest Wichner , Sabine Küchler and others), Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88423-327-6 ( Künstlerhaus edition, Volume 29).
- Even parrots survive us [Roman]. Droschl , Graz / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85420-765-8 . (Paperback edition: Even parrots survive us. Berlin, btb, 2012, ISBN 978-3-44274-365-0 .)
- Between the tables . Olga Martynova and Oleg Jurjew in an essayistic dialogue. Bernstein, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-939431-73-2 .
- From Tschwirik and Tschwirik [poems]. Translated from the Russian by Elke Erb and Olga Martynova. Droschl, Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-85420-831-0 .
- Mörike's collarbone [novel]. Droschl, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-85420-841-9 .
- The Engelherd [novel]. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002432-9 .
- On the stupidity of the hour [essays]. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-002433-6 .
Radio plays
- Petersburg twins (together with Oleg Yuryev). 2011, HR 2.
- Trial across the Kazakh steppe. Songs from Stalin's camps (together with Oleg Jurjew). 2014, HR 2.
Awards
- 2000 Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry
- 2005 Scholarship from the Baltic Center for Authors and Translators in Visby ( Sweden )
- 2007 Scholarship from Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
- 2010 Longlist German Book Prize with Even parrots survive us
- 2010 Shortlist aspects literature award with Even parrots survive us
- 2011 Babotschka Aronsona Prize (“Aronson's Butterfly” Prize) - the prize of the “Camera chranenija” literature association for the poem of the year 2010
- 2011 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize , advancement award
- 2011 working grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation
- 2011 Roswitha Prize
- 2011 Frankfurt authors' scholarship
- 2012 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for I will say: "Hi!"
- 2013/2014 scholarship from the international artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg
- 2015 Berlin Literature Prize
- 2017 Cross-border commuter research funding from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Berlin Literary Colloquium
Web links
- Portrait and text I will say: "Hi!" At bachmannpreis.eu
- Literature by and about Olga Martynova in the catalog of the German National Library
- Olga Martynova in an interview with Johannes Puch: Literature is there to sensitize the memory at boersenblatt.net on July 10, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Full text of I'll say, "Hi!" Under bachmannpreis.eu
- ↑ Award: Bachmann Prize goes to Olga Martynova at zeit.de, July 8, 2012 (accessed July 8, 2012).
- ↑ Beate Tröger: Messages from Wolkenkuckucksheim, in FAZ of July 14, 2012, page 33.
- ↑ Olga Martynova: Crimean Diary. Between space and time. Frankfurter Rundschau from March 6, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martynova, Olga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martynova, Ol'ga Borisovna (transliteration); Мартынова, Ольга Борисовна (Russian); Martynova, Olga Borisovna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian poet and German essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dudinka , Krasnoyarsk Territory , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union |