Panait Istrati

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Panait Istrati (1927)
Commemorative plaque on the house in Paris where he wrote his main works from 1922 to 1930.
His funeral in Bucharest in April 1935
The Panait Istrati Library in Brăila (2010)

Panait Istrati (born August 22, 1884 in Brăila , Romania , † April 16, 1935 in Bucharest ) was a French- and Romanian-speaking writer of Romanian origin.

Life

His mother was the laundress Joița Istrate, his father a Greek smuggler. He grew up in the village of Baldovineşti near Brăila , where he attended elementary school for six years, where he sat twice. He later made a living as a waiter and assistant to a pastry maker. During this time he was a tireless reader. His travels, partly as a tramp, took him to Bucharest , Constantinople , Alexandria , Cairo , Naples , Paris and Switzerland .

Living in deep poverty, sick and lonely, he attempted suicide on the way to Nice in 1921 , but was saved. He had written a self-confessed letter to Romain Rolland , which was found on him after the suicide attempt and was delivered to Rolland, to which Rolland replied immediately. In 1923 his short story Kyra Kyralina was published with a foreword by Romain Rolland. In this preface Rolland called him the " Gorky of the Balkans".

In 1927 he traveled to Russia with Nikos Kazantzakis and visited Moscow and Kiev . A second trip to the Soviet Union followed in 1929, where he learned the truth about the Stalinist dictatorship. This led to his famous book On Wrong Path .

His former communist friends now branded him a "fascist". He returned to Romania sick and broken, where he died of tuberculosis in 1935 . Panait Istrati was buried in the Cimitrul Bellu ( German  Bellu cemetery ) in Bucharest.

plant

The stories about Adrian Zograffi :

Adrian Zograffi's youth:

The life of Adrian Zograffi:

Outside of the cycle around Adrian Zograffi:

Report of a trip through the Soviet Union:

literature

  • Ilja Ehrenburg : People - Years - Life. Memoirs , Volume 2 1923–1941, Munich 1962, again Munich 1965, pp. 197–202 (portrait), ISBN 3-463-00512-3
  • Heinrich Stiehler: Panait Istrati. On the difficulty of telling life , Gutenberg Book Guild , Frankfurt 1990 ISBN 3-7632-3851-4
  • Heinrich Stiehler: On the reception of Panaït Istrati in the FRG and the GDR. A qualitative content analysis . In: Beatrice Nickel, Carolin Fischer (ed.): French and Francophone Literature in Germany 1945-2010. Reception, translation, cultural transfer . Peter Lang, Bern 2011 ISBN 978-3-631-55953-6 pp. 43–50
  • Jules Ferdmann: Panait Istrati . In: Davoser Revue, Vol. 1 (1926), No. 8, pp. 23-27
  • Birgit Schmidt: "I'm not a theorist, but I understand socialism very differently". Life, work and revolt of the Romanian writer Panaït Istrati. Edition AV, Frankfurt 2019
    • slightly shortened and revised, without comment: "Where is the omelette?" Dschungel, supplement to jungle world , 45, 7 November 2019, pp. 18 - 23 (portrait)

Web links

Commons : Panait Istrati  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jochen Schmidt : Instructions for use for Romania . No. 7627 . Piper Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-27627-6 , pp. 133 f .
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Panait Istrati
personal data
SURNAME Istrati, Panait
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-speaking writer of Romanian origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Brăila , Romania
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1935
Place of death Bucharest