Samson Tschanba

Samson Tschanba on an Abkhazian postage stamp

Samson Tschanba ( Abkhaz / Russian Самсон Чанба * June 6 ^{. Jul} / 18th June  1886 ^greg. In Atara , Russian empire , now Abkhazia , † 1937 ) was an Abkhaz - Soviet writer , playwright and politician.

Tschanba wrote in both Abkhazian and Russian; today he is considered one of the pioneers of the Abkhazian drama .

Life

Samson Tschanba came from an Abkhazian farming family and attended a monastery school. After attending a teacher training college, he first worked as a teacher. From 1916 he began to write. The October Revolution and the victory of the Bolsheviks , he supported enthusiastically. In 1919 his collection of poems "Dewa Gor" was published. In 1920 Tschanba wrote the first drama in the Abkhazian language, Machadschiry. Numerous other dramas followed, including "Apsny Chanym" (1923), "From Past Days" (1929). In his works he often dealt with the young Soviet Union and related issues and in 1921 also joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . In the same year he became editor-in-chief of the newspaper " Red Abkhazia ". Later Tschanba also wrote novellas.

From 1922 to 1925 and from 1930 to 1932 he was People's Commissar for Education in Abkhazia, in between he was a member of the Central Executive Committee in Abkhazia from 1925 to 1930. In 1935 he became head of the Abkhazian Writers' Union.

In the course of the Stalinist terror , Chanba was arrested and executed in 1937. Years later he was posthumously rehabilitated. In the Abkhazian capital Sukhum , the Samson-Tschanba-Theater is named after him today.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Samson Tschanba on www. britica.com , accessed on January 22, 2013 (English)
2. ↑ Article Samson Tschanba in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D121428~2a%3D~2b%3DSamson%20Tschanba