Sem Chaimovich Simkin
Sem Chaimowitsch Simkin ( Russian Сэм Хаимович Симкин , scientific transliteration Sėm Chaimovič Simkin ; born December 9, 1937 in Orenburg , † December 14, 2010 in Kaliningrad ) was a Russian deep-sea fisherman, poet and poet.
Life
The son of a teacher and a doctor, Simkin graduated from high school with excellent results. Familiar with literature at an early age, he was drawn from the Soviet Union to the freedom of the seas . Simkin moved to Kaliningrad in 1960 and attended the Kaliningrad Fish Industry College from 1960 to 1964 . There he joined the Literary Association of Young Authors . In 1966 his first volume of poetry was published - released by the censors . After three more books, he was accepted into the Writers' Union of the USSR in 1982. Widely known and teacher of poetry and language of a school club, he received in 1988 the highest award for Applied Art of Kaliningrad Oblast .
Shaped and inspired by the sea, he dedicated many verses to the Curonian Spit with its dunes, beaches and gardens by the sea. His reports about today's "Königsberg" were included in the anthologies of East Prussian authors and translated into German , Polish and Lithuanian .
In search of traces of the German past, Simkin found East Prussian poetry astonishingly rich. Not knowing the German language, he had the verses translated into Russian . Tied up by them, he decided to pass them on to his compatriots and composed - according to his own admission, with all his might - Russian reproductions of Russian translations , with the meaning and harmony of melody and rhythm preserved. When the first East Prussians visited Kaliningrad Oblast during perestroika , the first book in German and Russian hit the book trade in 1993. After Heinrich Albert's award song on the homeland, titled "You my single light", the book brings a selection of poetry from four centuries, verses by ETA Hoffmann , Johann Gottfried Herder , Agnes Miegel , Ernst Wiechert and Johannes Bobrowski . This adaptation of German poetry was very well received by Russian readers and was reprinted in 1996.
Simkin was buried in Zelenogradsk (Cranz).
Honors
- Prize winner of the Ernst Wiechert Society (2001)
- Culture Prize of the Landsmannschaft East Prussia (2005)
Collections of German poems
- You my only light , 1994
- East Prussia Poetry , book series, 8 volumes from 1996
Web links
- Literature by and about Sem Chaimowitsch Simkin in the catalog of the German National Library
- L. Natjagan, S. Simkin: Ernst Wiechert Care in Kaliningrad (PDF; 88 kB)
- Kaliningrad Region (2004)
- Portrait on the websites of the Kaliningrad Oblast Scientific Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bridge of mutual understanding built - East Prussian Culture Prize for Literature - Laudation by Hildegard Rauschenbach for Sem Simkin (PAZ, June 11, 2005) ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b obituary (PAZ, December 21, 2010)
- ↑ Ernst Wiechert Prize (Potsdam 2001) ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 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. (PDF; 30 kB)
- ↑ with two poems by Immanuel Kant
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simkin, Sem Chaimovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simkin, Sėm Chaimovič; Симкин, Сэм Хаимович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer and re-poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 2010 |
| Place of death | Kaliningrad |