Sergei Sergeyevich Lebedev
Sergei Sergejewitsch Lebedew ( Russian Сергей Сергеевич Лебедев ; * 1981 in Moscow , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ) is a Russian journalist and author .
Life
Lebedev comes from a Soviet family of geologists. When he was still at school, he was already looking for minerals and rock crystals in abandoned mines to supplement his pocket money. In doing so, he came across remnants of the GULAG's former camps . In the following years he found traces of this past in the life stories of his family members, which he then summarized in his first novel with his discoveries in the north and east of the former Soviet Union.
Lebedev had previously worked as a journalist, including for the literary magazine Swjesda , and published poems and essays. The first novel Heaven on Her Shoulders was on the list of nominations for the National Best Seller Award of Russia in 2011 and was published in German translation in 2013. In the same year Lebedew was a scholarship holder of the Literary Colloquium Berlin with the support of the Foreign Office .
His third novel Menschen im August , published in German translation in autumn 2015 , was too sensitive for several publishers in Russia and was only published in Russia in January 2016. Some of his novels deal with the psychological after-effects of the millions of experiences of the Gulag on Russian society. The “ first-person narrator in the tradition of romanticism” ( Per Leo ) is typical of her , his language is shaped by metaphors and comparisons.
During Putin's re-election in March 2018, he said Russia was "sick with fear". There is no state institution that represents the citizens. The authenticity of the relationships has disappeared and the poisonous cocktail of propaganda creates a machinery of witch hunts.
Works (selection)
- Предел забвения. Publishing house Pervoje sentjabrja , Moscow 2010, ISBN 978-5-8246-0160-2 . 2nd edition: Verlag EKSMO , Moscow 2012, ISBN 978-5-699-54441-7 .
- German edition: Heaven on your shoulders . Translated by Franziska Zwerg. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-042510-2 .
- Год кометы. Zjentr knigi Rudomino publishing house , Moscow 2014, ISBN 978-5-00087-043-3 .
- Люди августa. Intellektualnaja Literatura publishing house, Moscow 2016, ISBN 978-5-9907-2231-6 .
- German edition: People in August . Translated by Franziska Zwerg. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-042511-9 .
- Гусь Фриц. Vremya Publishing House , Moscow 2018, ISBN 978-5-9691-1707-5 .
- German edition: Kronos' children . Translated by Franziska Zwerg. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397373-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian fathers, Russian mothers in FAZ from April 19, 2013, page 35
- ↑ Inge Pylypchuk: The old fear is back , interview, in: Die Literarian Welt , October 24, 2015, p. 3
- ↑ Per Leo , Every escape is a bet with death , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 4, 2016, p. 13.
- ↑ “History will have its price,” Die Neue, March 18, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lebedew, Sergei Sergejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Лебедев, Сергей Сергеевич (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |