Serhiy Holovachev

Serhij Holovachev , Ukrainian Сергій Головачов ; Scientific transliteration Serhij Holovačov , also Russian Sergei Golowatschow (born  June 17, 1957 in Arad , Romania ) is a Ukrainian writer who speaks Russian .

biography

Serhiy Holovachev was born into a family of soldiers in Arad, Romania. He spent his childhood in Halle an der Saale . Here he learned German and absorbed literary impulses for his later writing. After finishing school in Kiev , he studied English and German at the Foreign Language Institute in Kiev, then taught both languages, worked as a librarian in the state historical library on the territory of the Kiev Lavra , as a stage technician in a Kiev theater, as a film copyist and as a Actors in small roles. He began to write later.

plant

Holowatschows published his first novel "Love tour" in 2005 on the Internet under the pseudonym Serhij Jundin. In 2009, he published a little fairy tale translated into Ukrainian under a pseudonym.

Serhij Holowatschow's main work is inspired by his German childhood memories of stories from the Blocksberg in the Harz Mountains. The main reason, however, was the fate of the Kiev student Yevhen Artemenko, who - a fan of witch novels by the Kiev author Lada Lusina - horribly tore up and killed in a grove on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital on the (Walpurgis) night of May 1st, 2009 has been. The material was first edited dramatically by Holovachev, after further editing and benevolent reviews, the novel “Kahler Berg” (Лысая гора) was published in Russian by the Kiev publishing house “Kajala” in March 2016 and then in May 2017. The subject of witches on the Bald Mountain, popular in Russian art (cf. for example Mussorgsky or Erofejew), is continued by Holovachev with a view to subcultures of the Ukraine and used to describe and deconstruct the zeitgeist in the form of satire.

Apart from Andrij Kurkow , Holowatschow is one of the mostly less well-known Russian-speaking authors in Ukraine and speaks very good German.

Web links

• Russian edition on Amazon (2016) [1]
• Author's website [2]