Sewer Felixowitsch Gansowski

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Sewer Felixowitsch Gansowski

Sever Felixowitsch Gansowski ( Russian Север Феликсович Гансовский ; born December 15, 1918 in Warsaw , † September 6, 1990 in Moscow ) was a science fiction author of the Soviet Union .

biography

Gansowski's father of Polish-Latvian descent died in 1920; his mother was killed during the Stalinist repression in the 1930s. He worked as a showman, sailor and electrician, attended evening school in Leningrad and volunteered for the front when the war broke out. In 1942 he was seriously wounded and then demobilized. He worked on a stud farm in Kazakhstan , as a postman and teacher. After the end of the war he studied in Leningrad at the philological faculty of the university and began to publish his first publications while still studying: reports, book reviews and children's literature. In 1959 he submitted two one-act plays under different pseudonyms to a Union competition, which received 1st and 2nd prize. The jury chairman was Nikolai Pogodin .

His story Vincent van Gogh was filmed in 1985 by Horst Seemann at DEFA under the title Visiting van Gogh . Other film adaptations of his works are the animated film Polygon from 1977 and the movie День гнева (The Day of Wrath, 1985).

In 1989 Gansowski won the most important Russian SF award, the Aelita Prize , for his short story collection Инстинкт? . In addition to his numerous stories translated into many languages, he also emerged as a graphic artist and illustrated, among other things, the first edition of the novel Die Schnecke am Hang by the Strugazki brothers .

Science fiction task

“Good, solid SF is, like every other genre of our art, about people. The main thing is not cyborgs, not journeys into the past or future, not three-eyed monsters and mysterious rays, but the human being of today and the interrelationship between him and the environment. "Gansowski is about a better understanding of the ' to reach 'neuralgic points' of the present. He advocated a technology-critical development: "In my opinion, the future ultimately does not depend on technology, but on moral and political decisions."

German topic

“I lay in my damp trench and thought about the Germans. About those German soldiers who were lying in just as wet trenches opposite our position, about those who drove them into these trenches, and about the terrible fate of a whole people deceived by the Nazis ... "

Works (selection)

  • 1952 В рядах борцов
  • 1955 Надежда
  • 1963 Шаги в неизвестное (Steps into the Unknown )
  • 1965 Шесть гениев (The Sixth Genius)
  • 1969 Три шага к опасности
  • 1971 Идет человек
  • 1974 Люди этого часа
  • 1981 Человек, который сделал Балтийское море
  • 1988 Инстинкт?
  • 1991 Стальная змея
  • 2002 День гнева

German editions

  • 1966 steps into the unknown . Fantastic story. German by Ruth Henkel, illustrations by Gertrud Boesel ( kap series published by Verlag Kultur und Progress)
  • 1967 The sixth genius . Utopian narrative. Translated from the Russian by Eleonore Weist (together in one volume with The Violet Death by Wolodimir Wladko ), Verlag Das Neue Berlin
  • 1970 In the basement in front of Berjosowka . Translated from the Russian by Rahel Strassberg, illustrations by Karl Fischer ( small story series in the military publishing house )
  • 1970 Der Schießplatz (in: Flug zum Alpha Eridani , edited by Lothar Grünewald, Verlag Kultur und Progress; also in: Blick vom other Ufer. European Science-Fiction , edited and with an introduction by Franz Rottensteiner , Suhrkamp Verlag 1977, Fantastic Library , Volume 4)
  • 1972 The voice from the anti-world . Fantastic stories (Verlag Volk und Welt)
1979 reprinted in an anthology together with The Girl from Space by Ivan Yefremov and The Intelligence Test by Dmitri Bilenkin
  • 1976 Die Zieselmaus (in: The uncanny elevator , edited by Hannelore Menke, Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin)
  • 1972 Vincent van Gogh . From the Russian by Hannelore Menke (number range in the publishing house people and world , Vol. 40)
  • 1977 The crystal and other fantastic stories . (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag)
  • 1979 Der Tag des Zorns (in: Das Mädchen am Abhang , edited by Franz Rottensteiner, Suhrkamp Verlag, Fantastic Library, Volume 38; also in: The reconstruction of people . Fantastic stories, edited by Erik Simon , Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 1980 )
  • 1982 Der Dekaber (in: Well established planets . Fantastic stories, edited by W. Gakow, Verlag Das Neue Berlin; again in From the diary of an ant , edited by Michael Szameit , Verlag Neues Leben, 1985)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alexander Fjodorow: Conversation with Sewer Gansowski . Soviet literature 10-1984, p. 165 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Gansowski, Sewer Felixowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гансовский, Север Феликсович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1990
Place of death Moscow