Teodosiy Osmachka

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Meeting Kharkiv and Kiev artists in 1923. Left to right. First row: Maksym Rylskyj , Jurij Meschenko , Mykola Chwylowyj , Majk Johansen , Hryhorij Mychailow , Mychajlo Werykiwskyj . Second row: Natalja Romanowytsch , Mychailo Mohyljanskyj , Wassyl Ellan-Blakytnyj , Serhij Pylypenko , Pawlo Tytschyna , Pawlo Fylypowytsch . Third row: Mykola Serow , Mychajlo Draj-Chmara , Hryhorij Kossynka , Volodymyr Sosjura , Teodosij Osmatschka , Volodymyr Korjak , Mychailo Ivchenko

Teodosij Stepanowytsch Osmatschka ( Ukrainian Теодосій Степанович Осьмачка * July 4 jul. / 16th July  1895 greg. In Kuziwka , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 7. September 1962 in New York , United States ) was a Ukrainian poet, writer and Translator.

Life

Teodosij Osmatschka was born in the village of Kuziwka in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Cherkassy, the son of a family of agricultural workers. From 1920 he studied at the Institute of Education in Kiev and then worked as a teacher at Kiev schools. He was associated with the literature group "Lanka" and published three collections of poetry: 1922 "Круча" (Krutscha), 1925 "Скитські вогні" (Skytskiwohni) and 1929 "Клекіт" (Klekit).

In 1930 Osmatschka translated Shakespeare's Macbeth . After several of his friends and colleagues such as Hryhorij Strilez (1899-1934), Dmytro Falkiwskyj (1898-1934) and Valerjan Pidmohylnyj (1901-1937) had already been arrested and he too was exposed to denunciations and accusations, he tried to flee via the Polish Limit their fate to escape. However, he was arrested in Sverdlovsk , but was able to escape and, after being arrested again, was arrested for espionage. Not wanting to wait to be shot in prison, he pretended to be insane and was transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Kiev. He processed these experiences in 1956 in the story "Ротонда душогубців" (Rotonda duschohubziw).

In 1942 he moved to Lviv , where he published the book "Сучасникам" (Sutschasnykam). In 1944 he emigrated first to Germany and in 1948 to the USA. On July 6, 1961, he collapsed on the street in Munich due to nerve paralysis and was flown to the USA for treatment and taken to the Pilgrim State Hospital near New York. He died in New York at the age of 67 and was buried in the cemetery of the Ukrainian Orthodox St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook , New Jersey .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography of Teodosij Osmatschka on OnlyArt; accessed on November 12, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ In honor of the Ukrainian poet Teodosij Osmatschka, the "Osmatschka Festival" begins at the Cultural Industry Information Agency ; accessed on November 12, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Biography of Teodosij Osmatschka on UkrLib; accessed on November 12, 2016 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Osmatschka, Teodosij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osmatschka, Teodosij Stepanowytsch (full name); Осьмачка, Теодосій Степанович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuziwka , Kyiv Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1962
Place of death New York , United States