Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin

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Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin ( Russian Валенти́н Григо́рьевич Распу́тин ; born March  15, 1937 in Atalanka near Ust-Uda , Irkutsk Oblast ; † March 14, 2015 in Moscow ) was a Russian writer and environmental activist.

Life

From 1954 to 1959 he studied at the historical-philological faculty of the University of Irkutsk and then worked for various newspapers and youth magazines. In 1961 he published his first short story. In 1966 he gave up his journalistic activity and settled down as a freelance writer. He brought out numerous novels and several volumes of short stories.

As early as the 1970s, Rasputin was involved in the environmental movement to protect his Siberian homeland, using Marxist classics and resolutions of the CPSU Central Committee for argumentation. In 1988 he received the Global 500 Award sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) . In 1993 the asteroid (4537) Valgrirasp was named after him.

In the 1990s he became involved in the communist-nationalist opposition to Yeltsin's reforms. B. signed the manifesto A Word to the People critical of perestroika and supported the National Salvation Front .

Rasputin died in March 2015, the day before his 78th birthday.

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Valentin Rasputin was considered one of the most important Russian writers of the 1970s. He was counted among the so-called village literature, because as a very nature - loving author he presented the fundamental problems of the various individual fates of a village.

With his novel Farewell to Matjora , which describes the sinking of his home village in the floods of the Angara dammed up by the Irkutsk waterworks , he achieved world fame. In his sketches about the Baikal he tells one of the many legends about the origin of the lake.

Since the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin has been committed not only literarily but also politically to the rescue of Lake Baikal .

Works

  • Money for Maria. Novella 1967. Berlin 1988.
  • The final deadline. Roman 1970. Berlin 1977.
  • Live and do not forget. Roman 1974. Berlin 1977.
  • Farewell to Matjora. Roman 1976. Goldmann, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-442-09253-1 .
  • The fire. Narrative. Goldmann, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-442-09346-5 .
  • Wassilij and Vasilissa. Narrative. Reclam, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-15-008241-2 ( German / Russian ).
  • The boy, the river and the great forest. Children's book, illustrated by Waltraut Fischer. (Original title: Zemlja rodiny ), Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-358-02238-2 .

Web links

Commons : Walentin Grigoryevich Rasputin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Klaus Bednarz / WDR on June 15, 2004. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; Retrieved December 6, 2007 . 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. Valentin Rasputin, one of the most important contemporary Russian writers, who was born on Baikal, was the pioneer of the entire environmental movement on Baikal. He has given up his political struggle, for example to close the paper mill, as he told me. In his opinion, there are obviously political and economic forces that are stronger than the environmental movement. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.3sat.de
  2. ^ Yevgeny Ossetrov: To be completely yourself. Conversation with Valentin Rasputin (from Art and Culture 5/77 ) . In: Valentin Rasputin: The last deadline / Live and don't forget . 3. Edition. Reclam, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-379-00561-4 , p. 442 f . Above all, like many others, I am moved by the fate of Lake Baikal . Fresh water is already the greatest treasure today. ... Preserving this water is our greatest task. If we don't manage that, our descendants will never forgive us.
  3. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 22502
  4. ^ Yevgeny Ossetrov: To be completely yourself. Conversation with Valentin Rasputin (from Art and Culture 5/77 ) . In: Valentin Rasputin: The last deadline / Live and don't forget . 3. Edition. Reclam, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-379-00561-4 , p. 439 . Sometimes the writers are divided into "townspeople" and "villagers". I am one of the latter, although I have lived in the city for a long time and know the factory and the peasant environment.
  5. ↑ Klaus Bednarz: Ballad from Lake Baikal. Encounters with people and landscapes . Bastei Lübbe Tb., Bergisch Gladbach 1998, ISBN 3-404-60485-7 , p. 421 .
personal data
SURNAME Rasputin, Valentin Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rasputin, Valentin; Распутин, Валентин Григорьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Atalanka , Irkutsk Oblast
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2015
Place of death Moscow