Vera Lourié

Vera Lourié ( Russian Вера Иосифовна Лурье ; born April 21, 1901 in St. Petersburg , Russian Empire ; died September 11, 1998 in Berlin ) was a Russian-German poet .

Life

Vera Iossifowna Lourié was a student and lover of the poet Nikolai Gumiljow in the Petrograd "House of Arts" . She belonged to a group of young poets who called themselves "The Sounding Shell". After Gumilev's murder, she emigrated with her family from Petrograd to Berlin in autumn 1921, where she lived until her death. In the 1920s she was part of the Russian literary scene in Berlin. She wrote for Russian newspapers and magazines and was friends with many Russian writers and artists. They included Andrej Belyj , Ilja Ehrenburg , Nina Berberova and Konstantin Waginow . Vera Lourié was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, but released after several weeks in prison. Her lover, the Berlin lawyer Alexander Posnyakov, died in 1941 in the Dachau concentration camp . As a Jew, her mother survived imprisonment in the Theresienstadt ghetto . One of Lourié's Russian students in Berlin was Liane Berkowitz , who was sentenced to death and executed by the National Socialists in 1943. Vera Lourié wrote her memoirs in old age , which were published in German by Verlag Schöffling in spring 2014.

Works

• Stichotvorenija. Poems . Edited and with an introduction by Thomas R. Beyer, Jr. Berlin: Series of the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Volume 8, 1987.
• Letters to you. Memories of Russian Berlin . Edited by Doris Liebermann , Verlag Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt / Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-89561-615-0 .

literature

• Elisabeth Cheauré: A person who has experienced, experienced and seen a lot ... On the memories of Vera Lourié (1901-1998) , in: Russian Culture and Gender Studies , Berlin: Verlag Arnold Spitz, 2002, pp. 477–502 .
• Doris Liebermann: "On the cold asphalt of Berlin. About Vera Lourié", in: Sinn und Form 4/2011, pp. 499–504 [1] . Following this: Vera Lourié, "Memories of Russian Berlin", pp. 505–528.
• Lena Bopp: Regardless of losses . Review, in: FAZ , July 12, 2014, p. 11
• Anna Prizkau: Regardless of losses . Review, in: FAS, March 9, 2014, p. 38

Movie

• Russia on the Spree . A film by Doris Liebermann and Dennis Weiler , SFB 1987, 45 min.

radio

• Russian Berlin. The poet Vera Lourié, who fled Petrograd in 1921, remembers . A radio feature by Doris Liebermann. SFB, February 22, 1985, 50 min.
• Splinters of a twofold dramatic life , Pieke Biermann on Vera Louriés memoir, Deutschlandradio Kultur, February 25, 2014.

Web links

• Lourié, Vera (1901-1998) , estate in the Federal Archives
• Vera Lourié , at the Lew Kopelew Forum
• Vera Lourié Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
• Letters to you , from Schoeffling

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander (Alexei) Vladimirovich Posnyakov , at pogost