Viktor Heinz

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Viktor Heinz ( Russian Виктор К. Гейнц, scientific transliteration Viktor K. Gejnc ; born October 10, 1937 in Novoskatowka , Omsk region , USSR ; † June 11, 2013 in Göttingen ) was a Russian- German Germanist and writer .

Life

Viktor Heinz was the son of a village school teacher. Since both parents had been deported to labor camps in the 1930s , Heinz grew up with his grandmother in Western Siberia . After he had passed the matriculation examination in 1955, he studied German at the Pedagogical University in Novosibirsk from 1959 . From 1963 worked Viktor Heinz as a lecturer at the Pedagogical Institute in Omsk , where he in 1971 with a thesis on German dialects in Siberia doctorate . From 1974 he held a chair at the Pedagogical University in Petropavlowsk / Kazakhstan and from 1984 was editor of Russian-German magazines in Alma-Ata . In addition to his work as a lecturer and journalist , Heinz stood out with narrative works , poems and plays in German and promoted young Russian-German authors. 1992 moved Heinz of Germany , where he more literary works published in 1995 and co-founded the literary circle of the Germans from Russia belonged. In 2002 he was awarded the Russian German Culture Prize .

Works

  • Traces of life , Alma-Ata 1980
  • Rain in June , Alma-Ata 1984
  • Steps of the Century , Moscow 1988
  • Herbstwind , Alma-Ata 1989
  • On the waves of the centuries , Moscow 1993
  • In the dead end , Stuttgart 1996
  • The burning lake , Lage-Hörste 2000
  • Tender radishes and other vegetables , Lage-Hörste 2002
  • One speaks, the other gossips, the third babbles , Augsburg 2008
  • When I died ... , Lage (Westf.) 2012

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SURNAME Heinz, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gejnc, Viktor K. (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German Germanist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Novoskatowka , Omsk
DATE OF DEATH 11th of June 2013
Place of death Goettingen