Vera Mikhailovna Inber

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Vera Inber

Vera Mikhailovna Inber , Russian Вера Михайловна Инбер , born Shpenzer even Vera Inber called (* June 28 jul. / 10. July  1890 greg. In Odessa ; † 11. November 1972 in Moscow ) was a Russian writer who in the West especially for her texts from war events and her poems and stories for children. Her Jewish origins were hardly reflected in her work.

Life

Inber's father ran a scientific book publisher in Odessa, and she enjoyed a good education. From 1910 to 1914 she lived in Paris . With her early poetry she was close to the French and Russian symbolists . She also worked as a journalist and traveled around Europe. In the 1920s she joined the Constructivists without sharing their enthusiasm for experimentation. At the beginning of 1935 Inber and twelve other well-known writers were among the signatories of a denunciation against the poet Pawel Wassiljew , who was known as a peasant poet , who was then arrested and subsequently shot in 1937. Her books were banned and burned in National Socialist Germany. In 1943 she joined the CPSU . From 1941 to 1944 lived with her third husband, the medical historian Ilya Straschun (1892–1967) in Leningrad . So she experienced the infamous blockade that killed around one million people. The blockade is the subject of Inber's poem Pulkowski meridian (1943) and her report Potschti tri goda (1946, German almost three years ). Both works were awarded the Stalin Prize. Inber died in Moscow at 82. In Odessa a street is named after Vera Inber.

Works

  • Pechalnoye wino , poems, 1914 (Sad Wine)
  • Gorkaia uslada , poems, 1917
  • Brennyeslova , poems, 1922
  • Mesto pod solncem , Roman, 1928, German The place in the sun , Berlin 1929, Leipzig 1949, East Berlin 1951
  • Pulkovskij meridian , Poem, 1943, (German Der Meridian von Pulkovo )
  • Pocti tri goda , Aufzüge , 1946, German Almost three years , East Berlin 1946
  • Place in the Sun and other short stories , Stockholm 1947
  • Vdokhnoveniye i masterstvo , Essays on Literature, 1957 (Inspiration and Mastery )
  • Kak ja byla malen'kaja , youth book, 1959, German (by Monica Huchel) When I was little , East Berlin 1959

literature

  • EF Usevic: Onektorych certach tvorcestva Vera Inber , in: Znamja 12/1945
  • Kornelij Lyucianovich Zelinskij: Vera Inber , in: Oktjabr 5/1946
  • EF Usevic: O Vera Inber , in: ders .: Knigi i zizn , Moscow 1949, pp. 95–110
  • A. Tarasenkov: Vera Inber , in: ders .: Sila utverzdenija , Moscow 1955, pages 181-213
  • Iosif Grinberg: Vera Inber , Moscow 1961
  • Christa Wolf : The sense of a new thing , portrait of Inber from 1967, in: Essays, Talks, Speeches, Letters 1959-1974 , Works Volume 4, Munich 1999
  • N. Zacharenko and I. Chanukaeva: "Vera Mikhailovna Inber", in: Russkie sovetskie pisateli. Poety , Volume 9, Moscow 1986, pp. 339-420

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to this website , accessed April 16, 2011
  2. ↑ Alexander Jakowlew : The abysses of my century. An autobiography, Leipzig, Faber & Faber 2003, ISBN 3-936618-12-7 , pp. 206f
  3. ↑ See the Directory of the Cultural Council ( Memento of the original of April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 201 kB), accessed on April 16, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturrat.de
  4. ↑ The novel (also issued as a novella on various occasions) revolves around a young woman who tries to find her place in Russian society during the time of upheaval. He shows autobiographical and at the same time distant and ironic traits, writes Kindler's Neues Literaturlexikon (Munich edition 1988). Inber herself considered it to be her most successful prose work.
  5. ↑ According to Kindlers , the poem impresses with its combination of sublime and ordinary language, bold comparisons and apt expression

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personal data
SURNAME Inber, Vera Mikhailovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shpenzer (maiden name); Inber, Vera; Инбер, Вера Михайловна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1972
Place of death Moscow