Viktor Alexandrovich Sosnora

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Viktor Alexandrowitsch Sosnora ( Russian Виктор Александрович Соснора ; born April 28, 1936 in Alupka , ASSR of Crimea , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ; † July 13, 2019 in Saint Petersburg , Russia ) was a Russian poet , writer and playwright. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the Leningrad / Petersburg school.

Life

Sosnora was born as the son of a Leningrad family of circus artists who were on tour there at the time: Alexander Ivanovich Sosnora (1908-1959) and Ewa (Chawa) Wulfowna Gorowatzkaja (1914-1990). His grandfather Wulf Gorowatzkij was a rabbi in Vitebsk . His parents separated when he was a child; so he grew up alone with his mother. During the Leningrad blockade he was in Leningrad from 1941 to 1942 and was rescued from the besieged city via the Street of Life . He found himself in occupied Ukraine, where he lived - until his capture by the Gestapo - among partisans led by his uncle. The uncle and the other partisans were shot in front of Viktor. He was later found by his father, who was commanding a Polish unit at the time; with him he saw the end of the war in Frankfurt an der Oder . He learned to shoot when he was only nine years old. He attended school after the war in Warsaw , where his father served under Marshal Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Rokossowski , as well as in Arkhangelsk , Makhachkala and Lemberg . He finished school in Lviv and then returned to Leningrad, began a - incomplete - study at the philosophical faculty of Leningrad University , served in the army on Novaya Zemlya from 1955 to 1958 , where he was exposed to radiation during atomic explosions. 1958–1963 he worked as a welder and electrician in a factory in Leningrad and studied at the same time as a correspondence course at the philological faculty.

His first book was published in 1962. On the one hand, he published texts in official Soviet publishers, but his texts were also printed in samizdat and tamizdat . Sosnora was the only representative of the official Schestidesjatniki in Leningrad and often traveled abroad - he gave guest lectures in Paris and the USA, in Vincennes and in Wroclaw . His poems were officially printed in the Soviet Union for the first time in 1989. For health reasons, he did not take part in any public events in the last years of his life. Sosnora lived in St. Petersburg until his death in July 2019.

In addition to her own poems, Sosnora has also translated Catullus , Oscar Wilde , Edgar Allan Poe , Louis Aragon and Allen Ginsberg in free form .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Умер поэт Виктор Соснора. In: Radio Free Europe / Радио Свобода. July 13, 2019, Retrieved July 14, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Nina Koroljowa (Нина Королёва): О Викторе Сосноре и его стихах. In: Звезда 2007/9. 2007, accessed on July 14, 2019 (Russian, reproduced in Журнальный зал в РЖ, “Русский журнал”).
  3. ↑ Виктор Соснора: Биография. In: sosnora.poet-premium.ru. July 27, 2017, Retrieved July 14, 2019 (Russian).
  4. ↑ Ruslana Berndl: “Nothing remains for me without you”: On a poem by Viktor Sosnora. In: Trans. Internet magazine for cultural studies. June 2006, accessed July 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sosnora, Viktor Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соснора, Виктор Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian poet, writer, playwright and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Alupka , Crimea
DATE OF DEATH 13th July 2019
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Russia