Viktor Anatoljewitsch Schenderowitsch

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Viktor Shenderovich, 2010

Viktor Anatoljewitsch Schenderowitsch ( Russian Виктор Анатольевич Шендерович ; born August 15, 1958 in Moscow ) is a Russian satirist, journalist and screenwriter.

Professional career

Shenderovich graduated from the Moscow State Cultural Institute in 1980 and then did two years of military service. From 1982 he headed a theater circle in a Moscow pioneer palace and taught at the Drama Institute GITIS .

He achieved fame as the scriptwriter of the popular political puppet show Kukly (Puppen), which was broadcast from 1994 to 2001 by the Russian broadcaster NTW . From 1997 he also designed a satirical program called "ItogO" at NTW, which he also moderated himself. After the change of ownership at NTW in 2001, Schenderowitsch left the station and switched with other colleagues to the TW-6 station , which was closed at the beginning of 2002. From 2002 he worked at the transmitter TWS , which also ceased operations the following year. Since November 2003 Viktor Shenderovich has been running his own weekly radio program called Streichkäse ( Плавленный сырок ) on Echo Moskwy and a program called Vse Swobodny on Radio Swoboda . In the meantime, he also produced a television version of his radio program Streichkäse for the broadcaster RTVi, which was titled Nowyje wremena (in German New Times ). The name of this program referred to the film Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin and already referred to the concept of the program: between Schenderowitsch's comments on current political events, thematically appropriate, musically highlighted excerpts from Chaplin films were shown.

Political commitment

Viktor Shenderovich is one of the most famous critics of Vladimir Putin in the Russian media landscape. In his broadcast on Echo Moskwy , he commented on Russian government policy every week in a critical and ironic manner, and he also appeared regularly as a speaker at demonstrations critical of the government.

On December 4, 2005 Shenderovich ran in the by-elections for a seat in the Duma . Originally, the entrepreneur Mikhail Khodorkovsky had wanted to run in the relevant constituency , who was then in custody. Due to his quick conviction, however, his candidacy was no longer legally possible. Viktor Shenderovich then took his place, so to speak. He received 17% of the vote in the election and was thus defeated by his rival Stanislaw Goworuchin , who was elected with 38% of the vote. Goworuchin, a well-known film director, ran for the pro-government United Russia party . During the election campaign, Shenderovich filed a lawsuit against what he believed to be unfair practices by Goworuchin. However, his request was rejected as unfounded. In 2006 Shenderovich published the book Nedodumez , in which he summarized his experiences as a Duma candidate.

Schenderowitsch is a member of the opposition committee founded by the ex-world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 2008 .

On March 10, 2010, he signed a manifesto of the Russian opposition, which included Sakhar Prilepin , under the title “ Putin must go ”.

In February 2014, Schenderowitsch caused a major scandal when, in his article on the Echo Moskwy website, he described the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi with the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany and the victory of the young figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya with the victory of the future captain the police in Belarus compared Hans Woellkes . In September of the same year he pointed out the differences between the referendums in Crimea and the referendum on Scottish independence; He defined the long processes and investigations in Scotland as voting, the "green men" of the Crimea as "pornography"; the question in the Crimea was a pure blackmail in the sense of the question "Are you for Putin or sawing off your hand with a rusty saw?"

In an interview in April 2016, Schenderowitsch commented on the insults putin supporters against himself, who often have anti-Semitic backgrounds: “People who are deeply convinced of Putin are often also anti-Semites. Both of them show poor intellect. Putin is not against Jews . But its primitive populism affects people with not too much sense. "

In 2018 he spoke out in favor of a boycott of the World Cup in Russia; "This hospitable Russia is at war and there are political prisoners in this country's prisons." The Kremlin should not be offered this advertising platform, there would be no non-political international sport anywhere.

On December 30, 2021, Shenderovich was put on the list of " foreign agents ".

factories

  • 1990 - Zwety dlja professora Pleischnera ( flowers for Professor Pleischner )
  • 1993 - W derewnje Gadjukino opjat 'doschdi ( Again rain in the village of Gadjukino )
  • 1995 - Semetschki ( kernels )
  • 1997 - Teatr odnogo Schenderowitscha ( Theater of a Schenderowitsch )
  • 1998 - Kukly ( dolls )
  • 1999 - Московский пейзаж ( Moscow landscape )
  • 2000 - Viktor Shenderovich
  • 2000 - Kukliada
  • 2000 - Антология ( anthology )
  • 2000 - 208 isbrannych straniz ( 208 selected pages )
  • 2004 - Sdes' bylo NTW i drugije istorii ( Here was NTW and other stories )
  • 2004 - Sdes' bylo NTW, TW-6, TWS ( Here was NTW, TW-6, TWS )
  • 2005 - Monologue s Vlastju ( monologue with the authorities )
  • 2005 - Kinoteatr powtornogo filma ( cinema of repeated films )
  • 2005 - Isjum is bulki ( The raisin from the bun )
  • 2006 - Nedodumez
  • 2006 - Isjum is bulki. Isdanije wtoroje. Isprawlennoje i dopolnennoje. (The raisin from the bun. Second edition, improved and expanded. )
  • 2007 - Plawlennyje syrki i drugaja pishcha dlja uma ( cheese spread and other mental foods )

Web links

Commons : Victor Shenderovich  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

sources

  1. ↑ a b Short biography of Shenderovich on www.anticompromat.ru ( Memento from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Viktor Shenderovich: Nedodumez, ili Kak ja pobedil Marka Twena. Sakharov, Moscow 2006
  3. ↑ Viktor Anatoljewitsch Schenderowitsch: Special Statement , Echo Moskwy, September 18, 2014
  4. ↑ Viktor Schenderowitsch - Russia's harshest critic . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on April 11, 2018]).
  5. ↑ "The more disgusting the state, the more important the sport" , Echo der Zeit , June 12, 2018
  6. ↑ Moscow classifies pussy riot activists as "foreign agents". Der Standard , December 30, 2021, accessed the same day.
personal data
SURNAME Schenderowitsch, Viktor Anatoljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шендерович, Виктор Анатольевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian satirist, journalist and screenwriter
BIRTH DATE August 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow