Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin

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Wladimir Sorokin at a reading during Lit.Cologne 2006 in Cologne

Wladimir Georgijewitsch Sorokin ( Russian Владимир Георгиевич Сорокин , scientific transliteration Vladimir Georgievič Sorokin ; emphasis: Wladímir Geórgijewitsch Sorókin ; born  August 7,  1955 in Bykowo near Moscow ) is a Russian writer and playwright . Sorokin is considered a representative of Moscow conceptualism and Russian postmodernism . It has been subject to violent attacks from government-affiliated political organizations in the past.

Life

Sorokin studied at the Moscow Gubkin Institute of the Natural Gas and Oil Industry and at the Institute of Chemistry . After completing his engineering training in 1977, he worked for the magazine “Wechsel” ( Смена ) for a year before his refusal to join the Komsomol led to his dismissal. Meanwhile, Sorokin was already busy with book graphics, painting and conceptual art and took part in numerous exhibitions; he designed and illustrated around 50 books. He also made his first own literary steps in the early 1970s. In 1972 he made his debut as a poet in the high-circulation newspaper "Für die Erdölindustrie " ( За кадры нефтяников ).

In the 1980s it was part of Moscow's unofficial literature . At that time Sorokin was close to the Moscow circle of conceptualists and published in samizdat . In 1985, six of Sorokin's stories were reprinted in the Paris magazine А-Я . In the same year the novel "The Snake" ( Очередь ) was published by the French publisher Syntaxe. The first publication in the Soviet Union was in 1989, when Sorokin published a few stories in the November issue of the magazine “Quelle” ( Родник ). This was followed by “Third Modernization” ( Третья модернизация ) and “End of the Century” ( Конец века ), Mitin Journal (Митин журнал), Mesto Pechati (Место печати).

In March 1992, Sorokin became known to a wider readership when the novel "The Snake" was published in the magazine "Kinokunst" ( Искусство кино ) and a book of short stories in the Moscow publishing house "Russlit" ( Русслит ). In addition, the manuscript "The Hearts of Four" ( Сердца четырёх ) was published. His books are currently translated into 22 languages. Vladimir Sorokin lives near Moscow and in Berlin, is married and has twin daughters. In November 2014 he returned to painting after a break of 35 years.

Sorokin's texts are so popular in German-speaking countries that even his novels get stage versions. This is how Manaraga became, for example . The diary of a master chef brought to the stage by director Blanka Rádóczy in an 80-minute non-stop performance at the Schauspielhaus Graz . The joint production by Schauspielhaus Graz & steirischer herbst '19 premiered on October 9, 2019.

controversy

Along with Viktor Pelewin and Viktor Erofeev, Sorokin is regarded as one of the three main representatives of Russian postmodernism and is considered one of the sharpest critics of the Russian political system. In his stories and novels he quotes different spellings, e.g. B. he parodies the style of socialist realism and combines it with depictions of violence and elements of Russian mythology. According to Sorokin, contemporary Russia can only be portrayed with the grotesque means of satire.

Sorokin's texts sparked several political controversies in Russia. In particular, the youth movement Iduschtschije wmeste ("Common Way"), which is close to Putin , initiated a series of defamatory actions directed against Sorokin's work, among others. a. In 2002 they set up a huge toilet in front of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, into which they threw Sorokin's books. In 2002 they filed a lawsuit against Sorokin with the Moscow District Court for alleged pornography, and a. in his novel Himmelblauer Speck ( Goluboe Salo ). The litigation ended in Sorokin's favor; the Russian culture minister Mikhail Schwydkoi had spoken out early on against the attempts at censorship. If the Idushchi Wmeste threw Sorokin's books symbolically into the "toilet", this same organization later even burned the writer's books publicly under its new name Naschi .

In spring 2005 the Duma cultural committee was authorized to initiate an investigation into the premiere of the opera Rosenthals Kinder (music: Leonid Desjatnikow, libretto : Wladimir Sorokin) at the Bolshoi Theater . The opera's protagonists include a. a genetic researcher, a number of prostitutes and clones of the late composers Mozart , Verdi , Mussorgsky , Wagner and Tchaikovsky .

In 2006, The Day of Oprichnik appeared , a dystopia in which the world of Ivan the Terrible is projected into contemporary Russia. Despite the date in the future, the present is recognizable with national patriotic or neo-imperialist discourses.

After receiving the Gorky Prize in 2010, the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets called the author a revolutionary who was looking for new literary forms. However, most Russians could do little with Vladimir Sorokin and his modernity.

bibliography

Ice trilogy

Novels

  • Die Schlange ( Очередь ), created 1983, published Paris (Syntaxe) 1985 (German by Peter Urban bei Haffmans, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-2510-0168-X )
  • Норма ( Norma , "Die Norm"), created 1979–1984, Moscow (Tri Kita and Obscuri Viri) 1994 (German by Dorothea Trottenberg, Dumont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3770144822 )
  • Роман ( novel ), created 1985–1989, Moscow (Tri Kita and Obscuri Viri) 1994 (German by Thomas Wiedling, Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1995, ISBN 978-3251002986 )
  • Marina's thirtieth love ( Тридцатая любовь Марины ), created in 1984, Moscow (Elinina) 1995 (German by Thomas Wiedling, Haffmans Verlag 1991, ISBN 3-2510-0187-6 )
  • The Hearts of Four ( Сердца Четырех ), created in 1991, world first edition in German by Thomas Wiedling by Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-2510-0231-7 )
  • The sky-blue bacon ( Голубое Сало ), Moscow (Ad Marginem) 1999 (German by Dorothea Trottenberg, Dumont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8321-4881-7 ; full text in Russian )
  • Пир ( Pir , “The Banquet”), Moscow (Ad Marginem) 2000
  • The Obelisk (German by Gabriele Leupold, Haffmans, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-2510-0192-2 )
  • Lyod. Das Eis ( Лёд ), Moscow (Ad Marginem) 2002 (German by Andreas Tretner, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8270-0493-4 )
  • Bro ( Путь Бро ), Moscow (Zakharov Books) 2004 (German by Andreas Tretner, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0610-4 )
  • 23,000 ( 23,000 ), Moscow (Zakharov Books) 2009 (German by Andreas Tretner, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-8270-0701-1 )
  • Der Tag des Opritschniks ( День опричника ), Moscow (Zakharov Books) 2006 (German by Andreas Tretner, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03923-8 )
  • The snow storm ( Метель ), 2010 (German by Andreas Tretner, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04459-1 )
  • Telluria ( Теллурия ), Moscow (AST) 2013 (German by the collective Hammer und Nagel, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04811-7 )
  • Manaraga. Diary of a master chef , Roman, from the Russian by Andreas Tretner, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2018, 251 pages, ISBN 978-3-462-31876-0 .

Art books

  • Horse soup. With drawings by Yaroslaw Schwarzstein, from the Russian by Dorothea Trottenberg, ciconia cicona Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-945867-10-5
  • The white square. For Kirill Serebrennikow. With drawings by Ivan Razumov, translated from the Russian by Christiane Körner, ciconia cicona Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-945867-17-4

Short stories, essays, prose poems

  • "Black Cock" ( Тетерев ), 1969
  • "Apples" ( Яблоки ), 1969
  • " Surrounded " ( Окружение ), 1980
  • “A month in Dachau” ( Месяц в Дахау ), 1994, prose poem
  • "Lazurnata Mass" ( Лазурната мас ), 2000
  • “Moscow Eros” ( Эрос Москвы ), 2000, essay
  • "Snowman" ( Снеговик ), 2001
  • "Hiroshima" ( Хиросима ), 2001
  • “Look to tomorrow. Godzilla's Roar and Pikachu's Cries ”( Вид на завтра. Рев Годзиллы и крик Пикачу ), 2004, essay
  • "Kitchen" ( Кухня ), 2005
  • "Heart, please" ( Сердечная просьба ), 2005
  • "Goal" ( Мишень ), 2005
  • "Black horse with white eye" ( Черная лошадь с белым глазом ), 2005
  • "Waves" ( Волны ), 2005
  • Der Zuckerkreml ( Сахарный кремль ), 2008 (German by Andreas Tretner , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 3-4620-4226-2 )

Plays

  • Pelmeni (written 1984–1987), Premiere St. Petersburg, 1992 (DEA Münchner Kammerspiele, 1997; director: Peter Wittenberg)
  • Der Unterstand (written 1985), premiere theater group "School of Russian Presumption", Moscow, 1993 (director: Vadim Sakevic)
  • The Russian Grandmother (written 1988), UA Schauspiel Leipzig, 2001 (Director: Sascha Bunge)
  • Trust (written 1989)
  • Dysmorphomania (written 1990), premiere das schauspielhaus, Vienna, 1996 (director: Christian Stückl)
  • The snake - 17 variations on an anthropological theme , premiere Dresden Music Festival, 1992 (director: Carsten Ludwig)
  • The Obelisk , Premiere Festspielhaus Hellerau, 1993 (Direction: Carsten Ludwig)
  • The Jubilee (written in 1993), premiere at the Dresden State Theater, 1994 (director: Carsten Ludwig)
  • One month in Dachau , premiere Festspielhaus Hellerau, 1994 (director: Carsten Ludwig)
  • Honeymoon (written 1994/95), UA Volksbühne Berlin , 1995 (director: Frank Castorf )
  • Krautsuppe, deep-frozen (written 1995/96), premiere at Staatstheater Cottbus, 1999 (director: Michael Hase)
  • One month in Dachau , Premiere Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, 1996 (director: Dimiter Gotscheff)
  • Dostojevskij-Trip (written 1997; DEA Bremer Theater, 2001; director: Marlon Metzen)
  • Happy New Year (written 1998)
  • Libretto for the opera Дети Розенталя (“Rosenthal's Children”), UA Bolshoi Theater, Moscow, 2005
  • Theater adaptation of Лёд , premiere in the "Heimstatt" in front of the Jena Theater , December 2, 2010 (Director: Jan-Christoph Gockel)

Film scripts

  • Crazy Fritz ( Безумный Фриц ), 1994 (Directors: Tatiana Didenko and Alexander Shamaysky)
  • Moscow ( Москва ), 2001 (director: Alexander Zeldovich; first prize of the Bonn Film Festival; prize of the Federation of Russian Film Clubs for the best Russian film of the year)
  • Kopeke ( Копейка ), 2002 (Director: Ivan Dykhovichny; nominated for the Zolotoy Oven Prize for Best Screenplay)
  • 4 / Vier ( 4 / Четыре ), 2004 (Director: Ilja Chrschanowski; Grand Jury Prize at the Rotterdam International Film Festival)
  • The thing ( Вещь ; director: Ivan Dykhovichny; unfinished because the director died during production)
  • The Trap ( Ловушка ), 2009 (Director: Alexander Schurikhin)
  • Dau ( Дау ), 2010

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Sorokin  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Christine Engel : The struggle for the power of interpretation as a staged scandal - Vladimir Sorokin in the Bol'šoj Theater. In: Stefan Neuhaus, Johann Holzner (ed.): Literature as a scandal - cases - functions - consequences . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, pp. 707–717.
  2. Reinhard Kriechbaum: Manaraga. Diary of a master chef - Schauspielhaus Graz: “Keep your wood dry!” , Review on nachtkritik.de from October 9, 2019, accessed October 13, 2019
  3. Huy Van Jonny Diep: "Sorokin's" Manaraga "at Styrian Autumn: Decadence as Performance" , review in Der Standard from October 9, 2019, accessed October 13, 2019
  4. Vladimir Sorokin . International Literature Festival Berlin. 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
  5. a b Vladimir Sorokin , Decoder , January 26, 2017
  6. Interview with Wladimir Sorokin in Spiegel from August 6, 2002; First defeat for Sorokin , Spiegel from August 29, 2002.
  7. ^ Writer Vladimir Sorokin acquitted , Spiegel, April 25, 2003.
  8. ^ Government distances itself from literary censorship , Spiegel dated January 21, 2002.
  9. ^ APA: Gorky Prize to Vladimir Sorokin . Der Standard, Vienna. October 1, 2010. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
  10. MK: Сорокину отдали задолженное . Moskovsky Komsomolets. October 1st, 2010. Archived from the original on October 7th, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mk.ru
  11. Tobias Wenzel: Vladimir Sorokin: "Manaraga" Culinary Book Burning , review in Deutschlandfunk Kultur on November 7, 2018, accessed November 7, 2018
  12. Honeymoon (Svadebnoe putešestvie) in the database theatertexte.de
  13. https://www.derstandard.at/story/1285199825521/gorki-preis-an-vladimir-sorokin