Vladimir Germanovich Lidin

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Wladimir Germanowitsch Lidin (actually Gomberg ) ( Russian Владимир Германович Лидин ; scientific transliteration Vladimir Germanovič Lidin ; born on February 3 jul. / 15 February  1894 greg. In Moscow ; died on September 27, 1979 in Moscow) was a Russian - Soviet writer , bibliophile and professor of literature. He is primarily the author of stories in the tradition of Russian prose at the turn of the century.

Grave in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow (inscription on the gravestone: "Writer Wladimir Germanowitsch Lidin 1894-1979")

Live and act

Lidin is the son of a businessman and studied Oriental Studies at the Institute for Oriental Languages and Law, named after Ivan Lazarev , at the Law Faculty of Moscow University . The poets Dostoevsky , Chekhov and Bunin were influential in his work. At first he wrote about the life of the 'little people' in bourgeois society, later in particular about everyday life in the Soviet Union and modern city life. In 1916 a first collection of his prose pieces appeared. During the civil war he fought in the Red Army and was on various fronts, including in Siberia and Mongolia . During the Second World War he was a war correspondent for Izvestia and army newspapers. His experiences in the Great Patriotic War are reflected in his stories Sima 1941 ( winter 1941 ) . In the black book on the Holocaust and the crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union recording took his sketch Talnoje about the tragedy in the town in the Kiev area in the Ukraine . Lidin was friends with Ilja Ehrenburg . Lidin taught at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow . His memoirs appeared under the title Ljudi i wstretschi (“People and Encounters”). He is buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • The sixth door (Berlin, 1923) Шестая дверь «Книгоиздательство писателей» / Šestaja dver '
  • Weekdays of the Mice (1923) Myschinyje budni / Мышиные будни / Myšinye budni (1923)
  • Sea breeze (1923) Morskoi skwosnjak / Морской сквозняк / Morskoj skvoznjak
  • North (1925) North / Норд / North
  • Blue and yellow (1925) Goluboje i scholtoje / Голубое и жёлтое / Goluboe i žëltoe # cf. Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925 by Wassily Kandinsky
  • Idut korabli 1926 (The ships are sailing)
  • Goluboe rano (1926; German The golden fleece )
  • Otstupnik Отступник (1927). German "Der Abtrünnige", Drei Kegel Verlag, Berlin, 1928
  • Son of Man (1927) Syn tscheloweka Сын человека Syn čeloveka
  • The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (1932) Могила неизвестного солдата / Mogila neizvestnogo soldata
  • Weliki i Tichi 1933 (The Great or Silent Ocean)
  • Sima 1941 ( winter 1941 ) (1942)
  • Exile (1947) Isgnanije / Изгнание / Izgnanie
  • Dwe shisni / Dve žizni (1950; German two lives . Culture and progress, Berlin 1951)
  • Daljoji drug 1957 (The Distant Friend)
  • Powesti i rasskasy . Moscow 1958 (short stories and short stories)
  • Ljudi i wstretschi / Люди и встречи / Ljudi i vstreči (People and Encounters) (1957). memories
  • Drusja moi - knigi / Друзья мои - книги / Druz'ja moi - knigi (1962)
  • Vse časy vremeny (1972). narrative
  • Otraženija zvezd (1978). narrative

Collective editions of his works

  • Sobr. Soch. , 6 volumes, Moscow 1928/30
  • Sobranie sočinenij , 3 volumes (1973–74)

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ See his report on the exhumation of Gogol ( grupello.de - accessed on February 23, 2017).
  2. ↑ Ilja Ehrenburg , Wassili Grossman (ed.): The black book: the genocide of the Soviet Jews. German translation of the complete version, edited by Arno Lustiger . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .
  3. ↑ Das Schwarzbuch , German, p. 73 f.

literature

  • Wassili Grossman , Ilja Ehrenburg (ed.): The Black Book - The Genocide of the Soviet Jews. Rowohlt-Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 (editor of the German edition: Arno Lustiger ).
  • Arno Lustiger : Rotbuch: Stalin and the Jews The tragic history of the Jewish Antifascist Committee and the Soviet Jews. Structure of the Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin, 2. A. 2002 (first 1998, ISBN 3-351-02478-9 ).
  • Joshua Rubenstein, Ilya Altman : The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories. Indiana University Press, 2010.
  • Harri Jünger (ed.): Literatures of the peoples of the Soviet Union. Leipzig 1967, 2nd edition Leipzig 1968. Article: Lidin, eigl. Gomberg Wladimir Germanowitsch (from Fl. = Dr. H. Fliege [Erfurt]).
  • Maxim Shrayer: An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: 1801-1953. 2007 (partial view: a , b ).

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personal data
SURNAME Lidin, Vladimir Germanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gomberg, Wladimir Germanowitsch (real name); Lidine, Vladimir; Gomberg, Vladimir; Lidin, Vladimir; Лидин, Владимир; Лидин, Владимир Германович; Lidin, Vladimir; Lidin, Germanovich Vladimir; Gomberg, Germanovich Vladimir; Lidin, Woldemar; Lidin, Vladimir Germanovich; Gomberg, Vladimir Germanovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1979
Place of death Moscow