Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinowitsch

Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Woinowitsch ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Войнович , scientific transliteration Vladimir Nikolaevič Vojnovič ; born September 26, 1932 in Stalinabad , Tajik SSR ; † July 27, 2018 in Moscow ) was a Russian writer . He is considered one of the most important satirists of his time.

Vladimir Voinovich (2010)

Life

Woinowitsch worked, among other things, as a shepherd, carpenter, aircraft mechanic and railroad worker as well as radio editor before he published his first works in 1956. Initially, this included national hymns of praise for the “heroes” of actually existing socialism.

In the years from 1963 to 1970, however, he wrote the picaresque novel The Memorable Adventures of Soldier Ivan Chonkin , a satirical reckoning with the political system of the Soviet Union . With the dumb title hero, who was the main character in another novel (Ivan Chonkin, heir to the throne) , Woinowitsch created a figure who - like Jaroslav Hašek's soldier Schweik - leads the conditions under the Stalin dictatorship to absurdity by himself Strictly subject to conditions and obey all orders without contradiction.

The first Tschonkin novel made Woinowitsch known in the West. Its publication and the support given by the author to the human rights movement in the Soviet Union resulted in Voinovich being expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union in 1974 and expatriated in 1980. The writer then left the Soviet Union and lived in Munich until 1990 .

Woinowitsch was officially rehabilitated in 1990 and received several awards, most recently with the Russian State Prize for the novel Aglaja Rewkina’s last love . Since his rehabilitation he has been commuting between Munich and Moscow , where he lived again. His works have so far been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2016 he was awarded the Lew Kopelew Prize .

Works

(Selection)

• The memorable adventures of the soldier Ivan Chonkin. Diogenes Verlag 1975, filmed in 1994. ISBN 978-3-257-20628-9
• Ivan Tschonkin, heir apparent. , Diogenes 1979. ISBN 978-3-257-21306-5
• In good Russian or Who I could have become. Diogenes Verlag, 1982. ISBN 978-3-257-01633-8
• Pen pals , 1976
• Two friends , 1967
• You are on the right track, comrades. Piper Verlag GmbH, 1986. ISBN 978-3-492-03004-5
• Aglaya Revkina's last love. Berlin Verlag, 2002. ISBN 978-3-827-00076-7
• Incident in the Metropol. My amazing KGB file. Piper, 1994. ISBN 978-3-492-03733-4
• Continent III
• Moscow 2042. Piper, 1986. ISBN 978-3-492-11043-3
• The cap. Piper, 1990. ISBN 978-3-492-11305-2

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Voinowitsch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Woinowitsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• “Москва 2042”. Владимир Войнович читает свой роман. (mp3) In: Radio Swoboda . May 27, 2007(Russian, "Moscow 2042": Vladimir Woinowitsch reads from his novel). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Died writer Vladimir Voinovich. In: The Koz Times. July 28, 2018, archived from the original on July 28, 2018 ; accessed on August 4, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Russian author claims: “The result of the Duma election in Russia has long been certain”. In: Focus Online . September 16, 2016, accessed July 28, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Not to be confused with the book by Roman Frister : Die Mütze or The Price of Life from 1997.