Wladislaw Felizianowitsch Khodassewitsch

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Vladislav Khodasevich, around 1910
Vladislav Khodasevich and his wife Nina Nikolayevna Berberova in the villa of the communist writer Maxim Gorky in Sorrento (1925)

Vladislav Khodasevich ( Russian Владислав Фелицианович Ходасевич ; born May 16 . Jul / 28. May  1886 greg. In Moscow ; † 14. June 1939 in Paris ) is one of the most important Russian poet of the so-called Silver Age . So far, Khodasevich has remained largely unknown in the German-speaking world.

Life

Khodasevich was a poet, prose writer, translator and literary critic. He came from a noble Polish family, was of Jewish origin and married to the writer Nina Berberowa . His mother was Sofija Jakowlewna (1846-1911), the daughter of the Russian anti-Semitic publicist Jakow Brafman (1824-1879), his older brother Mikhail F. Khodasevich (1865-1925) a well-known Russian lawyer. Khodasevich was in contact with Valery Bryusov , with Maxim Gorky , at whose invitation he was staying in Sorrento, and with Andrei Bely , with whom he associated in Berlin and later broke up. Khodasevich's volumes of poetry The Way of the Corn (Путём зерна, 1917), Heavy Lyre (Тяжёлая лира, 1923) and the cycle European Night (Европейская ночь, 1927) are among the most important lyric works of the 20th century in Russian literature. His reviews promoted the career of the young Vladimir Nabokov , who set a respectful monument to Khodasevich in his autobiography. Khodasevich also wrote a 1931 biography about the Russian writer Gavriil Derschavin (Державин, 1931, 2007 into English, but not yet translated into German). Khodasevich's wife Berberova describes in her autobiography I come from St. Petersburg the life with her husband in the poverty of exile.

Khodasevich's life was shaped by exile: he lived in Berlin from June 1922 to November 1923. In 1923 he emigrated to Prague, then to Paris. In 1932 the separation from Berberova took place. Shortly before his death, his work on Alexander Pushkin was published (О Пушкине, 1937). In his memory book Necropolis (Некрополь, 1938), Khodasevich describes his encounters with important writers, besides Belyj and Brusov also with Alexander Blok , Mikhail Gerschenzon (1869-1925), Nikolai Gumiljow , Fyodor Sologub and also reports on the background to the creation of the novel Der fiery angel (Огненный ангел, 1907-1908, Ger. 1910) by Brjussow, the template for the opera Der fierige Engel (1927) by Sergei Prokofjew . The book appeared a few weeks before his death. Khodasevich died in exile in Paris in 1939.

Works

  • European night . Selected poems. German by Kay Borowsky . Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1985.
    • New edition: European Night , Selected Poems 1907-1927. bilingual edition; translated by Adrian Wanner. With an essay by Vladimir Nabokov. Arco Verlag, Wuppertal 2014.
  • Necropolis. Memories of the golden age . Translated from the Russian by Eric Boerner. OO 2011.
  • Necropolis. Portraits, essays, memories . Edited and translated by Frank Göbler; Afterword by Alexei Makushinsky. Helmut Lang Verlag, Münster 2016

Letters

  • Sinaida Hippius: Different gloss: poems, letters to Nina Berberova and Wladislaw Chodassewitsch. Translated from the Russian by Kay Borowsky (poems) and Johanne Peters (letters). Edited by Siegfried Heinrichs. Oberbaum-Verlag, Berlin 2002 (German / Russian).

literature

  • Frank Göbler: Vladislav F. Chodasevič. Duality u. Distance as the main features of his poetry. Diss. Munich 1988. (Works and texts on Slavic Studies, Vol. 43)

Web links

Commons : Vladislav Khodasevich  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Urban : Russian writers in Berlin in the twenties. Berlin 2003, p. 147. ISBN 3-89479-097-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Khodasevich, Wladislaw Felizianowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ходасевич, Владислав Фелицианович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1939
Place of death Paris