Volodymyr Sosyura

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Володимир Миколайович Сосюра
Transl. :	Volodymyr Mykolajovyč Sosjura
Transcr. :	Volodymyr Mykolaivytsch Sosjura
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Владимир Николаевич Сосюра
Transl .:	Vladimir Nikolajewič Sosjura
Transcr .:	Vladimir Nikolayevich Sosyura

Volodymyr Mykolajowytsch Sosjura (born December 25, 1897 ^July / January 6,  1898 ^greg. In Debaltseve ; † January 8, 1965 in Kiev ) was a Ukrainian poet.

Volodymyr Sosyura in the 1950s

Life

In 1917 Volodymyr Sosjura's career as a writer began with the publication of his first poem "Плач волн" in the newspaper "Голос рабочего", which in the same year printed his first Ukrainian poem "Уже не пора ли" and "поварte.

During the civil war Sosjura first fought under Symon Petljura in the Ukrainian People's Army against the German Imperial Army until he was captured by Denikin's volunteer army and sentenced to death. However, he managed to escape and, after the Ukrainian People's Army was defeated, he joined the Red Army .

After the civil war he studied from 1922 to 1923 at the Communist University of Artem in Kharkiv and from 1923 to 1925 at the Institute of Education (інститути народної освіти) in Kharkiv. Volodymyr Sosjura was torn between his identity as a Ukrainian and his sympathy for the communists throughout his life, as the collection "Сердце" from 1931 shows. However, his origin was always very important to him. In 1944 he wrote his poem "Любіть Україну" (scientific translit .: Ljubit 'Ukrajinu), which expresses this love and because of which he had to be accused of nationalistic thoughts by some contemporaries. Sosjura was married three times. He lived and died in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe Cemetery.

Poem “Любіть Україну” (excerpt)

" Любіть Україну, як сонце, любіть, як вітер, і трави, і води… В годину щасливу іго ву інце, во недо мит, (translit .: Ljubit 'Ukrajinu, jak sonce, ljubit', jak viter, i travy, i vody… V hodynu ščaslyvu iv radosti myt ', ljubit' u hodynu nehody.) "Ukraine love like the sun, like the wind, the meadows and waters, in the hour of happiness and joy as well as in the hour of misfortune. "

He was influenced by various styles and currents such as impressionism , symbolism and romanticism . He was considered a socialist realist and was a proletarian poet, which can be seen most clearly in his collection “Червона зима” from 1921. This work made Sosjura known. He was a member of the literary institutes “Pluh”, “Vaplite”, “Hart” and the “Association of All Ukrainian and Proletarian Writers” (Vseukrainska spilka proletarskykh pysmennykiv or VUSPP)

Works (selection)

• “Red Winter” (1921) “Червона зима” (scientific translit .: Červona zyma)
• “Autumn of the Stars” (1924) “Осенние звезды” (scientific translit .: Osennie zvezdy)
• “Today” (1925) “Сегодня” (scientific translit .: Segodnja)
• “Golden Dragons” (1927) “Золотые коршуны” (wiss. Translit .: Zolotye koršuny)
• “When the acacias bloom” (1928) “Когда зацветут акации” (scientific translit .: Kogda zacvetut akacii)
• “Heart” (1931) “Серце” (wiss. Translit .: Serce)
• “Tretja rota” (1988) “Третя Рота” (scientific translit .: Tretja Rota)
• “Answer” (1932) “Відповідь” (scientific translit .: Vidpovid ')
• “Red Guardsman” (1940) “Червоногвардієць” (scientific translit .: Červonohvardijec ')
• “Loves Ukraine” (1944) “Любіть Україну” (wiss. Translit .: Ljubit 'Ukrajinu)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Internet Encyclopedie of Ukraine, Volodymyr Sosiura
2. ^ Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Institute of People's Education
3. ↑ Dmitrij Tschižewskij. A history of Ukrainian literature, From the 11th to the End of the 19th Century
4. ↑ Kyiv: Encyclopedic Reference; Published by AB Kudrytskoho. - K:. Home Edition Soviet Ukrainian Encyclopedia, 1981, page 736
5. ↑ Volodymyr Sosjura, Ljibit´Ukrajinu in the original
6. ↑ Jutta Sommerbauer in "die Presse". Return to a city in ruins

Web links

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