Yodgor Obid

Yodgor Obid (German also Jodgor ; born December 15, 1940 in Tashkent ) is an Uzbek writer .

biography

Yodgor Obid was born on December 15, 1940 in Tashkent in what was then the USSR. He worked in many different professions, including collective farm workers, construction workers and blast furnace workers. At the same time he was already writing poems and composing poems.

From 1975 to 1981 he was admitted to the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow to study literature . At the same time, his books began to appear and were sold and read with great success throughout Central Asia . Yodgor Obid became one of the most important and well-known poets of Uzbekistan , who knows how to combine traditional forms with modern content and thus become a "poet of the people". From the mid-1980s, his seals could no longer appear officially in the USSR.

Yodgor Obid became involved in 1989 as a member of the Uzbek civil rights movement "Birlik" (Unity), which in times of perestroika and glasnost promoted democracy and civil rights in Uzbekistan by peaceful means. The protests culminated in large demonstrations in Tashkent and other cities, which were bloodily suppressed. The leaders of the democracy movement have either been killed, thrown in prison or driven abroad. Yodgor Obid fled across the Caucasus to Moscow, where he worked for Radio Liberty for several years . Nevertheless, he is subjected to further persecution from Uzbekistan, which is now dictatorially ruled by the former General Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party , Islom Karimov .

In 1996, Obid was awarded the Human Rights Watch organization in Helsinki. In 1997 he fled to Austria and was the first to receive a scholarship as part of the Graz project - City of Refuge from 1996–1998. During this time he lived on the town's Schloßberg . From 1998 to 2000 he received a scholarship in Götzis in Vorarlberg, in 1998 he was granted the status of “political asylum seeker” in Austria. In 2003 he obtained Austrian citizenship, he lives and works in Austria. In 2007 he became a member of the Exil-PEN center for writers in exile in German-speaking countries.

Jodgor Obid coined the term Baschism for the current political system in Uzbekistan , a play on words from fascism and Bolshevism .

In literary terms, Yodgor Obid combines traditional forms of Central Asian poetry with current content to create strong, melancholy and rhythmically memorable poems. Its content revolves around longing for home, love, the suffering of the Uzbek people and hope. Despite his exile, Yodgor Obid is still one of the most famous and certainly most important poets of Uzbekistan.

bibliography

1975 “The fairy tale of the swan”, children's book; "The view"
1977 "Destiny"
1980 "Stars on your eyelashes"
1985 "The Conversation"
1996 ”Die Rebellion”, (published in Sweden) - ”Bonu”, (published in Sweden)
1998 “Das goldene Schiff” poems, Uzbek-German (The first publication by an Uzbek author in German, Verlag Leykam, Graz)
2000 CDs of poems, read poems in Uzbek and German language
2002 “The Enchanted Dragon Cave” Märchenpoem, German - “Mountains give me your heart” poems, usb-dt.
2007 Contribution (poems) to the anthology "Halbwegs zum Himmel", Leykam Verlag, Graz

as well as numerous poetry translations into Uzbek from French, Spanish, Hungarian, Russian.

2006 From the collection of poems "Das goldene Schiff" compositions "Songs of a stranger," commissioned by the Vorarlberger Chorvervband to Mag. Thomas Thurnher, geb. 1966 in Dornbirn, studied church music and composition in Vienna at the Feldkirch State Conservatory with Herbert Willi, presented on November 26, 2006 by selected choirs at the Feldkirch State Conservatory in Vorarlberg . The poet Yodgor Obid was present himself. Was recorded by the ORF.
August 3, 2007: The poet's first "TELECECHANA". Reading of his works from a "virtual Uzbek tea house" in KB5 Kirchbach in Styria and a lecture hall on the campus of State University Indiana in Bloomington (USA) in cooperation with the ACES Association of Central Eurasian Students at Indiana University using a video conference system. The tea house character was u. a. supported by the fact that green tea was served to the public at both locations.
5th January 2008: First broadcast of his 4-week literary magazine "Radio Cheichana" on the alternative radio station Radio Helsinki in Graz . The content of the Uzbek-German language magazine is poetry and culture from Uzbekistan and Central Asia.
June 2012: Jodgor Obid's new book "The Caller in the Desert" (200 poems written in Uzbek) is published by Lulu.com. This is his first book in 10 years.

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personal data
SURNAME	Obid, Yodgor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Obid, Jodgor (German spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Uzbek poet
DATE OF BIRTH	December 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tashkent