Igor Severyanin
Igor Severianin (Russian Игорь Северянин, actually Igor Vasilyevich Lotarjow - Игорь Васильевич Лотарёв, .. * 4 Maijul / 16 May 1887greg in Saint Petersburg, † December 20, 1941 in Tallinn) was a Russian poet.
Life
The father of Igor Severianin, Vasily Petrovich Lotarjow, was a military engineer, his mother, Natalia Stepanovna, descended from the noble family 's shin. Maternal Severianin with the Russian poet Afanassi Afanassjevitch Fet and the Russian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin writer and historian was related. Also there was a maternal relationship to Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai.
1896, after the divorce of the parents, the son moved in with his father in the neighborhood of Cherepovets. 1904 his father died, it was followed by the move to Gatchina, the place of residence of the mother.
His first release in 1905 was unsuccessful. 1907 Igor learns to know the poet Konstantin Fofanow. 1909 came his booklet entitled Intuitive colors in the hands of Leo Tolstoy. The convinced realist expressed his outrage public. This incident drew the attention of the public to Severianin. Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov praised his poems.
First, an elite Salonpoet, he founded in 1911 a new philosophy of life of the Russian society of artists - the ego - futurism. By way of derogation from the western Futurism of Marinetti, the numerous groups of Russian Futurism have developed in different directions. So there was the ego - Futurist poet association since the end of 1912 to continue without its founder. Fyodor Sologub wrote a preface to Sewerjanins band Donnerschäumende cup ( 1913), which opens with the words A new star began.
Severianin remained in his poetry the basic idea of revolutionizing the poetic vocabulary faithful to the creation of neologisms, experimentation in terms of verse structure and imagery ( expressed metaphors ). It 2500 new lexemes were detected, the Severianin brought into the language of Russian poetry. His work also based on surprise and provocation, exaggerated emotionality and fantastic visions. Another feature of Severianin is the frequent use of French expressions, technical, fashion and culinary foreign words and internationalisms. His poems he called often unconventional ( eg, as a " story", " tale of a traveler " or " poeza ").
Severianin traveled at that time with his performances not only by Russia, he joined in fashionable circles and literary salons in Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Poland, Finland, France and Romania ( total counting 1910-1918 135 impressively staged recitation evenings, so-called Poezo - konzerty ) and thus gained a certain notoriety. On February 27, 1918 Severianin was elected at a meeting in Moscow poet to poet-king.
After 1918, the political events of his success granted a no more room. Severianin retired, initially welcomed the Bolshevik seizure of power, but later took a critical position, and finally emigrated to Estonia. In 1921 he married Felissa Kruut. His poetry at this time additionally get a nostalgic touch. He lived in the fishing village Toila in Estonia and published in Berlin ( during his exile in Russia was not a single work by him published).
Only in the year 1975 a small volume of selected poems was published. Since 1995, a Severianin Prize is awarded annually in Russia.
Works
Programmatic writings
Poetry
Works in German translation
- Pineapples in champagne. Poesen. Selected. and from the Russ. speak. by Alexander Nitzberg. Long, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-9801472-1-5 (Text German and Russian)