Olha Kobylianska

Olha Kobylanska (Ukrainian Ольга Кобилянська; born November 27, 1863 in Gura - Humora, Bukovina, Empire Austria, † March 21, 1942 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Greater Romania ) was a Ukrainian writer.

Life

Olha came from a Ukrainian paternal, maternal from a Polish- German family ( Werner). The father was a small kk official who had to care for seven children. Therefore, the family moved around, living in the cities südbukowinischen Suczawa and Kimpolung, later in nordbukowinischen Dymka village, and came to Czernowitz in 1891.

After four years of elementary school in her home village to Olha formed on self-taught. A large role in their spiritual development played the German literature, especially Goethe, Heine, Keller, Spielhagen captain and Marlitt. Important to her were also Scandinavian authors such Jakobsen, Ibsen and Strindberg and Russian poets such as Tolstoy and Turgenev.

A noticeable impact on Olhas work had the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Among other things, these were the dichotomy top - bottom, the motif of loneliness, the idea of the superman and the concept of eternal recurrence.

Your first literary attempts in the Polish language was not a success. In the late 1880s she began to write in German. Her early stories and sketches were published in the gazebo, in Westermann's Monatshefte and in the Viennese magazine Ruthenian Revue. In Bruns appeared in Minden 1901, the German short story collection Little Russian novels.

The national awakening of Ukraine and its writers Ukrainka, Fedkowytsch, Franko and Shevchenko encouraged them in their desire to be a Ukrainian writer. With Lesya Ukrainka, Vasyl Stefanyk and Ossyp Makowej she was friends. So she wrote from the mid-1890s, especially in the Ukrainian language.

Work

As an early champion of women's emancipation Olha involved at that time in the organization of the Association of the Ruthenian women of Bukovina. Your reflects this attitude in their literary forms, eg in mélancholique Valse (1894 ), Man, Impromptu fantasy, The Princess and The Natural (all 1895), The aristocrat ( 1898) and Niobe (1905 ). With these works, it is considered in Ukrainian literature as a pioneer of the neo-Romantic Modern.

To Olhas important prose works include her novel from the peasant life Flounder (1902 ), which transmits the Cain and Abel motif on village conflicts in Bukovina and next to Émile Zola's The Earth is one of the best representations of this theme in world literature. The lyrical- romantic story Sunday morning herb cleared for motives of a Ukrainian folk song is a socially colored love tragedy.

The novel The mob Apostles ( 1936) provides a deep insight into the Ukrainian intelligentsia in the way of national consciousness, who was considered a nationalist in the Soviet era and was banned.

Between 1927 and 1929 complete works appeared in the Ukrainian Kharkiv Olhas in nine volumes. Some prose works have been dramatized and belong to the repertoire of Ukrainian theater. Flounder was filmed in 1954.

Honors

Since 1944 is in the Chernivtsi Olha - Kobylanska Museum with a branch in Dymka, Chernivtsi Oblast. The city of Chernivtsi theater was named after her. Preceded by her beautiful bronze monument. The former Mr. Lane was named after her.

Source

  • Peter Rykhlo, Oleg Liubkivskyj: Literature city of Chernivtsi, 2nd, revised edition. Chernivtsi 2009, pp. 73-79
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