Zenta Mauriņa
Zenta maurina [ Zenta maʊ̯riɲa ] (* December 15 1897 in Lejasciems at Gulbene, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, † April 25, 1978 in Basel) was a Latvian writer.
Life
Her father was Robert Maurin Latvian district physician, her mother Melanie maurina (born squire ) is a German -born pianist from Saint Petersburg. Zenta maurina grew up trilingual: they spoke German, Latvian and Russian.
Soon after her birth, the family moved to Grobiņa east of Liepaja ( Libau ). At the age of five, she contracted polio and was henceforth to independent locomotion to the use of a wheelchair dependent. In 1915, she placed at the Russian school in Liepāja her high school with honors. In 1921 she took a degree in philosophy and Baltic Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy and the University of Riga philological, graduated in 1929 some time in Heidelberg and held 1936/37 lectures in Florence, Rome and Paris. In 1938 she graduated in Riga to Dr. phil.
In 1944, she fled from the Soviets to Germany and lived from 1946 in Uppsala, Sweden, where she remained until 1966. Then she moved to Bad Krozingen (south of Freiburg im Breisgau ), on the cemetery she is buried. Zenta maurina was married to the author Konstantin Raudive.
Work
The work is characterized by its three languages and the description of the fate of Latvia between freedom and oppression in the 20th century:
- The long journey ( autobiography, as well as the following four items)
- Because the risk is beautiful
- Break the bars of iron:
- My Song of the Earth
- Northern and southern lands ( Swedish diaries 1946-1951 )
- Years of Liberation ( Swedish diaries 1951-1958 )
- Letters from exile
- Every night shining golden star ( poems)
- In the course of life ( novel)
- In the beginning the joy ( stories ) was
- The marble staircase ( stories )
- Death in Spring ( short stories )
- Mosaic of the heart ( essays )
- Beloved life - life lived ( essays )
- On the threshold of two worlds ( essays )
- Alienation and friendship ( essays )
- Forms and fates ( essays )
- About Love and Death ( essays )
- Forms and fates ( essays )
- World unity and the task of the individual ( essays )
- Portraits of Russian writers ( essays )
- Small Orchestra of Hope ( Essays on the eastern and western literature)
- Dostoyevsky ( Biography )