Leonid Lvovich Vaidman (1940-2008) - Soviet, then German Russian-language journalist and writer. Honored Worker of Culture of the Kazakh SSR (1985). He worked under the pseudonym Willy Weide.
| Leonid Weidman | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | May 1, 1940 |
| Place of Birth | from. Taldy-Kurgan ( Alma-Ata region ) |
| Date of death | 2008 |
| A place of death | Germany |
| Occupation | prose writer , journalist |
| Genre | prose, essay, novel |
| Language of Works | Russian , German |
Content
- 1 Career
- 2 books
- 3 Sources
- 4 notes
Career
Leonid Vaidman was born on May 1, 1940 in Taldy-Kurgan [1] in a family of Germans deported from Volyn.
After graduating from high school in 1957, he worked at the Red Banner Publishing House. He graduated from Kazakh State University (evening department) and went to work in the newspaper German-language newspaper Kazakhstan Freundshaft ("Friendship"), later became its editor in chief. In the late 1980s, he worked in the newspaper Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, and held the position of head of the ideological department of the newspaper.
Twice winner of the Prize of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan (1965 and 1988) and the prize of the Union of Journalists of the USSR (1990) [1] for a series of articles on topical issues of modern ethnology “Confiscation of the Motherland (Crimean Tatars)”, “Nakhcho (on the eve of the first Chechen war)”, “ Not ancient, but Greek (deportation of the Greeks to Kazakhstan) ”,“ Truth is worth living (Russian colonization of Kazakhstan) ”,“ Ataman Golkov (about Siberian Cossacks) ”.
Honored Worker of Culture of the Kazakh SSR (1985).
In 1993-1995, the chief editor of the Phoenix almanac.
In 1995, he left for permanent residence in Germany.
He released four collections of essays - “Notes by a reporter”, “Tell me, who is your friend?”, “Kiss of Judas”, “A moment between the past and the future”.
The story "Gray fog at dawn" by the publishing house "Zhalyn" was included in the collection "In the steppe region."
He died on January 18, 2008.
Books
- Weidman L. L. Kiss of Judah. - Alma-Ata: Kazakhstan, 1976. - 136 p.
- Weidman. Forbidden people. Novel. Phoenix, No. 10-12
Sources
- Writers of Kazakhstan: reference book / ed. L. Zolotova; comp .: N. Grekhovodov, V. Danilyuk. - Alma-Ata: Zhazushi, 1969 .-- 368 p. - 24,000 copies.
- Writers of Kazakhstan: reference book / comp .: M. Auezov, Қ. Zhorabekov, R. Zhanguzhin. - Alma-Ata: Zhazushi, 1982.- 280 p. - 32,000 copies.
- Phönix, Issues 1-2; Issue 4. Internationaler Verband der Deutschen Kultur Redakt͡sii͡a almanakha “Feniks Persons”, 1993
- http://lyakhov.kz/chronicle/08/pomin08.shtml