Eugen Ruge ( German: Eugen Ruge , born June 24, 1954, Sosva , Sverdlovsk Region , USSR ) - German writer, director and translator of Chekhov . Winner of the German Book Award 2011 [3] [4]
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Biography
Eugen Ruge was born in the family of Wolfgang Ruge in 1940-1950 who was in exile in the North Urals ITL (Sevurallag) , and on his return to East Germany (GDR) he became a prominent historian of the labor and left movement. At the age of two years, Eugen Ruge with his parents moved to East Berlin .
Eugen received a mathematical education in Berlin University. Humboldt , worked as a researcher at the Central Institute of Physics of the Earth Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1986 he focused on the activities of the writer, documentary and screenwriter. Since 1988 he has been living in Germany , writing for theater, radio and documentary films, has translated several plays by A. Chekhov into German.
Works
The debut novel by Eugen Ruge “Days of Diminishing Light” (“ In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts ”), 2011), was awarded the German Book Award as the best novel of 2011 in German language [5] and a number of other literary awards, staged in Berlin's German Theater ( Director: Stefan Kimmig , 2013) and screened (directed by Matti Geshonnek , 2017). The Russian translation of the novel was published in 2017 by the publishing house “Logos” (Moscow).
From the annotation to the Russian edition of the novel “Days of Diminishing Light”:
| "Private stories told in the first person by representatives of 4 generations of East German family are skillfully connected in a multi-voiced, accentuated as tragic, then comic and ridiculous, but always remaining personal representation of the five decades of the history of the GDR as a history of depletion of utopian projects (communism and real socialism) , the descent of history itself as a utopia. " |
In 2013, Ruge's second novel was released: Cabo de Gata (Cabo de Gata), in 2016, the third: “Follower. 14 sentences about a fictional grandson ”, - representing a kind of“ continuation ”of the stories of the characters in the novel“ Days of Diminishing Light ”.
Bibliography
- Novels
- In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts. Roman einer familie. - Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2011. - ISBN 978-3-498-05786-2 .
- Russian edition: Ruge O. Days of diminishing light / transl. with him. Elena Stern; ed. S. Gorodetsky and O. Nikiforova. - M .: “Logos”, 2017. - 376 p. - (letterra.org project). - ISBN 978-9934-8559-4-8 .
- Cabo de Gata. Roman. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-05795-4
- Follower - Vierzehn Sätze über einen fiktiven Enkel. Roman, 2016. Rowohlt, ISBN 978-3-498-05805-0
Notes
- ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database - 1995.
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ Laut Bekanntgabe des Preisträgers am 10. Oktober 2011 im Frankfurter Römer. Live-Übertragung durch Deutschlandradio Kultur .
- ↑ Mitteilung Archival copy dated October 12, 2011 at the Wayback Machine auf der Seite des Deutschen Buchpreises, abgerufen am 10. Oktober 2011.
- ↑ Kino- und Buchjubel: "In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts" (German) . br.de.