Alexander Estis Explained

Birth Date:20 September 1986
Native Name:Александр Николаевич Эстис
Native Name Lang:ru
Language:German, Russian
Occupation:Writer, translator, journalist

Alexander Estis (Russian: Александр Николаевич Эстис; born 20 September 1986 in Moscow) is a Russian-Swiss author, translator and journalist. His writing is mainly in German.

Biography

Alexander Estis was born into the Jewish family of Soviet artists and . From childhood, he studied drawing attending art schools and private lessons. In 1996, he moved with his parents to Hamburg.

He finished the Johannes Brahms High School in Pinneberg in 2004 and graduated from the Language Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg in 2010. He has taught drawing, Latin, German, and modern German literature at the (Hamburg) and Collège Calvin (Geneva) as well as medieval German literature and historical linguistics at the universities of Hamburg, Freiburg, Geneva, Zurich and the School of Management and Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences/ZHAW.

Since 2016, Estis has been living in Aarau. As an active participant in the literary process of the German-speaking community, he delivers lectures on literature, teaches courses in literary studies, and appears regularly on the radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

As a writer, Estis works mainly in the genre of flash fiction (aphorisms, lyrical and stage miniatures, glosses, micronarratives, epigrams, essays), combining elements of essayism and speculative fiction, satirical and tragic devices, as well as traditional and rhythmic prose. He collaborates with German publishers [1] and,[2] at the same time contributing as a reviewer, observer and columnist to leading German-language media, including Die Zeit,[3] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,[4] Frankfurter Rundschau,[5] Neues Deutschland,[6] Süddeutsche Zeitung,[7] The European[8] (Germany), Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[9] WOZ Die Wochenzeitung[10] (Switzerland). He is the author of seven short prose books: Utterances of a Russian (2019), Statements on the Cultural Sector (2019), Stories of Langenthal Words (2021), The Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Soul (2021), Lime Legends (2022), The Rondell (2022), Escapes (2023). His prosaic works, translations, critical and philological articles have been published in Sinn und Form (Germany), (Austria), (Switzerland), , , Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Russia) and other noted literary magazines and newspapers.

Alexander Estis is a member of the and the German . He has won several literary prizes and grants, including the (Germany, 2020),[11] the (Switzerland, 2020–2021),[12] the Dortmund (Germany, 2022),[13] and the Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Germany, 2023).[14]

Family

Alexander Estis is the son of artists (b. 1937) and (1957–2000). His paternal half-sister and half-brother are museum specialist Elena Estis (b. 1958) and artist (1964–1999).

References

Sources cited

Bibliography

In Russian

Books

In German

Translations

Into German

Articles

In German

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

In English

2023

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alexander Estis – Sprüche des Russen. hochroth Verlag. 2023. August 16, 2023.
  2. Web site: Alexander Estis. parasitenpresse. 2023. August 16, 2023.
  3. Web site: Alexander Estis. Zeit Online. 2024. July 18, 2024.
  4. Web site: Alexander Estis. FAZ.NET. 2024. July 18, 2024. (Suche: Alexander Estis)
  5. Web site: Alexander Estis. FR.de. 2024. July 18, 2024.
  6. Web site: Alexander Estis. nd.Aktuell. 2024. July 18, 2024.
  7. Web site: Alexander Estis. SZ.de. 2024. July 18, 2024.
  8. Web site: Alexander Estis. The European. 2024. July 18, 2024.
  9. Web site: Alexander Estis. NZZ. 2024. July 18, 2024.
  10. Web site: Alexander Estis. WOZ Die Wochenzeitung. 2024. July 18, 2024.
  11. Web site: Alexander Estis erhält Rolf-Bossert-Gedächtnispreis. parasitenpresse. August 31, 2021. August 16, 2023.
  12. Web site: Sabanovic, Kanita. Plötzlich ging alles ganz schnell. Berner Zeitung. July 18, 2020. August 16, 2023.
  13. Web site: Dortmunds vierter "Stadtbeschreiber" kommt aus der Schweiz: Alexander Estis folgt auf Elias Hirschl. Stadtportal dortmund.de. October 19, 2022. August 16, 2023.
  14. Web site: Presseerklärung zur Vergabe des Kurt-Tucholsky-Literaturpreises im Jahr 2023. Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft. September 18, 2023. September 25, 2023.