Elena Seifert

Elena Seifert (Russian: Елена Ивановна Зейферт, born 1973 in Karaganda, Kazakh SSR) is a Kazakh-Russian poet, translator, literary critic, and journalist. She publishes in both German and Russian.

She was awarded the Russian-German Culture Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg.^[1]

Early life and education

lena Seifert is of Russian-German descent on her father's side. She is a graduate of the Philology Department at Karagandy State University in Kazakhstan, and also worked at the university for 13 years as a lecturer and instructor.

In 1999, Elena Seifert studied at the Abia State University of Alma-Ata. There she defended her diploma thesis «Жанр отрывка в русской поэзии первой трети XIX века» (English: An Insight into Russian Poetry of the First Third of the 19th Century). In 2008, Seifert defended her doctoral thesis («Janrovye процессы в поэзии российских немцев второй половины XX – начала XXI вв.", (English: Genre processes in the poetry of Russian Germans in the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.) at Moscow State University.^[2]

Career

The German-born poet, author of over 200 scholarly works (including monographs and textbooks), teaches Latin theory and literary history. She has also published numerous journalistic and artistic articles in magazines, including children's books.

Elena Seifert is a prize-winner of international literary competitions, a member of the International Association of German Culture, and editor-in-chief of an almanac that publishes anthologies of literary works, primarily by Russian-German authors. She chairs and serves on the juries of various literary competitions in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Germany, and is a member of the editorial board of the magazine AMANAT in Alma-Ata and of the literary anthology "The Voices of Siberia," based in Kemerovo, Russia.

Works

• Russian State University for the Humanities; Seifert, Elena Ivanovna; Moscow State Linguistic University (2024). "A. S. PUSHKIN'S WORK ON THE INTONATION SYSTEM IN THE BRONZE HORSEMAN" (PDF). Russkaya Literatura. 2: 76–91. doi:10.31860/0131-6095-2024-2-76-91.

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