Kohler, Gun-Britt, 2003 Boris de Schloezer (1881-1969). Ways out of Russian emigration. Cologne: Böhlau. (395 S.).
ISBN3-412-13302-7 The first monograph on the Russian-French music critic, literary critic, philosopher and translator Boris de Schloezer was produced as part of a dissertation project in the years 1997-2000. Boris de Schloezer is one of the little-known intellectuals of the first Russian emigration to France during the interwar years. A close confidant of the composer Aleksandr Scriabin and the Russian-Jewish philosopher Lev Isaakovičestov, as well as being connected to Russian and French intellectual circles of his time, Schloezer offers access to the practice of cultural dialogue between French and Russian exiles against the background of his work, which extends into various disciplines. His work in music and literary criticism, journalism, translation, art theory and literature documents the fact that he essentially experienced and utilised the difficult situation of the emigrant as a mediator: In the multi-layered process of his activities, he conveys elements of the Russian cultural and intellectual heritage into the French context and situates them within the current debates of the time. The study traces Schloezer's transition from the Russian to the French intellectual context step by step and is supplemented by a bibliography of Schloezer's work, which is scattered across numerous organs.

Conferences

• October 2004 in Thorn: Biography(s) between cultures and nations in Central and East-Central European cultural transfer