“Берлинский доклад“ Сергея Третьякова и концепция “оперативного писателя“
Sergei Tretyakov’s “Berlin Lecture” and the Concept of the “Operative Writer”

Summary/Abstract: In 1930–1931 Tretyakov travelled across several European countries, engaging with left-wing intellectual and artistic circles. In January 1931, during a lecture in Berlin titled “The Writer and the Socialist Village,” he gave his first detailed presentation of his concept of the “operative writer”. The concept challenged conventional notions of literary production and the social role of the professional author. Instead of viewing the writer as a detached observer or creator of autonomous works, Tretyakov proposed an active participant in social processes — an author directly involved in organizing, documenting, and transforming reality, particularly within the context of socialist construction. This paper examines the concept developed by Tretyakov within the broader context of Soviet-German intellectual and artistic ties of the time. Attention is drawn to the fact that the term “operative writer” could have been coined by Tretyakov precisely as a result of his stay in Germany.

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