Akiyuki Nosaka

Akiyuki Nosaka ( Japanese 野 坂 昭 如 , Nosaka Akiyuki ; born October 10, 1930 in Kamakura , † December 9, 2015 in Chiyoda ) was a Japanese writer , singer , poet and politician. As a copywriter for television he used the pseudonym Yukio Aki ( 阿木 由 紀 夫 , Aki Yukio ), as a chansonnier the name Claude Nosaka .

biography

Akiyuki Nosaka was born in Kamakura in 1930, the son of Sukeyuki Nosaka, then Vice-Governor of Niigata Prefecture . Since his mother died in childbirth, Akiyuki and his sisters were adopted by a couple from Kobe .

One of his sisters died of illness in his youth, and his adoptive father was killed in an American bombing raid on Kobe in 1945. Shortly afterwards, another sister died of malnutrition caused by the war. Nosaka later processed these traumatic experiences in the story The Tomb of the Fireflies .

When Nosaka became a war orphan due to this stroke of fate in 1945, he wandered around for two years until he was sent to an educational institution for theft. From 1948 he went back to school and found his birth father again. He dropped out of studies, then became a singer, magazine columnist, copywriter and took on various odd jobs.

It was not until 1963 that he received widespread recognition with the publication of the novel Japanese Delights . This was filmed in 1966 by Shōhei Imamura with the German title Introduction to Human Studies .

His work The Tomb of the Fireflies was awarded the prestigious Naoki Prize together with Algae in America , both of which appeared in 1967 in the literary magazine All Yomimono . In 1988, it was implemented as an anime film under the German title The Last Glow Worms .

Akiyuki Nosaka was elected independent to the Japanese Parliament ( Kokkai ) in the 1974 Sangiin election .

Works (selection)

• エ ロ 事 師 た ち , Erogotoshi-tachi , 1963
  • German: Japanese delights . From the English by N. Wölfl. Droemer 1974. ISBN 3-426-08994-7
• ア メ リ カ ひ じ き , America Hijiki ( algae in America ) and 火 垂 る の 墓 Hotaru no Haka (both 1967)
  • dt. in: The grave of the firefly . Translated from the Japanese by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit . Rowohlt 1994. ISBN 3-499-13109-9 .

literature

• Siegfried Schaarschmidt and Michiko Mae (eds.): Japanese contemporary literature. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-446-15929-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grave of the Fireflies novelist Akiyuki Nosaka Passes Away

Web links

• Literature by and about Akiyuki Nosaka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Akiyuki Nosaka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage of Akiyuki Nosaka (Japanese)