Benno Pludra

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Youth lesson with Benno Pludra (1984)

Benno Pludra (born October 1, 1925 in Mückenberg ; † August 27, 2014 in Potsdam ) was a German writer .

Pludra wrote short stories and novels for children and young people. With a total circulation of more than five million copies, he is considered to be the most successful author of young people's books in GDR literature ; some of his books also appeared in West German licensed editions . Several of his books have been made into films .

Life

Pludra was the son of a metal caster . His hometown Mückenberg, today Lauchhammer-West district of the city of Lauchhammer , was in the far east of the Prussian province of Saxony (from 1945 Saxony-Anhalt ) on the border with Niederlausitz ( province of Brandenburg ). He attended school through high school . In 1942 he went to the merchant navy , where he completed a sailor's training as a cabin boy on the sailing training ship Padua . After his sailor examination, Pludra was hired on the ore freighter Ditmar Koel in 1944 . During a trip in a large convoy to Norway, the ship was hit by a torpedo and sank. Pludra got away with life, but shortly afterwards his hair turned snow white.

In 1945 he returned to his parents, who meanwhile lived in Riesa ( Saxony ). In the same year he joined the KPD and was trained as a new teacher in Riesa in 1946 . After a brief activity in this profession, he attended the workers and farmers faculty in 1947/48 and then studied German , history and art history at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1948 to 1950 . At the same time he made his first literary attempts; he wrote short stories and newspaper reports .

Pludra broke off his studies and worked from 1950 to 1952 as an editor for the newspaper Der Rundfunk in East Berlin . After winning a competition organized by the GDR Ministry for Popular Education in 1951 to promote socialist children's literature , Pludra started working as a freelance writer in 1952.

Pludra was a member of the GDR Writers' Association and, since 1970, of the GDR PEN Center ; later he was a member of the PEN Center Germany . He received the Erich Weinert Medal in 1964 , the GDR National Prize in 1966 and 1981 , the German Youth Literature Prize in 1991 for his book Siebenstorch , the Alex Wedding Prize and the Friedrich Bödecker Prize in 2000 and the special prize of the German Youth Literature Prize in 2004 for his oeuvre.

The reading center of the Heidelberg University of Education dedicated a large part of the booklet 17 of Bookmarks (2006) to Pludra . It contains an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature, including newspaper articles and speeches.

Benno Pludra lived with his family in Potsdam- Nedlitz from 1970 until his death in 2014 . He left two sons and three grandchildren. Pludra was buried in the New Cemetery in Potsdam.

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Own works

  • One girl, five boys and six tractors. Berlin 1951.
  • The boys from tent thirteen . Berlin 1952.
  • Gustel, Tapp and the others. Drawings Ernst Jazdzewski (= Colorful Bear Books. , Volume 2). Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1953, secondary edition : German National Library, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2014, DNB 105011633X full text online digitized version of the 3rd edition 1955, free of charge, 158 pages in viewer.
  • In Wiepershagen the cocks crow. Berlin 1953.
  • Before the big journey. Berlin 1955.
  • When the pegs pull ... Berlin 1955.
  • Haik and Paul. Berlin 1956.
  • Sheriff Teddy. Berlin 1956.
  • Jacob is looking for love. Berlin 1958.
  • Boatswain on the floe . Berlin 1959, ISBN 978-3-407-77106-3 .
  • Popp has to choose. Berlin 1959.
  • with Ingeborg Meyer-Rey : Heiner and his chicken. Berlin 1962.
  • with Kurt Klamann : Our ship comes from Kukkeia. Berlin 1962.
  • Lütt Matten and the white shell . Berlin 1963, ISBN 3-407-77115-0 .
  • The trip to Sundevit. Berlin 1965, ISBN 3-407-77111-8 .
  • with Ingeborg Meyer-Rey: About the bear who could no longer sleep. Berlin 1967.
  • Tambari . Berlin 1969.
  • How I wanted to travel to Svaneti. Berlin 1974.
  • The boys from tent 13 and other stories. Berlin 1975.
  • Sundus and the oat-yellow dog. Berlin 1975.
  • Mourning cloak and birch. Berlin 1978.
  • with Renate Totzke-Israel : Once upon a time there was a pair of shoes. Berlin 1979.
  • with Renate Totzke-Israel: Inside the magic mouse sleeps. Berlin 1980.
  • with Linde Detlefsen: It was an egg. Berlin 1980.
  • Island of the Swans . Illustrations by Gerhard Lahr. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-358-03055-5 . (1998 edition, revised by the author, ISBN 3-358-02166-1 .)
  • with Erdmut Oelschlaeger: Sometimes we are really big. Berlin 1980.
  • with Martin Schoppe: A girl found a stone. The swans on the water. Once upon a time there was a pair of shoes. Berlin 1981.
  • with Siegfried Linke: How the windmill flew to the clouds. Berlin 1981.
  • with Manfred Bofinger : It was a bee. Berlin 1983.
  • with Gisela Neumann: Inverted world. Berlin 1984.
  • The pirate's heart. Berlin 1985.
  • with Uwe Häntsch : Our ship comes from Kukkeia. Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-358-00065-6 .
  • with Renate Totzke-Israel Windmühle, Windmühle, take us with you. Berlin 1987.
  • with Jutta Mirtschin: The Tawny Owl Hadubrand. Berlin 1988.
  • with Regine Röder: Miss Weißmann was sitting in the garden. Berlin 1989.
  • Down to the river where the ships pull. Berlin 1989.
  • Aloa-hé. Hamburg 1991.
  • Seven stork. Berlin 1991.
  • Writing for Children: There should be hope at the very back. Speech at Frankfurt University on July 9, 1993; With catalog raisonné and literature on children's literary work by Benno Pludra (= annual edition of the Friends of the Institute for Youth Book Research, Frankfurt am Main , 1993). Friends of the Institute for Youth Book Research, Frankfurt am Main 1993, DNB 944785255 .
  • Five in the bin. Berlin 1994.
  • Cast off for the miracle flea. Berlin 1994.
  • The fairytales. Berlin 1994.
  • The captain's dog. (= Benno Pludra Library ). KinderbuchverlagBerlin 1999, ISBN 3-358-02178-5 .
  • Jacob homeless. (= Benno Pludra Library ). Children's book publisher, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-358-02182-3 .

Translations

Film adaptations

literature

Web links

Commons : Benno Pludra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Börsenblatt : Benno Pludra is dead , press release, online at boersenblatt.net on August 27, 2014.
  2. a b Jana Haase: Still a cabin boy at heart . In: Potsdam's latest news . 16th September 2014.
  3. "Tambari" - A rare friendship . In: prominentimostblog.com from April 27, 2017.
  4. Benno Pludra - Bibliography (PDF; 76 kB) at ph-heidelberg.de, accessed on June 26, 2011.
  5. Notes: Exercise of rights by VG WORT (§ 13d UrhWahrnG) Long-term archiving guaranteed