Boris Nikolayevich Polewoi

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Grave of Boris N. Polewoi in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow

Boris Polevoy ( Russian Борис Николаевич Полевой , scientific. Transliteration Boris Nikolaevich Polevoj ; born March 4 jul. / 17th March  1908 greg. In Moscow ; †  12. July 1981 ibid; actually Борис Николаевич Кампов / Boris Nikolayevich Kampow ) was a Soviet writer and journalist .

Life

The son of the lawyer Nikolai Petrovich Kampow and the doctor Lydia Wassiljewna Kampowa grew up in Tver , 170 km northwest of Moscow. Polewoi originally worked as a technician in a textile factory. However, influenced by Maxim Gorky , he became a journalist. In this function he first toured Western Europe, China and the USA until he became a front-line reporter for Pravda in World War II . From 1954 he was a member of the Presidium of the Soviet Writers' Union . In 1962 he became editor-in-chief of the Moscow literary magazine Junost ( Russian Ю́ность ).

His literary work is mainly about the heroism of the Soviet people during the war and their patriotic development efforts after the war. The sometimes pathetic industrial novels also deal with the Stalinist system. In his most famous work, the novel The True Man (Повесть о настоящем человеке / Powest o nastojaschtschem tscheloweke ) he tells the life story of Alexei Petrovich Maressjew . The book was filmed in 1948 under the same title (director: Aleksandr Stolper). On the basis of the book, Sergei Prokofiev composed the opera The Story of the Real Man .

Polewoy's diaries from the Second World War and the Nuremberg Trials are of contemporary historical importance .

Works

  • The cross head , 1940
    • German title: The cross head. Culture and progress, Berlin 1956
  • Tale of the Real Man , 1947
    • German title: The true man. Translated from the Russian by Oswald Tornberg. People and World, Berlin 1975
  • The homecoming , 1949
  • Gold , 1950
    • Gold. Novel. German by Marga Bork. Culture and progress, Berlin 1953
  • Contemporaries , 1952
  • Front line Eisenstrasse. Stories. Culture and progress, Berlin 1954
  • Deep hinterland , 1958
    • Deep hinterland. With an afterword by Stefan Heym. Culture and progress, Berlin 1961
  • Our Lenin , 1961
  • On the wild bank , 1962
    • On the wild bank. Novel. German by Liselotte Remané. Culture and progress, Berlin 1964
  • Doctor Vera , 1966
    • Doctor Vera. Novel. Translated from the Russian by Arno Specht. Culture and Progress, Berlin 1968

Reissued titles after 1970

  • Nürnberger Tagebuch , Berlin: People and World / Culture and Progress 1971
  • Liberation , Frankfurt am Main: Röderberg 1975
  • Berlin 896 km. Notes by a front correspondent , Berlin: Volk und Welt 1975
  • Gold , Berlin: People and World 1977 (6th edition)
  • Anyuta. Translated from the Russian by Helga Gutsche. People and World, Berlin 1978
  • Doctor Vera , Berlin: New Life 1981
  • The reports of my life. Memories. From the Russian by Corinna and Gottfried Wojtek. People and World, Berlin 1981
  • The real man. Translated from the Russian by Oswald Tornberg and Gottfried Wojtek. People and World, Berlin 1975

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personal data
SURNAME Polewoi, Boris Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kampow, Boris Nikolajewitsch (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1981
Place of death Moscow