Gianni Rodari

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Gianni Rodari (born October 23, 1920 in Omegna (Novara), † April 14, 1980 in Rome ) was an Italian writer who mainly wrote children's books .

Life

Raised in Gavirate ( Varese ), he entered the seminary of St. Peter of Seveso in Milan in 1931 , which he left in 1934. From 1939 he studied at the University of Milan . In May 1944 he joined the PCI .

From 1945 he worked as a journalist for L'Ordine Nuovo , the party organ of the PCI Varese. From 1947 he worked for L'Unità . In 1950 he founded the children's magazine Pioniere , for which he wrote until it was discontinued in 1962. On April 25, 1953 he married Maria Teresa Ferretti, on December 13 of the same year he founded the magazine Avanguardia . Between 1954 and 1969 Rodari worked for various periodicals and newspapers, wrote articles and columns for children; he traveled several times to the Soviet Union .

Rodari received the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for youth literature in 1970 . He justified his work in the field of youth literature with his socialist ideals: Peace and freedom for all people. He hoped to educate young people to “reflect” through his works and wanted to help them to evaluate the world appropriately. For Rodari, the most desirable goal was "to see the children of this world smile". Rodari was committed to early childhood education and was the source of ideas for Reggio education. Here he promoted the children's ability to tell stories through the “fantastic binomial”, as he described it in 1973 in his book “Grammar of Fantasy”.

On April 10, 1980, Rodari, just returned from a trip to the Soviet Union, was admitted to a Roman hospital because of a vein occlusion. He died of a heart attack four days later.

The asteroid (2703) Rodari , discovered in 1979, was named after him in 1985.

Works

Cipollino on a Russian postage stamp (1992)
  • Onions ( Il romanzo di Cipollino , 1951, Ger. 1954); NA: LeiV, leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-89603-094-9 .
  • The siren bride
  • Gelsomino in the Land of Liars (1958)
  • The Fabulous Telephone (1960)
  • Flip on TV (1962, German 1968 with pictures by Romulus Candea)
  • The Blue Arrow (1964)
  • The giant flying thing ( La torta in cielo , 1966)
  • Bedtime Stories on the Phone (1972)
  • Grammar of Imagination (The Art of Making Stories) (1973)
  • Twice Lamberto or the Secret of the Island of San Giulio (1978)
  • Help, Benjamin is singing
  • The king's nose
  • The magic drummer
  • Head flowers
  • A skyscraper at sea
  • Elevator to the Stars
  • Mr. Cat's business
  • The story of the young cancer
  • Inventing stamps
  • Alice in the Ink ( Le favolette di Alice , 1995, German 2007)

Rodari developed the "fantastic binomial" based on Henry Wallon's book The Origin of Thought. This leads to a clash of two words which, however, not like horse and dog, but rather like dog and cupboard from two different areas of life, contribute to the development of imagination and creativity.

Radio plays

  • 1972: The huge flying thing (radio of the GDR)

Film adaptations

  • 1996: Lorenz in the land of liars
  • 1996: The blue arrow ( La freccia azzurra )

literature

  • Jack Zipes : The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari, translated with an introduction and notes . New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tassilo Knauf: Reggio pedagogy, child and education-oriented. In: MR Textor (Ed.): Das Kita.Handbuch
  2. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 9768.
  3. ^ Rodari, Gianni: Grammar of Fantasy The Art of Inventing Stories, Philipp Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart, 1973, pp. 22-27
personal data
SURNAME Rodari, Gianni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Omegna (Novara)
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1980
Place of death Rome