Giovannino Guareschi

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Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi ( Italian [ɡwaˈreski] ; * May 1, 1908 in Fontanelle di Roccabianca , Emilia-Romagna ; † July 22, 1968 in Cervia , ibid), who was also published and filmed under the name of Giovanni Guareschi , was a Italian journalist , caricaturist and writer . He was best known for his stories about Don Camillo and Peppone .

Life

Giovannino Guareschi lived for several years in Le Roncole in Emilia-Romagna , the region in which the village of Brescello is also located and in which the films whose literary originals he had created were later shot.

After his parents got into financial difficulties in the financial crisis of 1926, Guareschi began to write for local newspapers. In 1929 he became editor of the satirical Corriere Emiliano in Parma . In the mid-1930s, Guareschi did his military service. From 1936 to 1943 he was editor-in-chief of Bertoldo (a humorous weekly newspaper) in Milan . In 1941 his first book publication was an anthology of his articles, in which he had processed his experiences in Milan, his marriage and the birth of his first child ( La coperta di Milano ). His first and only novel, Il destino si chiama Clotilde, followed in 1942 (German: Destiny is called Clotilde ).

In October 1942, while drunk, Guareschi made public derogatory comments about the fascist regime. After the intervention of his publisher, he was drafted into the army as a reserve officer and stationed in an artillery battalion in Alessandria . After the armistice of Cassibile on September 9, 1943, he was an Italian military internee in German prisoner-of-war camps in Czestochowa and Beniaminów in occupied Poland and in Wietzendorf and Sandbostel in Germany until the end of the war . He described his experiences in Diario clandestino 1943-1945 (1946).

Guareschi founded the satirical weekly magazine Candido in Milan in 1945 , which he directed until 1957. The first stories about Don Camillo and Peppone appeared in the Candido . Thanks to his publisher Rizzoli, who brought out a collection of these stories in 1948, the characters that were already popular in Italy became a global success.

In 1951, a cartoon brought Guareschi in second instance a prison sentence of eight months on probation for insulting President Luigi Einaudi . In January 1954 he published two facsimile letters from Alcide De Gasperi , which may have been forgeries. He was convicted of libel again and chose not to appeal. Instead, he served 409 days in prison and was under house arrest for an additional six months.

Were when the first plans for a film adaptation of his characters brought to him to Guareschi kept the Placet before in the cast of characters of its main characters. Fernandel quickly became the ideal cast for Don Camillo, but at first he didn't like some of the suggestions for Comrade Peppone at all. So he thought of taking on the role himself for a short time, but later found that Gino Cervi was hard to beat.

Guareschi had already appeared as a screenwriter in 1949; in 1963 he worked again in this area alongside the Don Camillo films. In 1963 he directed the second part of La Rabbia , a documentary film.

Giovanni Guareschi spent his old age in Cademario and died on July 22, 1968 in Cervia of a heart attack . He was in the cemetery San Michele his residence Le Roncole buried.

Works

  • Don Camillo and Peppone (1948)
  • Revelations of a family man (1952)
  • Don Camillo and his flock (1953)
  • Carlotta and Love, or Spouse's School (1953)
  • Stay in your express train (1954)
  • Comrade Don Camillo (1963), Italian: Mondo piccolo - il compagno Don Camillo
  • My Circus at Home (1968)
  • Don Camillo and the Redhead ( posthumously published 1969)
  • Candido and his friends (caricature picture book)

literature

Web links

Commons : Giovannino Guareschi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lemma "Guareschi" in the dipi - dizionario di pronuncia italiana online , accessed on May 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Giovannino Guareschi
personal data
SURNAME Guareschi, Giovannino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guareschi, Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist, caricaturist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontanelle di Rocca Bianca , Italy
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1968
Place of death Cervia