Ilf and Petrow
Ilf and Petrov were Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Fainsilberg, Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг, 1897-1937) and Yevgeny Petrov ( Yevgeni Petrovich Kataev , Евгений Петрович Катаев, 1903-1942), two Soviet prose writers of the 1920s and 1930s. They wrote most of their work together, and almost always under the name "Ilf and Petrow". Her two satirical novels Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf made her extremely popular. The two texts are linked by the fate of their main character, the impostor Ostap Bender on the hunt for wealth.
Both books describe the path of Bender and his colleagues in search of treasure in the midst of contemporary Soviet reality. They emerged in the relatively liberal era of the New Economic Policy of the 1920s. The protagonists generally avoid contact with the obviously negligent law enforcement agencies. Your position lies outside the organized, plan-oriented Soviet society. The work served the authors as a platform for an outlook on the dark side of socialist society. The books are among the most widely read and cited works in Soviet culture.
Twelve Chairs was filmed in both the USSR and the USA (by Mel Brooks ); see The twelve chairs .
Both writers toured the United States during the Great Depression . Using Ilf's pictures taken on the trip, the authors wrote a photo essay entitled American Photographs , which was published in the magazine Ogonjok . Shortly thereafter, they published the book One-Story America (Одноэтажная Америка). The photo essay and the book document their adventures with their own playful humor. Ilf and Petrow did not shy away from portraying certain aspects of the American way of life positively in these works.
Ilf died of tuberculosis shortly after the trip to America ; Petrov died in a plane crash during the German-Soviet War in 1942 .
A minor planet discovered in 1982 by the Soviet astronomer Ludmilla Georgievna Karachkina was named after them: 3668 IlfPetrov .
The twelve chairs were u. a. Filmed in Austria under the title My Grandpa and the 13 chairs with Otto Schenk in the lead role.
A repetition of the trip to America after 80 years by Felicitas Hoppe led to her book Pravda: An American Journey.
Works
- Twelve Chairs (1928, Двенадцать стульев)
- Incredible stories from the city of Kolokolamsk (1928, Необыкновенные истории из жизни города Колоколамска)
- Kolokolamsk and other incredible stories . German translation by Helmut Ettinger. The Other Library, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8477-0371-6 .
- The golden calf (1931, Золотой теленок)
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One-story America (1937, Одноэтажная Америка)
- Single-Story America: A Travel Tale . German translation by Helmut Ettinger. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3821862392 .
literature
- Ilja Ehrenburg : People - Years - Lives (Memoirs), Munich 1962, special edition Munich 1965, Volume II 1923–1941, Portrait Ilf / Petrow pages 309–314, ISBN 3-463-00512-3 .
