Ilja Arnoldowitsch Ilf

Ilja Ilf in 1932

Ilya Ilf Arnoldovich ( Russian Илья Арнольдович Ильф , actually Iechiel body Fainsilberg ( Russian Иехиел Лейб Файнзильберг ); born October 3 ^{. Jul} / 15. October  1897 ^{. Greg} in Odessa ; † 13. April 1937 in Moscow ) was a Russian - Soviet writer . His stage name Ilf is derived from his real name I echiel L eib F ainsilberg.

Life

Ilja Ilf was born into a Jewish family in Odessa in 1897 . He worked with Yevgeny Petrov (1903-1942) from 1927 for satirical newspapers. Both became famous through their novels " Twelve Chairs " and " The Golden Calf ", which they wrote together as Ilf and Petrow , in which the cunning deceiver Ostap Bender is the main character. As Petrow later described in his "Memories of Ilf", Ilya Ilf told him about his tuberculosis , from which he died in Moscow in 1937, while they were visiting the cemetery together on their trip to the USA .

Works by the duo Ilf and Petrow

• Двенадцать стульев . Novel. 1928 (German: twelve chairs ; numerous film adaptations, including thirteen chairs ).
• Светлая личность . Narrative. 1928 (German: Lichtgestalt ).
• 1001 день, или Новая Шахерезада . Cycle of satirical short stories. 1929 (German: A thousand and one days or the new Scheherazade ).
• Необыкновенные истории из жизни города Колоколамска . Cycle of satirical short stories. 1929 (German: Extraordinary stories from the life of the city of Radbrech ).
• Золотой телёнок . Novel. 1931 (German: The golden calf or The Hunt for the Million ).
• Одноэтажная Америка . Travel journal. 1936 (German: Single Storey America ).
• Тоня . Novella. 1937 (German: Jagdrevier ).

German editions (selection)

• Relationships are everything . Stories and feature sections. Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1981.
• The golden calf or The Hunt for the Million . Fischer-Taschenbuch , 1988, ISBN 3-596-28263-2 .
  • New edition: translated by Thomas Reschke : Die Other Bibliothek , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8477-0340-2 .
• Twelve chairs . Luchterhand , 2003, ISBN 3-630-62067-1 .
• Ilja Ilf and Jewgeni Petrow : The single-storey America: A journey with photos of Ilja Ilf in black and white and letters from America , translated from Russian by Helmut Ettinger. With a preliminary remark by Alexandra Ilf and a foreword by Felicitas Hoppe , 2 volumes in one cassette, Eichborn Verlag, Die Andere Bibliothek series , Frankfurt am Main 2011 ISBN 978-3-8218-6239-2

literature

• Ilja Ehrenburg : People - Years - Lives (Memoirs), Munich 1962; Special edition, Kindler, Munich 1972, Volume II, 1923–1941, Portrait Ilf / Petrow, pages 309–314, ISBN 3-463-00512-3 .

Web links

Commons : Ilya Ilf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ilja Arnoldowitsch Ilf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ilya Ilf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Annotation: "Twelve chairs"
• "Two Soviet Citizens in America"