Konstantin Michailowitsch Slobin

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Konstantin Michailowitsch Slobin ( Russian Константин Михайлович Злобин ; born July 29, 1902 in Birsk , Ufa Governorate , Russian Empire ; † May 18, 1973 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet theater and film actor .

Life and accomplishments

Konstantin Slobin was born in 1902 as the son of an accountant († 1920) and a housewife. In contrast to July 29, March 16 is also given as his date of birth. He had a younger sister named Nina (* 1906), who also opted for an acting career and later appeared at the Mossoviet Theater .

Slobin attended elementary school from 1909 to 1912 and then secondary school until 1918. From 1919 he worked for two years at the city theater of Birsk in various functions, then served as a cabin boy on the steamer Sabijaka until 1923 and then returned to his former place of work as an actor until 1924. Between January and October 1924, Slobin also held a position at the People's Court in his hometown. In the following three years he worked as a librarian for the 57th Artillery Regiment in Perm and then moved to Leningrad, which would remain the center of his life until his death.

From 1927 Slobin was trained at the Leningrad Drama Institute, but already performed at the Radlov Theater during this time . In 1931, a year after graduating, he played his first popular role with Josef Schwejk . Other well-known pieces with his participation were The guiltless guilty after Alexander Ostrowski and an adaptation of Nikolai Ostrowski's How Steel Was Hardened . In 1942, the last year he worked for Radlow, he gave his most important role in Hamlet .

As a result of the Second World War, the members of the Radlov Theater were evacuated to Pyatigorsk , while Slobin got to Tashkent . Here he performed for members of the Red Army until 1943 and then received an engagement at the Leningrad Akimov Comedy Theater , which lasted until the end of his life. The most famous productions with his participation include Kretschinski's Wedding by Alexander Suchowo-Kobylin , Pygmalion and Mrs. Warren's Trade by George Bernhard Shaw , A Trip to Scarborough by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Gogol's The Auditor .

Slobin made his film debut in 1938 in А крепость была неприступная ( A krepost byla nepristupnaja ), a biographical work about Semyon Budjonny . Years later, he was involved in another biography with Михайло Ломоносов ( Mikhail Lomonossow , 1955). Slobin appeared in a total of 18 television and cinema productions, most recently in the year of his death in the two-part series Открытая книга ( Otkrytaja kniga ). He was mainly perceived as a performer in humorous and children's films, for example in the fairy tale films The Adventures of Puss in Boots (1958) and An ancient fairy tale (1968) or in Тим Талер, или Проданный смех ( Tim Taler, ili Prodanny smech , 1970) after the Roman Timm Thaler or The Laughing Sold by James Krüss . In Перед бурей ( Pered burej an adaptation of 1968), Maxim Gorky's The Last , he had a Cameoauftritt .

Slobin was married to Klementina Valerianovna Trontschinskaja (* 1907). He died in Leningrad and was buried in the northern cemetery there.

Honors

Konstantin Slobin received the following awards:

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Slobins on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on April 30, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Biography of Slobins on kinosozvezdie.ru (Russian), accessed April 30, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c Biography of Slobins on a-tremasov.ru (Russian), accessed April 30, 2020
  4. ↑ Film data for А крепость была неприступная on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on April 30, 2020
  5. ↑ Film data for Михайло Ломоносов on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on April 30, 2020
  6. ↑ Film data for Перед бурей on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on April 30, 2020
  7. ↑ filmography Slobins on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on April 30, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Slobin, Konstantin Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Злобин, Константин Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Birsk , Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1973
Place of death Leningrad , Soviet Union