Lazar Iossifowitsch Lagin

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Lazar Iosifovich Lagin ( Russian Лазарь Иосифович Лагин , * November 21 . Jul / 4. December  1903 greg. As a Lasar Josefovich Ginsburg ( Russian Лазарь Иосифович Гинзбург ) in Vitebsk ; † 16th June 1979 in Moscow ) was a Soviet author mainly from Children's books and science fiction literature.

Life

Lagin was born into a Jewish family as the first of five children. Since his father was Joseph Fayvelevich Ginsburg, who came from Newel , his mother was Hana-Dvoira Leizerovna.

He attended school in Minsk , where the family had moved, and graduated in 1919. In 1922 he published his first poems and articles in newspapers. The pseudonym "Lagin" he uses is a polymer formed from his own first and his last name Acronym : La sar Gin sburg.

1925–1926 Lagin served in Simferopol as a soldier in the Red Army . In 1933 he began working as a business journalist for Pravda in Moscow , and from 1934 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Krokodil, which is published by the same publisher . In 1936 he joined the Union of Writers of the USSR .

Published in 1938 in the journal Lagin pioneer the narrative Старик Хоттабыч (Old Man Hottab), which first appeared in 1940 as a book. The idea of ​​an ancient oriental spirit freed from a metal bottle , which - in the best faith to show gratitude to its savior by fulfilling all his wishes - causes confusion in modern times, has strong references to the novel The Brass Bottle by the English author Thomas Anstey , published in 1900 Guthrie (who wrote under the pseudonym F. Anstey). In 1955 the second, revised and considerably expanded edition of the children's book was published. The script written by Lagin for the Soviet film of the same name, shot in 1957, is based on it. To date, the first time in 1949 in German as The Wizard Hottab his most famous work, which has been translated into numerous other languages published children's book.

During the Second World War, Lagin wrote for the newspaper Красный черноморец of the Black Sea Fleet . For his participation in the Battle of Odessa and the Battle of Sevastopol as well as in the defense of Kerch and Novorossiysk , he has received several awards. In 1947 Lagin published the memories from his time in the Black Sea Fleet in the book Mayne Freint di Schwarzjamishe Krieger: Frontnotitsn (My friends, the Black Sea fighters: Frontnotizen), written in Yiddish .

In the post-war period, Lagin wrote a number of science fiction works as well as film scripts.

Awards

Others

Postal stationery for Lagin's 100th birthday, published in 2003 by Belpost

Lagin is buried in the new part of the Kunzewo Cemetery in Moscow.

In Lagin's hometown Vitebsk, a life-size bronze sculpture of his novel hero "Hottab" commemorates the writer.

In 2003 , on Lagin's 100th birthday, the Belarusian Post issued a colored postal stationery with a first day cancellation, on which both the writer at his typewriter and an illustration from his “Hottab” can be seen.

German editions

  • The magician Hottab - a funny story , translated by Alice Wagner, Berlin 1949
  • Patent AV , translated by Ina Tinzmann, Berlin 1947
  • New Year's Snow, translated by Heinz Kübart, Berlin 1970
  • The Elixir of Satan , translated by Ina Tinzmann, Berlin 1954

Web links

Commons : Lazar Lagin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ В метрических данных, доступных на сайте еврейской генеалогии JewishGen.org (в частности о рождении в 1917 году уже в Минске его младшего брата Давида) имя отца записано как Иосель Файбышевич Гинзбург, уроженец Невеля, матери - Хана-Двойра Лейзеровна Гинзбург.
  2. ↑ The Brass Bottle in the Gutenberg project
  3. ↑ https://www.dreamstime.com/monument-to-hero-book-writer-lazar-lagin-ol-old-hottabych-vitebsk-image127453838
  4. ↑ http://www.belpost.by/stamps/information-page/2003/35-2003-11-18/
personal data
SURNAME Lagin, Lazar Iossifovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitebsk
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1979
Place of death Moscow