Lazar stonemason
Lazar Majrovič Steinmetz, officially last Lazar Shtaynmets (* 6. May 1920 in Czernowitz , Kingdom of Romania ; † 19th September 2013 in Boston ), was from the Bukovina derived and in Moscow active translator and German writers . His translations into the German language mostly appeared under the name L. Steinmetz (in Russian Л. Штайнмец ).
Life
Steinmetz was born in 1920 in Czernowitz, then Romanian. He fled to the east of the Soviet Union in 1941 . In Moscow he then worked - mainly for the Progress publishing house - as a translator of contemporary Russian-language texts. He became known in particular for his translations of the children's books Alexander Melentjewitsch Volkov , which was particularly popular in the GDR, i.e. the magician of the emerald city and his five serial volumes , which were published in numerous editions. In doing so, Steinmetz succeeded in preserving the "Wolkow's narrative tone, which sounds somewhat old-fashioned today". The books were distributed in the GDR and in the other German-speaking countries. In editions published by the Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag after 1990, Steinmetzen's first name is incorrectly given as Leonid . From 2005 onwards, the volumes appeared in textually altered and shortened versions.
In 2000, a children's book by Steinmetz was published by the Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, which is based on Wolkow's stories.
Steinmetz had lived in Boston since 1985 . He was buried in the Jewish cemetery "Independent Pride of Boston".
Private
Steinmetz was married to Tamara Shtaynmets. The Russian-American writer Irina Muravyova (* 1952) is his daughter.
Works (selection)
As an author
- The adventurous story of the evil magician Astrozor and the brave lion, the lion roar. Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 978-3-89603-060-3 .
As a translator from Russian
- Alexander Volkov: The Wizard of the Emerald City . Publishing house for foreign language literature, Moscow 1964 (at the same time Brücken-Verlag Düsseldorf, 1964; 6th edition also publishing house of books, Bayreuth 1982).
- Alexander Volkov: The clever Urfin and his wooden soldiers . Progress-Verlag, Moscow 1967 (5th edition also Bücher-GmbH, Bayreuth 1982).
- Alexander Volkov: The Seven Underground Kings . Progress-Verlag, Moscow 1970 (4th edition also Bücher-GmbH, Bayreuth 1982, and Globus-Verlag, Vienna 1982).
- Alexander Volkov: The fire god of the Marranos . Progress-Verlag, Moscow 1974 (also Gondrom-Verlag, Bayreuth 1978).
- Alexander Volkov: The Yellow Fog . Progress-Verlag, Moscow 1979 (also Verlag der Bücher, Bayreuth 1979).
- Alexander Volkov: The Secret of the Abandoned Castle . In: Soviet literature, issues 8/1983, 3/1984, 7/1984 and 9/1984.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lazar Steinmetz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b encyclopedia.com (accessed January 2, 2019).
- ↑ tributes.com (accessed January 2, 2019).
- ↑ Siggi Seuss: Beyond Kansas. The wonderland of Alexander Volkov. Deutschlandfunk, June 25, 2011 (accessed January 2, 2019).
- ↑ findagrave.com (accessed January 2, 2019).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stonemason, Lazar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steinmetz, Lazar Majrovič (full name); Shtaynmets, Lazar; Steinmetz, L .; Штайнмец, Л. (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Translator and German-speaking writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernivtsi , Kingdom of Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th September 2013 |
| Place of death | Boston |