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Leon Nebenzahl (born August 26, 1910 in Voronezh ; † January 6, 1996 in Berlin ) was a Russian-German translator and journalist. After early work as a copywriter and graphic designer, which was ended during the National Socialist era due to a professional ban, Nebenzahl initially worked as a translator and interpreter for the Soviet military administration and the Soviet news office after the end of World War II . In the GDR he published the magazine Die Presse der Soviet Union und der Volksdemokratien until 1958 and was editor-in-chief of the magazine Problems of Peace and Socialism until 1981 . He also translated Marxist-Leninist literature, Soviet memoirs and fiction from Russian .

life and work

Nebenzahl's father was originally from the Kraków area and exported eggs from Russia , which two of his brothers sold in Germany. Nebenzahl's mother was Russian. His parents did not get married until later, as his father first had to convert from Judaism .

After the First World War , the family moved to Germany and lived in Berlin from 1921. Here Nebenzahl attended a German-Russian secondary school . The family went bankrupt in the early 1930s. Nebenzahl had to stop studying chemistry in Berlin for lack of money. Instead, as a commercial artist and lyricist, he worked in the advertising department of the production company Nero-Film of his uncle Heinrich Nebenzahl belonging film distribution celebrity movie and designs include the movie poster for the film camaraderie of Georg Wilhelm Pabst .

During National Socialism , Nebenzahl was banned from working in 1933. While he was making a living doing arts and crafts , he delayed his "Aryanization process" by linking his illegitimate birth with doubts about fatherhood. He was considered an illegitimate foreigner. In 1944 he was pressured by the immigration police to have himself declared a “full Aryan” and thus also to be conscripted. He decided to uncover his origins and, as a " half- breed" in the sense of the Nuremberg Laws , was forced to do compulsory service in the Todt Organization in Thuringia in November 1944 . In April 1945 he fled to Berlin.

From May 1945 Nebenzahl worked as an interpreter for the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) in Berlin and from summer 1945 as an employee of the Soviet News Office (SNB). He translated SMAD announcements for the SNB and interpreted at press conferences. From 1946 he also worked as a publishing translator for SMA-Verlag, for whom he translated, among other things, the indictment of the Soviet main prosecutor in the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals .

After the dissolution of the SNB, Nebenzahl was transferred to the Office for Information (AfI) of the GDR in 1950 , where he published the press service The Press of the Soviet Union and the People's Democracies until 1958 . In 1957 he attended the party college "Karl Marx" for a year . He then took over the editor-in-chief of the German edition of the international magazine Problems of Peace and Socialism until 1981 .

Nebenzahl translated textbooks on Marxism-Leninism , economics and history, memoirs of Soviet diplomats, military and politicians such as Valentin Bereshkow , Iwan Maiski , Kliment Voroshilov , but also fiction, including works by Vasily Grossman .

Nebenzahl was a member of the KPD , SED and the PDS .

Publications

Own writings

• About Soviet socialist society. Collection of essays. 1st edition. Dietz, Berlin 1952.
• (Ed.): For the further development of Michurin's doctrine; for the 100th birthday of IW Michurin. Congress Publishing, Berlin 1955.
• "More reason to love than to hate ...". In: Weimarer Contributions , 18 H. 4.18, No. 4 1972, pp. 161-167.
• My life started all over again. Memories of an unusual time. Dietz, Berlin 1985.
• The tsar's eagle gives way to the Soviet star. A study of postal history. 1st edition. Transpress, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3344002171 .
• It doesn't always have to be a value stamp. Russia's postcard forms from 1872 to 1926 . Hofmann, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3763650644 .

Translations

• Vasilij Semenovič Grosman: Stepan Kolchugin. Novel. So V. pisatelʹ, Moskva 1947.
  • Stepan Kolchugin. Novel in four parts. Dietz Verl., Berlin 1953.
• Roman Nikolaevič Kim: The American Parnassus. A pamphlet. SWA-Verl., Berlin 1948.
• LA Mendelʹson: Contradictions in the post-war capitalist economy. SWA-Verl., Berlin 1948.
• A. Petrušov: Agricultural conditions in Germany and the agricultural reform. SWA-Verl., Berlin 1948.
• Aleksandr Michajlovič Egolin: The Soviet literature . SWA-Verl., Berlin 1949.
• A. Odud: Soviet Moldova. SWA-Verl., Berlin 1949.
• Traitscho Kostoff and his troop. (Trial protocol, Predatelskata špionska i sabot'orska grupa na Trajčo Kostov pred suda na narod, Sofia 1949.) 2nd edition. Dietz, Berlin 1951.
• Aleksandr Fedorovič Šiskin: The bourgeois morality - weapon of the imperialist reaction. 1st edition. Dietz, Berlin 1952.
• DI Valentej: Unemployment - the inevitable companion of capitalism. 1st edition. Dietz, Berlin 1953.
• AJ Kunina: The real face of American imperialism. 1st edition. Dietz, Berlin 1954.
• Tse-tung Mao: Selected Writings. In four volumes. 2nd Edition. Dietz, Berlin 1956.
• Alexej Badaev: The Bolsheviks in the State Duma . Memories. 1st edition. Dietz, Berlin 1957.
• Vasilij Semenovič Grosman: turning point on the Volga. 2nd Edition. Dietz, Berlin 1958.
• Il'ja Lvovič Kremlev: Soldiers of the Revolution. 2nd Edition. Dietz, Berlin 1958.
• Larisa Michajlovna Rejsner: October. 1st edition. Dietz, Berlin 1961.
• Elizaveta J. Drabkina: Black rusks. Dietz, Berlin 1962.
• Vasilij Semenovič Grosman: Stormy youth. 2nd Edition. Dietz, Berlin 1962.
• Aleksandr Ostapovič Avdeenko: Operation "Black Bells". Verl. Culture u. Progress, Berlin 1964.
• Jakov Jakovlevič Ėtinger, Ovanes Nagapetovič Melikjan: Neutralism and Peace. Dietz, Berlin 1964.
• WW Rymalov: The USSR and the economically poorly developed countries. 1st edition. Dietz, Berlin 1964.
• Ivan M. Majskij: Memoirs of a Soviet Ambassador. 1st edition. Dietz, Berlin 1967.
• Maksim Gorʹkij, Leon Nebenzahl and Ralf Schröder: workshop discussions . Verl. Volk u. Welt, Berlin 1968.
• Klimentij Efremovič Vorošilov: At the cradle of the revolution. Dietz, Berlin 1970.
• History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1st edition. Dietz, Berlin 1971.
• Nikolaj Gnidjuk: In the hinterland. 1st edition. German Military publ., Berlin 1971.
• Illustrated History of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Dietz, Berlin 1972.
• GA Kozlov, Peter Hofmann and Leon Nebenzahl (eds.): Political economy. Dietz, Berlin 1973.
• Valentin Pikulʹ: PQ 17th 1st edition. Military ext. the Dt. Democrat. Republic, Berlin 1973.
• Vladislav Pobedonoscev: Look to Lenin! . Verl. Neues Leben, Berlin 1973.
• Jurij Stepanovič Novopašin: Strategy of "peaceful interference". State extension d. GDR, Berlin 1974.
• Valentin Michajlovič Berežkov: Years in the diplomatic service. Dietz Verl., Berlin 1975.
• Leonid Il'ič Brežnev: rebirth. Memories. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1978.
• Ėmilija Andreevna Grinevič: Dawn over the Caribbean. Cuba's road to revolution. Verl. Neues Leben, Berlin 1978.
• Elena Dmitrievna Stasova: Comrade Absolutely. Memories. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1978.
• Leonid Iosifovič Šinkarev: My Siberia. 1st edition. FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1979.
• Pyotr Abrasimov, L. Nebenzahl and G. Lehmann: West Berlin yesterday and today. 1st edition. State extension the Dt. Democratic Republic, Berlin 1981.
• VV Glazyrin: Effectiveness of legal norms. Theory and Research methods. 1st edition. State extension d. GDR, Berlin 1982.
• Michail Maškin: The Paris Commune 1871. Chronicle of a revolution. Dietz, Berlin 1982.

literature

• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Second number, Leon . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Karin Hartewig: Back. The history of the Jewish communists in the GDR . Böhlau, Cologne 2000.