Ludvík Aškenazy

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Ludvík Aškenazy (born February 24, 1921 in Teschen , † March 18, 1986 in Bozen ) was a Czech writer , playwright and screenwriter .

Life

Ludvik Aškenazy joined the Czechoslovak Foreign Army, which was founded in the USSR , as a refugee during World War II in 1941 and was a soldier until the end of the war. After the war he worked for the Czechoslovak Radio .

From the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s in what was then the ČSR and later the ČSSR , he was a widely read and popular writer. He mainly wrote short stories and children's books , whereby the boundary between literature for children and that for adults is sometimes "permeable".

His first great success was in 1955 with the book of stories "Kinderetüden". The stories about a little boy, for whom his son Jindřich had served as a model, found a wide audience and established his popularity . The short novella “The Lovers from the Box” was equally successful .

The volumes of short stories “Das Hundeleben” and “Das Ei” had the same poetic, somewhat melancholy style , but not the cheerfulness of the two books mentioned above. These stories take place during the war in the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia”, in the concentration camp .

Ludvik Aškenazy also wrote a number of fairy tale books , including the fairy tale novel "The Search for the Plum Scent", "The Travel Book with the Dachshund", "LÜTTEPITT or Incredible Adventures of a Real Dwarf" (1961) or the novella "The Stolen Moon". “The Black Box” is a collection of poems that was illustrated with photographs that inspired the individual poems. The books were created in the 1960s, enjoyed great readership and have been translated into many languages.

Ludvik Aškenazy also wrote plays such as “KuK Staatsbräutigam”, “Andelka”, “The true story of Antonia Parizek, a light girl with a good heart”, many radio plays, including “The conversation was on your account”, the one with the Prix di Italia won an award in 1963 and many screenplays, including “ The Scream ”, which won the 1966 Cannes Screenplay Award. After the Warsaw Pact troops marched into the ČSSR in 1968 , he emigrated to Germany and lived in Munich until 1976 . As a result of the emigration, Ludvik Askenazy's entire work was banned in what was then the ČSSR. In Germany he wrote German children's books, such as “Where the foxes play the recorder”, which won the German Children's Book Prize in 1977, and “Where the golden turtle dances” and “The fairy tale of the four winds”. The short stories under the title “You are unique” also became quite popular.

He also regularly wrote fairy tales for Bayerischer Rundfunk , as well as a series of radio plays for the ARD radio stations, which he often staged himself. After his scripts, a number of television plays were made for BR and ZDF .

After the fall of the Wall in 1989, his books were published again in the Czech Republic and his plays were performed, including those that were created during the emigration and that were translated from German into Czech.

Ludvík Aškenazy died in Bozen in 1986, where he had settled with his wife Leonie Mann-Aškenazy , Heinrich Mann's daughter , in 1976.

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SURNAME Aškenazy, Ludvík
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer, playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Teschen
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1986
Place of death Bolzano