Uri Orlev

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Uri Orlev

Uri Orlev ( Hebrew אורי אורלב; ) (Born February 24, 1931 in Warsaw ) is a Polish-Israeli author of books for children and young people. He lives in Jerusalem , is married and has four children. Uri Orlev is one of the few surviving Holocaust witnesses and is considered one of the most renowned authors of books for children and young people worldwide.

Life

Uri Orlev was born Jerzy Henryk Orłowski in Warsaw in 1931 to Jewish parents and spent part of his childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto in the early 1940s . His father was a doctor and was taken into Soviet captivity as an officer in the Polish army, while his mother, a chemist, was shot by Germans. In 1943 Orlev was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with his brother and aunt . After the liberation by the US Army in 1945, Orlev and his brother were orphans through a children's aid organization, first to Paris and then in the early autumn of 1945 to the British mandate of Palestine , later Israel . He lived in a kibbutz for twenty years. Orlev first wrote for children and young people in 1976 and has published 31 books to date, which have been translated into 25 languages. His stories mostly take place in the time of National Socialism and are about how young people deal with its horror. His most famous works are Die Bleisoldaten and Lauf, Junge ,lauf . Many have autobiographical or biographical elements. He also translates books from Polish into Hebrew, among others. a. by Janusz Korczak and Stanisław Lem . His book The Island in Vogelstrasse was made into a film in 1997, as was his book The Hairy Tuesday , which Søren Kragh-Jacobsen filmed. Orlev received the Hans Christian Andersen Prize in 1996 for his complete works. In 1985, 1992 and 1996 he was awarded the Mildred L. Batchelder Award . Orlev's book Run, Boy, Run is currently being filmed by director Pepe Danquart (2012) and will likely be released in theaters at the end of 2013. Uri Orlev spends time reading trips in Germany. In 2001 he was a guest at the 1st Berlin International Literature Festival . In July 2012 Orlev was a guest at the White Ravens Festival in Munich and in September 2012 at the 12th international literature festival in Berlin . As part of this, he was also a member of the jury for The Extraordinary Book of the Children and Youth Program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .

Run boy Run

In Run, Boy, Run , Uri Orlev tells the story of the young Jew Jurek, who escaped from the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War and had to survive until the end of the war. Orlev's book received very good reviews worldwide. The director Pepe Danquart filmed the book as a German-Polish-French co-production under the title Lauf Junge Run .

A kingdom for Eljusha

A Kingdom for Eljuscha (2011) is Orlev's last novel, which was translated into German. In it Orlev tells about the five-year-old Jewish boy Eljuscha Posniak, for whom a village in the steppe of Kazakhstan became a place of refuge and childhood paradise in 1941. Together with his mother and siblings he begins a completely new life before he can travel to the promised land of Israel at the age of eleven. For Jeanne Rubner of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Orlev cleverly combines “World history, war and a Jewish fate” in a youth novel that, as it were - without any historical figures or pathos - from the prehistory of the Middle East conflict and the points of friction between the world religions Judaism and Christianity and told Islam. "

Works

Translation from Hebrew since 1990: Mirjam Pressler .

  • 2011: A Kingdom for Eljuscha , Beltz & Gelberg, Original: Homeward from steppes of the sun (2010).
  • 2004: Run, boy, run , Original: Ruz jeled ruz (2002)
  • 2002: The lucky pacifier (illustration: Jacky Gleich ), Beltz & Gelberg
  • 1999: Die Bleisoldaten , Beltz & Gelberg, Original: Hayyale oferet (1988)
  • 1999: The Lion Gift (Illustration: Jacky Gleich), Beltz & Gelberg
  • 1998: Hairy Tuesday (Illustration: Jacky Gleich), Beltz & Gelberg
  • 1997: Julek and the lady in the hat , Beltz and Gelberg
  • 1997: The Little Big Girl (Illustration: Jacky Gleich), Beltz & Gelberg, Original: Qetanna-gedola
  • 1994: Lydia, Queen of Palestine , Elefanten Press, Original: Lydia malkat erez Israel
  • 1994: The Sand Game , Elefanten Press
  • 1993: The Animal in the Night (Illustration: Amelie Glienke ), Elefanten Press, Original: Chajat ha-choschech
  • 1992: The Dragon's Crown , Elefanten Press, Original: Keter had-drakon
  • 1990: The Man from the Other Side , Beltz & Gelberg, Original: Ha ish min ha-tzad ha-acher (1988)
  • 1986: The island in Vogelstrasse , Ravensburger Verlag, translation from Hebrew: Beate Esther von Schwarze
  • 1981: The knitting mother (illustration: Ora Eytan), translation from Hebrew: Jakob Hessing, Atlantis Verlag

Awards (selection)

Secondary literature

  • Volker Ladenthin: About the presence of the past. Uri Orlev - a paradigmatic author. Analysis of his work published in German. In: Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans-Heino Ewers (Hrsg.): War and post-war childhood. Studies on literary culture of remembrance for young readers. Pp. 417-437.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film project in the Badische Zeitung
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung : Danquart's new film project at the PH: A Difficult Birth , Freiburg, Frank Zimmermann, May 5, 2012
  3. ↑ Jeanne Rubner in the Süddeutsche Zeitung  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sz-shop.sueddeutsche.de  
personal data
SURNAME Orlev, Uri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES אורי אורלב (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Israeli author of books for children and young people
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw , Poland