Giovannino Guareschi

Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi ( born May 1, 1908 in Fontanelle di Rocca Bianca, Italy, † July 22, 1968 in Cervia ) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and writer who also worked as a commercial artist, teacher, and gatekeeper. He was known primarily for his stories about Don Camillo.

Life

Several years lived Giovannino Guareschi in Le Roncole in the Emilia- Romagna region, that region, which also includes the village of Brescello lies and in the later those movies were filmed, whose literary work he had created.

From 1929 he worked as an editor of the " Corriere Emiliano " in Parma, from 1936 to 1943 as editor of the " Bertoldo " ( a humorous weekly ) in Milan. In 1943, he fell into German captivity.

He spent two years in prisoner of war camps in Częstochowa and Benjaminovo in Poland and in Wietzendorf and Sandbostel in Germany. After the war he founded in Milan the satirical weekly magazine " Candido ", which he directed until 1961. In " Candido " the first stories about Don Camillo appeared. Thanks to his publisher Rizzoli, who published a collection of these stories in 1948, the popular already in Italy figures for world success were.

When the first plans for a film adaptation of his figures were brought to him, he reserved the placet in the cast of characters of his main characters. Fernandel was quick for him the ideal person of Don Camillo, but some of the proposals for the comrades Peppone not liked him at first. Therefore, he thought it shortly to take over the role himself, but was later that Gino Cervi would have been hard to beat.

Guareschi was in 1949 came as a screenwriter in appearance; in 1963 he was again working alongside the Don Camillo films in this area. In 1963 he directed the second part of La Rabbia, a documentary.

The of " Candido " set by the publisher impaired Guareschi poor health, more and more, making his age works were given a greater tendency to melancholy.

Giovanni Guareschi died on July 22, 1968 of a heart attack. He was buried in the cemetery of Roncole.

Works

• Don Camillo (1948 )
• Revelations of a father (1952 )
• Don Camillo and his flock (1953 )
• Carlotta and love, or the school of her husband (1953 )
• Stay in your D- train (1954 )
• Comrade Don Camillo (1963 ), ital: Mondo piccolo - il compagno Don Camillo
• My domestic Circus ( 1968)
• Don Camillo and the redhead ( posthumously ed., 1969)
• Candido and his friends ( karikaturistisches picture book )