Lev Kassil

Lev Abramovich Kassil (Russian Лев Абрамович Кассиль; scientific transliteration Lev Abramovich Kassil; * 27 Junijul / July 10 1905greg in Pokrowskaja Sloboda, .. † June 21, 1970 in Moscow) was a Russian- Soviet writer who mostly children - Youth and wrote books.

Life

Kassil was the son of a woman doctor and a music teacher. He grew up in his birthplace Pokrowskaja Sloboda opposite the city of Saratov on the Volga. There he went to a grammar school. After the October Revolution of 1917, the latter was converted into a working-class school. As a teenager Kassil involved as a draftsman in the design of a hand-made school magazine, which was published by some of the children of this school. In 1923 he graduated from the school and received an award for his volunteer work for the magazine to study at the University of Moscow. There he studied until 1926 ( no degree) at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. However, it is preferably addressed during their studies with the literature and already wrote his own works. His first short story appeared in 1925 in the newspaper Novosti radio.

1927 learned Kassil the revered poet Mayakovsky know. On his own initiative, he moved in the same year the editors of a new youth magazine called Nowy Lef. In 1929 Kassil his first major children's book Konduit that later, after the publication of a subsequent novel, the first part of Schwambranien, one of the most famous works Kassils was.

In the 1930s, Lew Kassil worked as a journalist for the newspaper Izvestia. It was at this time with several other prominent children's authors (among Samuil Marshak, Mikhail Prishvin, Arkady Gaidar ) personally known and published other children 's books, which were also made ​​into a film ( first performed in 1936 with the story Goalkeeper of the Republic). In addition to children's literature Kassil wrote several biographies of his famous contemporaries ( including Mayakovsky, Gaidar, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Otto Schmidt).

During the Second World War Kassil worked as a military journalist. This was later in the plot of several of his books, receipt, including the novella The road of the youngest son, was honored for the Kassil 1951 with the Stalin Prize of the 3rd degree. Kassil was a lecturer at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow and since 1965 a corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the Soviet Union.

Was Kassil with actress Svetlana Sobinowa (1920-2002), a daughter of the famous opera singer Leonid Sobinov (1872-1934), married.

He died in 1970 in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Works (selection)

• Schwambranien or the outrageous adventures of two brave knights who are looking for justice on the continent of the Great tooth discovered the empire Schwambranien (Russian Кондуит и Швамбрания, 1929-35, German 1960)
• His big brother ( Черемыш, брат героя, 1938, German 1949)
• The girl Ustja ( противостояние Великое, 1941-47, dt 1949, Vol 2 as The Girl Sima )
• The road of the youngest son ( Улица младшего сына, 1949; together with Max Poljanowski ( 1901-1977 ), German 1956)
• An early rise ( Ранний восход, 1953, Germany 1956)
• The trail leads to Cortina ( Ход белой королевы, 1956, German 1958)
• What is happiness? ( Про жизнь совсем хорошую, 1959, Germany 1964)
• Mayakovsky - personally ( Маяковский - сам, 1963)