Vera Inber

Vera Mikhailovna Inber, Russian Вера Михайловна Инбер, born Shpenzer, also called Vera Inber (. * 28 Junijul / July 10 1890greg in Odessa, . † November 11, 1972 in Moscow ) was a Russian writer who in the West, especially for children was through their texts from the war events and their poems and stories attention. Their Jewish origin was reflected in her work down hardly.

Life

Inbers father ran in Odessa a scientific book publisher, and she enjoyed a good education. From 1910 to 1914 she lived in Paris. With her ​​early poetry she was close to the French and Russian Symbolists. She was also active as a journalist and traveled through Europe. In the 1920s she joined the constructivists, without sharing their experimentation. In Nazi Germany their books were banned and burned. In 1943, she joined the CPSU. From 1941 to 1944 she lived in Leningrad, where she was married to a doctor. Thus, they experienced the infamous blockade, which cost the lives of about one million people. The blockade is the subject of Inbers poem Pulkovskij meridian (1943) and its report Pocti tri goda (1946, German Nearly three years). Both works have been awarded the Stalin Prize. Inber died at 82 in Moscow. In Odessa, a street is named after Vera Inber.

Works

• Petschalnoje wino, poems, 1914 ( Sadly wine)
• Gorkaia Uslada, poems, 1917
• Brennyeslova, poems, 1922
• Mesto pod solncem, novel, 1928, The German Place in the Sun, 1929 Berlin, Leipzig 1949, East Berlin 1951
• Pulkovskij meridian, Poem, 1943 ( German The Pulkovo Meridian )
• Pocti tri goda, records, in 1946, German Nearly three years, East Berlin 1946
• Place in the Sun and other novels, Stockholm 1947
• Vdokhnoveniye i masterstvo, Essays on Literature, 1957 ( inspiration and mastery )
• Kak yes byla malen'kaja, YA, 1959, German ( by Monica Huchel ) When I was little, East Berlin 1959