Semyon sapgir daughter. Heinrich sapgir - biography, photos

Henrikh Veniaminovich was not distinguished by good health. The heart has been naughty for a long time. He suffered a heart attack in the early 90s, doctors, friends warned him more than once: "It's time to think about yourself, to love yourself." But he took it all as a joke. I thought it was not about him, it has nothing to do with him, but:

When I was a soldier, I was always hungry - that's me. The rest, I thought, was not with me - and how I was wounded, and how I died in the hospital, in bandages and blood.

Genrikh Sapgir was born in Biysk, Altai. This fact is no less original than his work. He often jokingly said: "There are Jews of Bukhara, Siberian, but Altai - I'm probably the only one." It so happened that in 1928, Sapgir's parents, who had previously lived in the famous Vitebsk, ended up on a long business trip in Biysk. It was there, in this center of Altai, that Henry was born. Soon, after the birth of little Heinrich, my mother went with him to Moscow, and the rest of his life passed - with departures, departures - in this city. But both in Vitebsk and in Moscow, Henry's parents spoke Yiddish, and this language has always remained in his memory: Hebrew words, phrases, sayings often interspersed with Russians in his speech.

For the first time, the noise around the name of Sapgir arose when the famous literary anthology "Metropol" (1979) appeared. In it, along with the poems of E. Evtushenko, A. Voznesensky, were published the poems of G. Sapgir and E. Rein. Then he and Rein got away with it - against the background of celebrities, their names were not honored. But, at the same time, the collection "Metropol" marked the first publication of "adult" poems by Sapgir in the USSR.

The first book of children's poems by G. Sapgir was published in the USSR in 1960, the second - already solid, "Selected", was published in 1993 in Moscow. This book became evidence that the master entered Russian literature. Who is he? Poet? A prose writer? Experimenter writing for the prepared reader? One thing was clear - the name of Genrikh Sapgir burst into Russian literature firmly and for a long time.

My acquaintance with Henrikh Veniaminovich took place on the phone, in the fall of 1991 he called me. I remember his voice, accent in particular. It seemed to me somewhat shtetl-Jewish. But this is by phone. In life, both the voice and the accent were completely different. Why did you call me at home? I was glad that in my book I mentioned the name of his beloved poet and friend Ovsei Ovseevich Driza. At that time, I not only did not know him personally, but I was not familiar with his work, except for translations from Ovsey Driz.

In recent years, we have met often and talked for a long time. I remember the meeting at the end of December 1995 at the anniversary of Yevgeny Borisovich Rein. Genrikh Veniaminovich recited poetry. I immediately realized that these poems have something to do with the hero of the day, however, as with most true poets. Sapgir published them in full in his book "Flying and Sleeping", dedicating them to Eugene Rein and entitled "Without a name".

Running away from jealous depression

Best of the day

and longing like Faust for youth

spent days lying around - lounging on the beach

dried up to blackness

poet - a vobla of imagination

and yet she overtook you

cornered like a woman

threw it into the pillow -

and you saw yourself from the back

through inverted binoculars:

do not imagine that you are all alone

you hear a crunch and rustle -

steps on the pebbles behind you

a whole crowd of the living and the dead

enter the eyes and ears

like in your own home

perhaps they will fly with you to Paris

and to America - in the window

cute company in the clouds - all the same -

then green then red -

on the flashing wing of the Boeing

Heinrich Sapgir is an amazing storyteller. Perhaps, of the people with whom I met, only Eugene Rein could "compete" with him in this skill. Once Heinrich in a taxi forgot a folder with other people's manuscripts, which he was given to read. Rising home and ringing the doorbell, he remembered the forgotten and immediately rushed downstairs in the hope of returning the papers. Of course, that taxi was no longer there, but he got into another and caught up with the manuscripts "not far from his house, near the Novoslobodskaya metro station. Fortunately, there was a traffic jam." Not having settled with the "new" driver, he generously thanked the first taxi driver, and when he came home, he remembered that he had offended his savior. Fortunately, he remembered the number of the car. He had to find the person he needed through a taxi company in order to settle accounts with him. And so he did.

In one of our conversations, Henry said: "Ask me any questions you want. You will find the answers to any of your questions in my books. I think I gave you my last book. Now let's raise another koisu (glass - Hebrew)." ...

If Sapgir had translated only Driz's "Cholem Wise Men", making them a part of Russian literature, then this alone would have been enough to attribute him to Russian-Jewish writers. But he also wrote wonderful verses on biblical subjects, in particular "Psalms of David" and "Three Hebrew Lessons".

why are you worried

what does it matter!

What is it? What's the matter?

stinks here

this is true?

is it true that you:

what a truth!

stay calm

Trust me

drop it

I'm still waiting

trouble

relatives most likely

Hard to say

do me a favour

sit still don't go

Go to hell!

hello goodbye

Take care

nigmar hainyan

Literary critic Andrei Ranchin was right when he wrote about Sapgir's work: “Probably, the main property of the poetic gift of Genrikh Sapgir is freedom from any canons and frameworks. Sapgir often writes as if before him there was not a single poet, not a single poetic text. themselves in "imitations" of poets of different eras.

"The poems of Ovsey Driza, from the long cycle" Khelom wise men ", I happened to hear the translator at the last, it seems, lifetime evening of the poet. Ovsey read his poems: he sang in the original language. The impression and now, a quarter of a century later, remains huge: Driza Sapgir was not the only one who translated, but today it is possible and should only be reread these translations - masterpieces worthy of Sholem Aleichem, "- this is written in the Anthology of World Poetry in Russian Translations of the Twentieth Century." Here are excerpts from the brilliant "Chelom" poetic duet Sapgir-Driz:

Hard to believe,

I do not argue with you

But in the city of Chelome,

There was no bath.

From the poorest

To the richest

Everyone washed in troughs,

Basins and tubs.

Not yet reached

Before Helom, the news,

What is beyond the sea

There are Turkish baths.

Turkish baths

Pure marble:

Do you want to wash

Drive yourself across the sea.

And somehow they came

To the wise men the townspeople:

It's time for us to build

Turkish baths,

Turkish baths

Of pure marble

Not to drive

Hard to believe

I do not argue with you

But the wisest,

Glittering eyes

Gave the carpenter

The wisest advice

Which have not been heard

A thousand years:

To plan the boards!

Strict, do not be lazy.

But just put them

Shaved down.

Hard to believe,

But in the Turkish bath

People wash

Since then in Turkish.

With iron bands

Like in the clouds.

They sit in felt boots

And in the shoes.

Heinrich Sapgir translated several dozen of Driza's poems. Their creative community was a continuation of a personal friendship. Distant in age (Henry was twenty years younger than Ovsei), who received various upbringing (Ovsey Driz, who grew up in the town of "Krasnoe" in Podolia, who knew Jewish traditions and Yiddish from childhood, Henry, as already mentioned, grew up in Moscow), they supported each other in good and bad times. Driz's poems have not been published in their native language for a long time, since 1934. But in 1959 his collection "The Merry Baker" was published in Russian. It contained many translations of G. Sapgir, however, as well as in the following collections by Driz "Top of Summer" (1961), "The tree has arrived (1966).

What united these two different people the most? Love for children, for their imagination; belief in the reality of fantasy and, of course, humor. G. Sapgir called O. Driz "the main pioneer of the country", because Ovsey's birthday - May 19 - coincided with the birthday of the pioneer organization named after. V.I. Lenin. All this is true, but most of all they were related by respect for the Talmud.

Oh, how beautifully leaves are born!

Like the fists of a newborn

Still compressed,

Still closed,

But already aimed at the sky:

All is mine!

Oh, how beautifully the leaves die!

Like open wax palms

Who leaves for another world:

Look,

We took nothing with us

This poem testifies that both Ovsey Driz and Henrikh Sapgir knew the Talmud. It says in it: "A person comes into the world with clenched palms, and, as it were, says: the whole world is mine, but leaves it with open palms, and, as it were, says: look, I am not taking anything with me."

I think that the top of the mountain, whose name is "Sapgir-Driz" was the poem "Purple Day".

Many memoirs and poems have been written about Mikhoels' funeral. The unforgettable lines of Peretz Markish from his poem "Mikhoelsu - an inextinguishable lamp" and today, more than half a century after the funeral of the actor, cannot leave you indifferent. And even against the background of this majestic poem "Violet Day" by Driza, translated by G. Sapgir, it remains a symphony of memory and sorrow that entered eternity.

The day was purple

Cloudy sky - fish scales

Somewhere trams, cars,

And here on Malaya Bronnaya,

There was silence

And a strange procession

Yellow - red - green

The jesters walked in silence.

It was gloomy and damp

Jesters carried on their shoulders

We walked carefully

As on the edge of an abyss

In its solemn absurdity

Magnificent Jesters

Silence mourned him

Only bells jingled

Sewn on clown caps:

Dzin - dzin, dzin - dzin.

The day was purple.

The sky swam like a big fish.

The pipes did not weep.

And the flutes did not squeal.

Only bells were crying

They rang: dzin - dzin,

dzin - dzin.

The day was like night.

Torment distorted the comedian's mask.

Look, there on the roof of the house

The gray-haired violinist appeared.

And the blue flame of her hair rose!

And the violin sang -

Gold fish!

Cry, fish, cry.

Over the face of the king - the secret of secrets:

This old violinist.

There was a great Einstein.

But the jesters did not know this.

And the day was purple

It was damp.

“Entering the“ strange land of Sapgir, ”you soon feel natural, as in reality. The world itself slipped him a mold for bending its own idea of ​​the world’s structure.

But the truth sparkles in this poetry not only from the collisions of incompatible concepts and shifts of meaning, but also from the very construction of the verse. Sapgir is a master in all areas of poetic form-making, "- said one of the most outstanding writers of our time, Andrei Bitov, about him.

One of his best books "Flying and Sleeping" was published in 1997. Reading this book, I often recalled the paintings of the early Chagall. There is something in common between these two artists (in fact, in the title of the book "Flying:" there is already something of Chagall, Vitebsk). I think, most likely, these two artists are united by the desire to bring joy to themselves with their creations, joy that fills their own hearts. They acted as the Baal Shem Tov advised: "He who lives in joy fulfills the will of the Creator." I believe that both Chagall and Sapgir, creating their creations, thought least of all about admirers, admirers. Although they understood that they are and, of course, will be later. The fantasies they create will live forever. Einstein said: "To the one who creates, the fruits of his own imagination seem so necessary and natural that he himself considers them not ways of thinking, but given realities, and he wants everyone to think so."

Here is one of the very characteristic short stories of G. Sapgir:

A PRINCESS.

Strange, this girl remembered herself as a princess.

When I was a princess, she said.

What did you eat then? - I ask.

Fricassee and blancmange.

I don’t know what it is. Apparently, he was not a prince in a past life.

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I really want to find the book "Flum-pam-pam". I don't remember exactly the author. In the 1990s. was on sale at bookstores. All my acquaintances were lost. The book is wonderful! It seems to me that the author is G. Sapgir.

Today we will tell you who Heinrich Sapgir is. Poems for children brought this author the greatest fame. We are talking about a Russian writer, poet, screenwriter and translator. He was born in 1928, November 20, in Biysk (Altai Territory).

Biography

Genrikh Sapgir is the son of a Moscow engineer. In Altai, his father was on a business trip. He soon returned to Moscow with his family. Since 1944, our hero has become a member of the literary studio of the artist and poet Yevgeny Kropivnitsky. The organization worked at the Moscow House of Pioneers. Since the end of the fifties, a circle of close-minded artists and poets has formed around Yevgeny Kropivnitsky and Oscar Rabin, his student. Subsequently, this association was called the Lianozovo school. It was children's creativity that Genrikh Sapgir took up in the Soviet years. Little readers fell in love with his tales. In addition, during this period he created scripts for classic cartoons, in particular, "The Little Engine from Romashkov." As a children's writer, our hero traveled a lot. In 1979 he took part in the work on the uncensored almanac "Metropol". The first publication of more "adult" poems abroad took place in 1968. In the USSR, they were published in 1989, during perestroika. He also acted as a translator. First of all, in this capacity, he manifested himself in his work with the works of Ovsey Driz, Jim Cates and German concrete poetry. Participated in the creation of the anthology "Samizdat of the Century". He is the compiler of the poetry section. During the perestroika period, he became a member of the Writers' Union of Moscow. Was a member of the PEN-club. Joined the DOOS association. He died of a heart attack. He was on his way to the presentation of the anthology Poetry of Silence. His performance was planned there. Wife - Sapgir Kira Alexandrovna - a writer. She was born in 1937. Maiden name is Gurevich.

Creation

Heinrich Sapgir belonged to a rare type of authors of the proteic warehouse. Throughout his career, he was constantly changing and constantly looking for new forms of expression. In his early works, he often turned to social satire. She was distinguished by the author's graceful play forms. Further, you can trace how the poet Henrikh Sapgir gradually changed. His poems began to be filled with landscape lyrics and even civic spirit. The author impeccably mastered the traditional methods of creating poetry, in particular, sonnet, but he developed experimental forms. Critics called him a classic of the Russian avant-garde of our time. He is the author of many books. If we consider the late period of the author's work, he organically combines a variety of expressive means with laconicism. Also in the works of our hero there is a striving for an ecstatic state of mind, sincere unexpected pathos, irony, grotesque, accuracy of details, reckless experiment. The poet is a follower of such geniuses as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov.

Prizes

Henrikh Sapgir is a laureate of the Pushkin Prize of the Russian Federation. He was awarded at the Turgenev Festival of Small Prose. He also received awards from the magazines Strelets and Znamya.

Editions

In 1962, the author's book "The Tale of the Star Chart" was published. In 1970, the work "Animals on Charge" appeared. In 1993 the Library of New Russian Poetry was published. In 1995 "Smyantsy" was published. In 1997 the book "Flying and Sleeping" was published. In 1999, the work "Armageddon" appeared, as well as a collection of works. The following works belong to the pen of our hero: "Losharik", "Summer with Angels", "Unfinished Sonnet", "The Book of Alphabet, Rhymes, Riddles and Poems", "The Planet of Childhood", "Folding", "Wonder Forests", "Four envelope ". The writer is the author of the translation of the book "White Flame" (Ovsey Driz). His poems are also featured in sheet music. He is the author of the lyrics: "The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase", "Visiting the Dwarfs", "Blue Elephant", "Santa Claus and the Gray Wolf", "Cinderella", "The Princess and the Cannibal", "Flashlight Ball", "Not at all scary ”,“ The Secret of the Yellow Bush ”,“ The Serpent in the Attic ”,“ The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Ordinary and Unbelievable ”,“ Laughter and Grief by the White Sea ”.

Screenwriter

Heinrich Sapgir worked actively in this capacity as well. In particular, he was the author of the script for the following works: "The Frog is Looking for Daddy", "The Bear Cub on the Road", "The Main Star", "My Green Crocodile", "How to Become Big", "The Legend of Grieg", "The Locomotive from Romashkov" , "Happiness is not in the hat", "Nothing is forgotten", "Scarecrow", "Sun grain", "Sweet fairy tale", "I will draw the sun", "End of the earth", "Donkey Plush", "Amazing whale", " In the thirtieth century "," Breeze "," The most respected "," Magic lanterns "," Fictions in faces "," First meetings "," Thank you "," How the goat held the earth "," Morning music "," And my mother forgive "," Our nanny "," Bird holiday "," The tale of greed "," Churidilo "," If you don't like - don't listen "," Silver hoof "," My friend is a traffic light "," The princess and the cannibal "," Pie with a laughing man ”,“ Moroz Ivanovich ”,“ Sweet spring ”.

Genrikh Veniaminovich Sapgir (1928 - 1999) did not immediately come to the subject of children. His multifaceted work penetrated deeply into many spheres of human life, which was appreciated at the unofficial level of readers' sympathy and at the official level - with awards for his contribution to Russian literature.

For his great creative life, Sapgir was awarded many state awards:

• at the festival of small prose dedicated to I.S. Turgenev, he was awarded the "For Special Merit"
• awards of the magazines "Znamya" and "Strelets"
• G.V. Sapgir was the winner of the Pushkin Prize

The Writer's Path to Children's Creativity

Sapgir began writing poetry for children after a meeting with Boris Slutsky, who introduced him to the editor-in-chief of the Detsky Mir magazine. This meeting marked the beginning of a new era in the poet's creative activity.

Every writer has his own path in literature. Before children's poems G.V. Sapgir acted as a social satirist, landscape lyrics and civic poetry were reflected in his work. He penned the works of such a poetic genre as the sonnet. Sapgir has several cycles. His poetic gift turned to verbal experimentation, which began with the futurists.

Sapgir - the great experimenter of the word

According to critics, Sapgir was looking for harmony in the language, he boldly experimented. Heinrich Veniaminovich did it especially well in children's poems, where he gave life to a whole generation of new children's words, immortalized by him not only in literature, but also in life. Sapgir enriched poems for children with such cute and incomprehensible images, which are reflected in the titles of many of his collections and works:

• "Laughters"
• "Losharik"
• "Skleden"

And, believe me, it is only adults who do not quite understand what kind of heroes we are talking about. Children have long been friends with the charming heroes of Sapgir. This happens because a big child has always lived in the soul of the writer, who is fluent in the language of children. In this simple and completely serious language, he wrote many scripts for cartoons beloved by children:

• "Fictions in faces"
• "Amazing Kitten"
• "The locomotive from Romashkov"
• "The frog is looking for daddy"

And there are over 50 cartoons in which Sapgir was the author of the script or its co-author. He wrote the lyrics for 12 cartoons, such as:

• "Santa Claus and the gray wolf"
• "Cinderella"
• "Adventures of the yellow suitcase"

The magic of Sapgir's poems, enchanting a child's soul

The treasury of children's poems, songs, cartoons, called the work of Sapgir, is a whole library for family reading, in which there are about 20 editions. Starting from poems, very small and peculiar: alphabets for preschool children - to the fascinating world of travel of the best friends of children, animals, a fantastically beautiful world appears before the little reader and viewer. Its charm is especially emphasized by the possibilities of the cartoon, capturing kids to a bright and unusually fascinating country, where kind and noble children's heroes live, talking animals live, flowers of extraordinary beauty bloom.

And behind all this wonderful world, generous in imagination and invention, there is a favorite children's writer - Genrikh Veniaminovich Sapgir. It is to him that the parents owe the wide, happy smiles of their babies, whom they simply have to “tear off” from TV screens and computer monitors, if it’s time to sleep, and the cartoon is not over yet.

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Biography: Genrikh Veniaminovich Sapgir (1928-1999) - Russian poet, prose writer. Born in Biysk, Altai Territory, in the family of a Moscow engineer who was on a business trip in Altai and soon returned with his family to Moscow. Since 1944, a member of the literary studio of the poet and artist Yevgeny Kropivnitsky at one of the Moscow houses of pioneers (Leningradsky district).

Since the late 1950s, a close circle of aesthetically close poets and artists has formed around Kropivnitsky and his student, artist Oskar Rabin, which later became known as the "Lianozovo school" (Rabin lived not far from the Lianozovo station near Moscow). In the Soviet years, Sapgir was widely published as a children's writer (he wrote the scripts of the classic cartoons "The Little Engine from Romashkovo" and others, the words of the song "Green Carriage" (translated from Yiddish, poems by Ovsey Driz) and others). In 1979 he participated in the uncensored almanac "Metropol". The first publication of Sapgir's "adult" poems abroad - in 1968, in the USSR - only in 1989, during Perestroika. He also acted as a translator (first of all, the outstanding Jewish poet Ovsey Driz, the German concrete poetry of the American poet Jim Cates). The compiler of the poetic section of the anthology "Samizdat of the Century" (1998), on the basis of which the Internet project "Unofficial Poetry" was created. During the years of perestroika, he became a member of the Moscow Writers 'Union (since 1988), although he had a negative attitude to the idea of ​​the Writers' Union. Has been a member of the Pen Club since 1995; before his death, he joined the DOOS group (in 1999).

Sapgir was one of those who brought poetry back into poetry for kids. In the 1960s, there was a publishing house in Moscow that produced books for the little ones. It was called just that - "Kid". This publishing house had its chief editor, Yuri Pavlovich Timofeev. It was he who once asked the poet Genrikh Sapgir: "And write poems for us!" - About what? - asked Sapgir. - About anything. Well, for example, that it is April. - And if it's April, can I write about cats? - Good, - said Uncle Yura. And such poems have turned out Meow! Finally warm. Spring. In April, cats have no time to sleep. I don’t understand how the guys can sleep in bed in April. Would walk on rooftops Under a big and red moon

And after that, children's poems fell from Sapgir, like apples from an apple tree. The heroes of the poet's poetic tales - Losharik, the Cannibal and the Princess, the laughter from the country of Laughter, the train from Romashkov, became widely known. In 1960, the publishing house "Detsky Mir" published the first collection of works by G. Sapgir for children, entitled "First Acquaintance". All these heroes are distinguished by a fundamental fiction: their existence is completely dependent on the play of the imagination.

Genrikh Sapgir wrote children's poems in such a way that it would be interesting for himself, so that the adults would like it, so that the children would be happy. This proves that the poems he wrote work 365 days a year. Every day. And even in the evening, and even at night ...

Editions G. Sapgir. The tale of the star map. Ed. "Children's world", 1962, fig. A. Poret G. Sapgir, Physical Culture and Sport, 1970 G. Sapgir, Library of New Russian Poetry, 1993 G. Sapgir. Laughing people. - M,: ID PIK, 1995 .-- 158 p. G. Sapgir. Summer with angels. -M., UFO, 2000 .-- 445s. G. Sapgir. Losharik. - M: Samovar, 2000 .-- 48p. G. Sapgir. Flying and Sleeping. - M .: UFO, 1997. - 352 p. G. Sapgir. Collected Works. Vol. 1.2. - The third wave, 1999 .-- 320 p. + 320s. G. Sapgir. Book of ABCs, counting rhymes, riddles and poems. - Planet of childhood, M., Astrel, 2002 .-- 232 p. G. Sapgir Forests-miracles. SPb., Publishing house Speech 2013.- 32. ISBN: 978-5-9268-1475-7 artist V. Pivovarov G. Sapgir Skladen. - M .: Vremya, 2008. - 926 p.

Lyrics writer 1970 - "The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase" 1973 - "Miracle" (in the movie / a Merry Carousel No. 5) (animation) 1975 - "Visiting the Dwarfs" (cartoon) 1976 - "Blue Elephant" (cartoon) 1978 - "Santa Claus and the Gray Wolf" (cartoon) 1979 - "Cinderella" (cartoon) 1979 - "The princess and the cannibal" (in the movie Merry-go-round No. 9) (animated) 1980 - "Flashlight ball" (cartoon) 1981 - "One - peas, two - peas" (cartoon) 1989 - "Laughter and grief by the White Sea" (cartoon)

This book aims to awaken the child's interest in physical education and sports games. Funny poems, funny fairy tales, stories, riddles and counting rhymes give the book a playful, fascinating form. At the same time, it has serious methodological significance. Parents will learn from it how to build a child's day correctly, how to gradually temper him and introduce him to sports that are accessible to his age. Sophia Prokofieva, Genrikh Sapgir: Ruddy cheeks "Physical culture and sport", 1987

Sapgir's children's poems are light, well-rhymed works about animals, family, school. Game situations in Sapgir's children's poems not only serves to entertain children, but also plays a milestone role in their development. So, preschoolers who master the skills of writing in block letters write some letters in a mirror image - this is a typical mistake, so such writing of the text does not pose a problem for children's perception. Sapgir's play with the reader can be transformed into a serious stylistic device in other texts aimed at those for whom play remains the basis of thinking for life and no longer becomes entertainment, but a way of cognition.

Also, after reading the book, you can show the children a cartoon and analyze what they see with the children's ideas, which also contributes to the development of the creative imagination and thinking of children. G. Sapgir's books are recommended for reading to children of preschool and primary school age. They can be used when working on: Development of imagination and creative thinking of children; Formation of a favorable microclimate in the group and the establishment of friendly relations between children. It should also be noted that G. Sapgir's poems can not only be read, but many of them are known to us as songs, so they can be used to develop the musicality of children. BREAKERS - Sapgir.

In his "New Primer" Sapgir defends the traditional method of teaching reading by letter. He compiled columns of words, selecting them so that the letters and sounds in the words echo vertically, horizontally and diagonally, creating graphic and sound-semantic correspondences, folding into certain phrases. In essence, these columns are a game, the initial exercises in the poem: SHA-RY WE-LA MA-WE WE UM LU-NA MA-LA UM-NA USH-LA NA-SHA MA-MA MA-SHA SHU-RA- MA U-RA

The element of the poet Sapgir is secrets, speech, metamorphosis of words. The synthesis of graphics and music of words gives rise to the poetry of metaphors that lead the reader into the deep labyrinths of the Word. For example, the poem "Game", like many other works from the "New Primer", is built on the play of letters, sounds, words and phenomena: The musician played the trumpet. The pipe looked like a snail. The snail looked like a house. The house looked like a cup overturned. The cup looked like a teapot. The teapot looked like Ivan Ivanovich. Ivan Ivanovich was a musician and played the trumpet. Many of his poems for children are a kind of exercises for the development of speech: What kind of LI? What kind of MON? There is no sense in the sounds. But they hardly whisper: LI-MON - It will immediately become sour.

He is the author of over twenty plays for children; many of them have been staged in theaters in our country and abroad. Together with S. Prokofieva, he wrote the plays "Puss in Boots" and "Vasilisa the Beautiful", which for a long time remained in the repertoire of the tyuz.

Thank you for your attention!

HENRIKH VENIAMINOVICH SAPGIR

Dates of life November 20, 1928 - October 7, 1999
Place of Birth : city of Biysk, Altai Territory
Soviet, Russian writer and poet, screenwriter, translator
Notable works : "The Adventures of Kubarik and Tomatik, or Merry Mathematics", "The Princess and the Cannibal", "Churidilo"

Heinrich Sapgir. Poems for children brought this author the greatest fame.
Born November 20, 1928 into a Jewish family in Biysk, Altai Territory, the son of a Moscow engineer who was on a business trip in Altai and soon returned with his family to Moscow.
Since 1944, he has been a member of the literary studio of the poet and artist Yevgeny Kropivnitsky at the House of Pioneers of the Leningradsky District of Moscow. Since the late 1950s, a close circle of aesthetically close poets and artists has formed around Kropivnitsky and his student, artist Oskar Rabin, which later became known as the "Lianozovo school" (Rabin lived not far from the Lianozovo station near Moscow).
In the Soviet years, Sapgir was published a lot as a children's writer (he wrote the scripts for the animated films "The Little Engine from Romashkov", "Losharik", "My Green Crocodile", "The Frog Is Looking for Daddy" and others, the words to the song "Green Carriage" (translated from Yiddish, poems by Ovsey Driza) and others).
In 1979 he participated in the Metropol almanac. The first publication of Sapgir's "adult" poems abroad was in 1965, in the USSR - only in 1989. He also acted as a translator. The compiler of the poetic section of the anthology "Samizdat of the Century" (1998), on the basis of which the Internet project "Unofficial Poetry" was created.
He died of a heart attack in a Moscow trolleybus on his way to the presentation of the anthology Poetry of Silence, where he was supposed to speak. ("Trolleybus flight to heaven", - line in the text of Heinrich Sapgir "Strange border", 1999).

HENRIKH VENIAMINOVICH SAPGIR

Almost all primers and alphabets are built according to the principle: what this or that letter looks like. "Primer" by Henry Sapgir is no exception.
Here's about the letter B:
Cheerful fat clown
plays the trumpet.
On this pot-bellied
the letter B looks like.
But about the letter U:
The whole letter Y is bent,
holds his wand,
it looks like this
an old grandmother with a hook.
"Primer", as well as various Sapgir's alphabets, are absolutely wonderful books. They have everything that is in the school primer: poems, riddles, proverbs. But there are also amazing word games and stories that allow readers to make important discoveries.
“I saw the boy ripping off the wings of a fly. I myself once tore off the legs of a spider. And then he sang: "Kosi-Kosi, leg!" Many years later. Now I am ashamed. And I did a cruel thing. And my song was meaningless.
When I see pictures of the war on the TV screen and hear the marching marches, I think: “And their work is cruel. And their songs have no meaning. "
The fantastic world of Sapgir admits only those who know how to see miracles in the surrounding objects. Often the poet is puzzled by the question:
In the morning to my room
The butterfly flew in.
Sat on the edge of the table
She shook her wings
The tendrils led
And fluttered, flew away ...
What did she want to say?
And sometimes it puzzles me with the answer:
The aliens were on Earth.
The plate sat on the table.
Aliens look like salad
So they ate them, they say.
He always finds a new use for words, revealing them so that we feel what their shell hides, and why they sometimes act like this on people:
What kind of LI?
What kind of MON?
There is no sense in the sounds.
But they barely whisper:
"LEMON"
It will immediately become sour.
For Sapgir, children's literature became a fabulous island, to which he was exiled by adult literature and hostile Soviet reality. He himself said that he would never have guessed to write for children, if not for the need to earn a living. Sapgir belonged to the famous "Lianozovo" group of writers, which consisted of bright personalities, rebels against dullness, innovators, brilliant stylists. At home, it was not published for a long time, after the first publication of poems took place abroad, they were expelled from the Writers' Union. He returned to adult literature only in the late 80s.
But children's literature - his wonderful emigration - became richer for a whole page of its history, so great is Sapgir's role in it. He left a large legacy. The main thing in it is the poems that Sapgir began to write in childhood (one of them was even published in Pionerskaya Pravda). In 1960, his first children's book, "First Acquaintance", appeared. Then several collections were published, the poems of which became classics: "Laughing men" ("Laughing people lived in the land of Laughter. The laughing people loved fun and dancing ..."), "The Ogre and the Princess" ("The princess was beautiful, the weather was terrible ... ").
Sapgir is a wonderful translator of poems by Ovsey Driz, A.A. Miln. Translations of Milne's poems "Winnie the Pooh and Me" add new colors to our perception of the funny bear cub and his friend Christopher Robin. In co-authorship with another "famous unknown", an excellent writer Gennady Tsyferov, Sapgir wrote scripts for the cartoons "Losharik", "Locomotive from Romashkov", "My green crocodile", "The frog is looking for daddy." He also wrote plays that have been shown in children's theaters in our country and abroad for many years.