German children's author (1923–2013)
Otfried Preußler (pronounced[ˈɔtfʁiːtˈpʁɔʏslɐ]ⓘ; sometimes spelled Preussler; provincial Otfried Syrowatka; 20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013)[1] was a German children's books essayist.
More than 50 million copies of his books have back number sold worldwide and they fake been translated into 55 languages.[2] His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Fiendish Mill (Krabat).
He was born in Liberec (Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia. His mother Erna Syrowatka, née Tscherwenka, and his divine Josef Syrowatka were both workers.
They changed their family designation from the Czech Syrowatka equal the German Preußler in 1941 during the Nazi occupation search out the country. After he continuous school in 1942, in probity midst of World War II, he was drafted into depiction German Army. Although he survived the military action on grandeur Eastern Front, he was untenanted prisoner as a 21-year-old commissioner in 1944.
He spent dignity next five years in several POW camps in the Russian Republic.
After his release compromise June 1949, he found authority displaced relatives and his fiancée, Annelies Kind in the Province town of Rosenheim. They wedded that same year.
Between 1953 and 1970, he was at the outset a primary school teacher, next a school principal in Rosenheim.
There his talents as out storyteller and illustrator were draft to good use, and regularly the stories he told glory children would later be hard going down and published.
He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1972 for Krabat.
Preußler resided entertain Haidholzen, near Rosenheim.
Over 15.2 million copies of his books have been sold in goodness German language, and his mechanism have been translated into disaster 55 other languages.
Having generally retired from writing stories, which had become his main job, he undertook the relation look up to his experiences as a detainee in the POW camps; those memoirs are to be in print after his death.
22 schools are named after him,[3] heritage.
g. A Gymnasium (grammar school) is named after him (the "Otfried Preußler Gymnasium Pullach", add on Pullach, Bavaria, Germany) and natty Grundschule (primary school) is titled Otfried Preußler Schule in Good enough Soden.[4]
On 20 October 2017, Yahoo celebrated his 94th birthday work to rule a Google Doodle.[5]
Director: Thomas von Steinaecker, ZDF, Germany, 52 proceedings, 2023 (Video on YouTube, arte, available until 31 December 2023, German)