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Otfried Preußler
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German children's books author (1923–2013)
Film & TV
Reichenberg, Tschechoslowakei
Known for
- Alpha Forum — Self1998
- Tigerenten Club — Self1996
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Liberec
- Place of death
- Prien am Chiemsee
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Notable work
- Krabat
- Field of work
- pedagogy
- Genre
- fairy tale
- Movement
- children's literature
- Official website
- www.preussler.de
- Image
- Otfried Preußler Foto Markus Schlaf honorarfrei.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1923-10-23
- date of death
- 2013-02-18
- name in native language
- Otfried Preußler
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- birth name
- Otfried Syrowatka
- writing language
- German
- P8168
- Georg and Martin von Klausenburg
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Encyclopedic overview
Otfried Preußler (2010) Otfried Preußler ( pronounced [ˈɔtfʁiːt ˈpʁɔʏslɐ] ; sometimes spelled Preussler; born Otfried Syrowatka; 20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013) was a German children's book author.
More than fifty million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and they have been translated into fifty-five languages. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Otfried Preußler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.