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Erich Kästner
Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography When I Was a Little Boy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in eight separate years.
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culture · German author, poet and satirist (1899–1974) · writer · poet · novelist · children's writer · screenwriter · journalist · playwright · cabaret performer · opinion journalist · musician · also Erich Kästner, Emil Erich Kästner, Erick Kästner, Kästner
Born 23 February 1899 · Died 29 July 1974 · Q76546
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
noz: Lässt Dresden seinen großen Sohn Erich Kästner im Stich?
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Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Die letzte Einstellung" von Isabel Kreitz: Erich Kästner und die Nazis
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2024· 3 entries
ZEIT: Werk von Erich Kästner: Die kleine Tür in der Wand
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Bild: Erich Kästner: 125. Geburtstag des bedeutsamen Autors – Ein Rückblick
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Stuttgarter Zeitung: 125 Jahre Erich Kästner Dresden feiert den Vater von Emil und den Detektiven
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2022· 1 entry
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Tagung über Erich Kästner in München
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Pünktchen und Anton”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Der kleine Mann und die kleine Miss”.
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Under the title Das Blaue Buch (The Blue Book)
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Released album “Das Schwein beim Friseur und andere Geschichten”.
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Released album “Der 35. Mai”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Interview mit dem Weihnachtsmann”.
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Released album “Der kleine Mann”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Emil und die Detektive”.
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1974· 1 entry
Died 1974-07-29.
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1968· 3 entries
Awarded Kulturpreis der deutschen Freimaurer (1968).
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Awarded Lessing Ring (1968).
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Received the Lessing-Ring together with the literary prize of the German Masonic Order
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1960· 3 entries
Awarded Hans Christian Andersen Award (1960).
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For his autobiography When I Was a Little Boy
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Kästner received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for When I Was a Little Boy, his autobiography
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1959· 1 entry
Won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Literary Prize of the State Capital of Munich (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
By Kurt Hoffmann, in 1973 by Werner Jacobs and in 2003 by Tomy Wigand
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1953· 1 entry
Was founding member of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People)
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1951· 1 entry
Kästner was elected President of the PEN Center of West Germany, and he remained in office until 1961
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1944· 1 entry
Kästner's home in Berlin was destroyed during a bombing raid
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1942· 1 entry
Received a special exemption to write the screenplay for Münchhausen, using the pseudonym Berthold Bürger
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1929· 1 entry
When Nick, then Head of the Music Department at Radio Silesia, wrote the music for Kästner's radio play Leben in dieser Zeit
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1928· 1 entry
And by 1933 he had published three more collections
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1925· 1 entry
Received a doctorate for a thesis on Frederick the Great and German literature
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1917· 1 entry
And was trained at a heavy artillery unit in Dresden
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1916· 1 entry
Shortly before completing the exams that would have qualified him to teach in state schools
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1913· 1 entry
Kästner entered a teacher training school in Dresden
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1899· 1 entry
Born 1899-02-23.
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