Released album “Momo”.
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Michael Ende
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction. He is known for his epic fantasy The Neverending Story ; other well-known works include Momo and Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 35 million copies.
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entertainment · German writer (1929–1995) · writer · children's writer · screenwriter · science fiction writer · short story writer · fantasy author · actor · director · poet · musician · also Michael Ende, Ende
Born 12 November 1929 · Died 28 August 1995 · Q76498
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2023· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
Released album “Jim Knopf und Lukas - Auf zu neuen Ufern”.
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “Jim Knopf und der Lokomotivführer”.
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Jim Knopf und Lukas, der Lokomotivführer”.
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Jim Knopf und die wilde 13, Folge 2”.
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Released album “Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13, Folge 1”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Jim Knopf findet's raus - Geschichten über Lokomotiven, Vulkane und Scheinriesen”.
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “Momo: Folge 2 – Momo und die grauen Herren”.
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Released album “Momo: Folge 1 – Momo und ihre Freunde”.
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Released album “Momo: Folge 3 – Momo und die Stundenblumen”.
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Released album “Das Traumfresserchen”.
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Released album “Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer: Das Musical”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Lirum, larum, Willi Warum: Eine unendliche Unsinngeschichte”.
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-08-28.
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1989· 1 entry
To a Japanese woman named Mariko Sato, and they remained married until his death
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year (1986).
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Awarded Bayerischer Poetentaler (1986).
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Michael Ende was invited to attend the annual congress of the JBBY (Japanese Committee for International Children's Literature) in Tokyo
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Zilveren Griffel (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Pier Paolo Vergerio European Prize for Children's Literature for The Neverending Story (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Großer Preis der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V. Volkach (1980).
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1977· 1 entry
From 1977 to 1980 Michael Ende and Mariko Sato worked together to produce a translation into German of ten fairy tales by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa.
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1974· 1 entry
And was working at the time for the International Youth Library in Munich
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo-Jacobi-Preis (1967).
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1964· 1 entry
In Rome, Italy, and ended with Ingeborg Hoffmann's sudden and unexpected death in 1985 from a pulmonary embolism; she was 63 years old
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1959· 1 entry
Wrote a play inspired by Hearn's material
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1955· 1 entry
Therese Angeloff, head of Die kleinen Fische (the 'Little Fish' cabaret), commissioned Ende to write a piece in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death
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1952· 1 entry
On New Year's Eve 1952, Michael Ende met the actress Ingeborg Hoffmann during a party with friends.
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1948· 1 entry
Auditioned for the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich and was granted a two-year scholarship (Haase)
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1946· 1 entry
Michael Ende's grammar school re-opened, and he attended classes for a year, following which the financial support of family friends allowed him to complete his high-school education at a Waldorf School in Stuttgart
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1945· 2 entries
German youths as young as fourteen were drafted into the Volkssturm and sent to war against the advancing Allied armies
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Edgar Ende was taken as a prisoner of war by American GIs, but was released soon after the end of the war
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1944· 1 entry
Edgar Ende's studio at no
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1936· 1 entry
His father's work was declared "degenerate art" and banned by the Nazi Party, so Edgar Ende was forced to draw and paint in secret
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1935· 1 entry
When Michael was six, the Ende family moved to the "artists' quarter of Schwabing" in Munich (Haase)
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-11-12.
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