Career
Waldemar Bonsels"s most famous work is the children"s book Die Biene Maja (Maya the Bee). This work also served the basis for a Japanese animated television series named Maya the Honey Bee in the early 1980s, as well as a Croatian opera for children written by Bruno Bjelinski, making Bonsels work known to even a great audience. The Opera was staged 2008 in Villach, Austria at the Carinthian Summer Music Festival.
Another work of his is "People in the sky" (Himmelsvolk) a work describing a in mystical terms the unity of all creation and its relationship to God.
He travelled extensively in Europe and Asia. Voyage in India (Indienfahrt) is the fruit of one of these travels.
Bonsels was an outspoken anti-Semite and expressed his approval of Nazi politics against Jews in 1933, calling the Jew "a deadly enemy" who was "poisoning the culture" in an article which was widely published.