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He was born in Reichenberg, Bohemia (Liberec, Czechoslovakia).
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( One spring day, the little Water Sprite is born in a ho...)
One spring day, the little Water Sprite is born in a house of reeds at the bottom of a mill pond. Duckweed soup, pickled water fleas, and other dainties are served to celebrate. The little Water Sprite grows up quickly, and soon he is bored of gazing out the window at the newts and fish swimming by. There is a whole new world to see outside his living room, and the little Water Sprite is determined to explore it! In the pond he makes friends with Cyprian the carp and encounters the fearsome nine-eyed lamprey, but his most thrilling adventures await him on dry land.
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(The little witch was only a hundred and twenty-seven year...)
The little witch was only a hundred and twenty-seven years old. That's not at all old for a witch. She spent about six hours a day doing exercises in witchcraft, but the couldn't get her spells right. Then she got into deep disgrace at the Walpurgis Night Party. She was given a year to make herself into a good witch or be expelled. This is in English with individual words/expressions translated into German in footnotes.
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( “Once upon a time there was a little witch who was only...)
“Once upon a time there was a little witch who was only a hundred and twenty-seven years old”—that’s how the story of the little witch and her talking raven Abraxas begins, and though one hundred and twenty-seven isn’t at all old for a witch, Little Witch already has a big problem. Every year, on Walpurgis Night, all the witches of the land meet to dance on Brocken Mountain. Little Witch is still too little to be invited, but this year she decided to sneak in anyway—and got caught by her evil aunt Rumpumpel! Little Witch is in disgrace. Her broomstick has been burned. She’s been made to walk home. She’s been told that she has a year to pull off some seriously good witchcraft if she wants to be invited to Walpurgis Night ever. And then there’s an even bigger problem: What after all does it mean to be a good witch? One way or another, by the end of the story, Little Witch will have proved herself to be the biggest and best witch of all.
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(Adventure and lots of screaming in this gorgeous story of...)
Adventure and lots of screaming in this gorgeous story of a little night ghost who wakes up at midday. In a locked chest in a dusty attic of Castle Eulenstein lives little Ghost. At the stroke of midnight each night little Ghost wakes up. He haunts the castle happily and sometimes visits his friend the owl, Mr Twoohoo, and then at the stroke of one, he falls asleep in his chest. It has been like this for as long as little Ghost can remember. His greatest wish is to see the world in daylight, just once. But how can he make his wish come true? And what will the townsfolk make of a ghost in the daytime?
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(The Robber Hotzenplotz is a merry tale of two scoundrels,...)
The Robber Hotzenplotz is a merry tale of two scoundrels, two friends, a toad-fairy, and an unforgettable escapade. The Robber Hotzenplotz works hard at his job, waking early to hide in the woods and waylay new victims. One morning Kasperl’s grandmother is sitting in the sun outside her house, grinding coffee in her new musical coffee mill—a birthday gift from Kasperl and his best friend Seppel—when suddenly Hotzenplotz, attracted by the music, leaps out to steal the mill. Sergeant Dimplemoser hears Grandmother’s cries and comes to her aid, but Hotzenplotz has evaded the useless police for years. So Kasperl and Seppel vow to catch the robber themselves. But catching robbers is not as easy as all that ... Kasperl and Seppel soon discover that even the best-laid plans can be foiled, especially when Hotzenplotz enlists the help of his wicked magician friend Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.
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He was born in Reichenberg, Bohemia (Liberec, Czechoslovakia).
After he graduated school in 1942, in the midst of World World War II, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht Heer.
More than 50 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and they have been translated into 55 languages. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat). Although he survived the military action on the Eastern Front, he was taken prisoner as a 21-year-old lieutenant in 1944.
He spent the next five years in various Prisoner Of War camps in the Tatar Republic.
A school is named after Otfried Preußler. lieutenant is called "Otfried Preußler Gymnasium Pullach", which is in Germany, Munich, Pullach.
After his release in June 1949, he found his displaced relatives and his fiancée, Annelies Kind in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim. Between 1953 and 1970, he was initially a primary school teacher, then a school principal in Rosenheim.
There his talents as a storyteller and illustrator were put to good use, and often the stories he told the children would later be written down and published.
Preußler resided in Haidholzen, near Rosenheim. Having essentially retired from writing stories, which had become his main occupation, he undertook the relation of his experiences as a prisoner in the Prisoner Of War camps. Those memoirs are to be published after his death.
( “Once upon a time there was a little witch who was only...)
(The Robber Hotzenplotz is a merry tale of two scoundrels,...)
(Adventure and lots of screaming in this gorgeous story of...)
( One spring day, the little Water Sprite is born in a ho...)
(Hotzenplotz becomes an escaped prisoner and is confused w...)
(The little witch was only a hundred and twenty-seven year...)
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