Otfried Preußler

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born

October 20, 1923 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Czech Republic

gender

male

website

http://www.preussler.de

genre

Children's Books

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Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler) is a German children's books author. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat).

He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1972 for Krabat.
He has sold roughly 50 million copies worldwide.

He was born in Liberec (German: Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia. His forefathers had lived in this area since the 15th century, working in the glass industry. His parents were teachers. After he graduated school in 1942, in the midst of World War II, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht Heer. 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 POW camps in the T...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 4,053 ratings · 159 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Krabat 4.08 avg rating — 1,492 ratings — published 1971 — 35 editions	My rating:
	Die kleine Hexe 4.14 avg rating — 1,062 ratings — published 1957 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Little Ghost by Otfried Preußler, Anthea Bell (translator), F.J. Tripp (illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1966 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Der Räuber Hotzenplotz : Eine Kasperlgeschichte 4.11 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 1962 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Der kleine Wassermann by Otfried Preußler, Winnie Gayler (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1956 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Neues vom Räuber Hotzenplotz 3.80 avg rating — 82 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hotzenplotz Bd.3 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Las aventuras de Vania el Forzudo by Otfried Preußler, Manuel Olasagasti (translator) 4.13 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1971 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Die dumme Augustine 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1972	My rating:
	Bei uns in Schilda 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1958 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Otfried Preußler

“I loved a girl once,' said he. 'Vorshula was her name. She has been lying in the graveyard of Seidewinkel six months now...”
― Otfried Preußler, Krabat

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