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"Especially fond of children", she is not, has always badured Christine Nöstlinger. She was the author of the most important children's books in Austria. Now, she died at the age of 81. The author was buried today.
With figures such as "Die feuerrote Friederike" or "Gretchen Sackmeier", Nöstlinger has created international clbadics. The path of literature was not planned: the girl born in 1936 of a watchmaker and a teacher originally wanted to become a visual artist. As she was bored as a housewife and mother of two daughters (born in 1959 and 1961) after studying graphic design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, she drew and wrote "Die feuerrote Friederike" ( 1970). Above all, the text has been so successful that it's dedicated to writing from now on
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Many books have also been filmed
She was one of the first German-speaking authors last year, Mirjam Unger filmed the autobiographical novel "Mayfly, fly" (1973) and the successor "Two weeks in May" (1981). ) memories of the war and the postwar period. Other titles include "Children of the Children's Cellar" (1971), "We Whistle the King of Cucumber" (1972), of which more than a million books have been sold, "A man for "(1972)," Attention, Vranek sees "(1974)," Rosa Riedl Schutzgespenst "(1979)," The dog comes! "(1987)," The dwarf in the head "(1989)," Anna and the Fury "(1990) or" Villa Henriette "(1996), which, like many other books, was also turned into a film.
In recent years, among others his series "Mini" and "Stories of Franz" in several volumes for long runs. Nöstlinger tackles problematic issues in a humorous way, combining realistic representations of the milieu, social criticism and fantasy in a language with dialectical expressions and new idiosyncratic creations.
"I do not always have to follow what adults want! I am a free child and I know better what is good for me, "he says in" Hugo, the child in the best years "(1984). Such an attitude marked a turning point in the early years of Nöstlinger in the tradition of children's index literature and reached the liberal nerve of the generation after 1968.
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Nöstlinger also advocated the nineties. Emancipation and Equal Rights
"Being a woman is not a sport"
The highly productive "letter factory" (Nöstlinger about Nöstlinger) also wrote scripts, radio plays and plays and worked as a literary critic for radio and various newspapers and magazines, among other things she created the radio series "Dschi-Dschei-Wischer" for the ORF in 1979. In his (among other titles) also published in columns of books for various newspapers echoes again and again the social and political commitment of the author.
Being a woman is not a sport, "title the title of a collection of columns (Residenz Verlag) published in the year 75 under the title of" House book for all situations of life " ". Nöstlinger was president of the human rights organization "SOS Mitmensch" from 1997 to 1998.
Multiple awards
The most famous texts of Nöstlinger for adults include the volumes of dialectal poetry "Iba of Gaunz oaman Kinda" (1974) (1982) and "Iba of Gaunz oaman Mauna" (1987). On non-fiction books appeared among other things "A dog entered the kitchen." Small Köchelverzeichnis for men "(1996) and" ABC for grandmothers "(1999) – a role that she plays herself in her private life. His two daughters Christi (a) Nöstlinger and Barbara Waldschütz contributed to the illustration of several of their books
Nöstlinger has received numerous awards for his work and was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize in 1984 for his work complete. Honorary Award of the Austrian Book Trade for Tolerance in Thought and Action and in 2003 the First Prize Astrid Lindgren, the "Nobel Prize for Children's Literature". In 2014, the Austrian Book Prize for Children and Youth was added for "When my father wanted to marry the mother of Anna Lachs."
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