Biography of Kesner

However, Kestner wrote not only for young readers. Wolf Zinn, waking up, he discovers that he had lost money. The boy begins to suspect the mysterious gentleman in the pot, who was sitting with him in the compartment. Thus begins a dizzying chase along the streets of Berlin. Emil finds like -minded people - a gang of cunning city boys who challenges the adult world and achieves justice.

This fascinating story, which unfolds on the streets of a large city and has been repeatedly filmed, still with great pleasure people around the world read. Then other books for children who became an unlucking classic: “Button and Anton” was followed. Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer, or "Double Lotthen" by him. Das Doppelte Lottchen, Kestner's books were translated into more than 70 languages.

However, he is remembered not only as an outstanding children's writer, but also as an author of extremely complex literature. The most significant from the literary point of view is his novel Der Gang Vor Die Hunde, which was first printed without abbreviations after the author’s death only in the year. This is the story of one unemployed Germanist-Germanist who wanders through the reckless Berlin in the late 19ths.

The book was published in the year called Fabian. Fabian, but the publisher removed fragments with erotic scenes from it. In addition, Kestner was a lyrical, a witty chronicle and a critical observer of German society. He was also a convinced pacifist who survived the horrors of National Socialism and advocated peace and democratic values. The failed teacher Erich Kestner was born in the year in Dresden and grew up the only child in rather modest conditions.

His father worked at a suitcase factory, and a mentally unbalanced mother, with whom he maintained close relations until her death in the year, was a housekeeper, a homeland and a hairdresser. Since the year, Kestner attended a boarding school, where future teachers were trained. At this time, he published his first verses in the school newspaper. He interrupted his studies shortly before its completion, without becoming a teacher of the people's school.

He later wrote about the beginning of the First World War in the year in his autobiography: "World War began, and my childhood ended." In the year, he was called up for military service. The harsh trials and horrors of war caused him a deep aversion to all militarism. Kestner's career “Lyrics for every day” began to study history, philosophy, germannement and theater studies at the University of Leipzig and defended his doctoral dissertation in the year.

Already during his studies, Erich earned journalism. He published theatrical criticism, reviews, reports, comments and satire in various daily newspapers and in subsequent years became a demanded publicist. Over time, he moved to Berlin, a busy metropolis of the Golden Twentieth. In the capital, he became famous as a poet thanks to his ironic and caustic poems. Kestner himself called them “applied lyrics”, verses for every day.

On the contrary, his name quickly ended up on the list of prohibited writers. Unlike many other artists and critical colleagues who left the country, Kestner remained in Germany, despite the fact that Gestapo was arrested twice. He was even present during the burning of books on Opernplaz Square in Berlin in May, when the Nazis led by the Reichs Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels was also thrown into the fire, including his works.

At first, he believed that all this disgrace would end soon. In addition, being an eyewitness to events, he felt obligated to capture what was happening in Germany. Since then, he has published several books abroad, for example, a very successful novel “Three people in the Snow” by it. Despite the ban on publication in Germany, he continued to write under a pseudonym. Surprisingly, in this way he wrote the script of the feature film “Munchausen” by him.

They say that when it became known shortly before the premiere of the year, Adolf Hitler became furious. The consequence for Kestner was the final ban on the profession. The diverse author and president of the Pen-center after World War II Kestner moved to Munich, where he lived until his death on July 29.

He was again productive as a diverse author, wrote easily, simple and understandable language. Among other things, he led the feuilleton department, published a magazine for children and youth Penguin, and also composed texts for Kabar, Radio and Cinema. From a year, he was the president of the German Pen Center. Throughout his life, Kestner remained faithful to his antimilitarian views.

He was a member of the anti -war movement and often acted with speeches of a warning nature. The works of Erich Kestner are still popular all over the world, because the adventures of Emil in Berlin are as unquenchable as the adult literature of Kestner and his poems, permeated with lightness, cheerfulness, and sometimes moralism.