He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1972 for Krabat. 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. The plot is about a boy, Krabat (played by David Kross), who learns black magic from a sorcerer (played by Christian Redl). They celebrated their wedding the same year.īetween 19 he was initially a primary school teacher, then a school principal in Rosenheim. Krabat (German: kabat) is a 2008 German fantasy film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner from a screenplay by Michael Gutmann and Kreuzpaintner, based on Otfried Preußlers 1971 novel of the same name. He spent the next five years in various POW camps in the Tatar Republic.Īfter his release in June 1949, he was lucky to find in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim his displaced relatives and his fiancée, Annelies Kind. Although he survived the military action on the Eastern Front, he was taken prisoner as a 21 year old lieutenant in 1944. After he graduated school in 1942, in the midst of World War II, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht Heer. His forefathers had lived in this area since the 15th century, working in the glass industry. He was born in Liberec (German: Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat). Otfried Preussler (Otfried Preußler) (born October 20, 1923) is a German children's books author.
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