Amalendu (book)
Amalendu is a book for young people by Friederike Graßl (also: Grassl, née Wimmer, born June 30, 1932 ; † November 27, 2012 ) with drawings by Kurt Tessmann . The first edition appeared in 1967 with Claudius Verlag Munich, a new edition followed in 1973 with Wilhelm Heyne .
action
The main character is the boy Amalendu. His family owns elephants and one of the elephant cows has a cub. Amalendu's father decides to give him the little elephant. After thinking about the name of the elephant for a long time, he goes to the river where the elephants bathe. He crouches by a tree and sees that an old man is watching him. The man walks up to him and asks why he looked so depressed. Amalendu replied that he couldn't think of a name for his elephant. The old man says that he once had an elephant named Narayan. Amalendu likes this name so much that he calls his elephant that too. Amalendu and Narayan have many exciting adventures together.
expenditure
- Amalendu. A story from India with drawings by Kurt Tessmann . Original edition, Verlag Claudius, Munich 1967
- Heyne-Jugend-Taschenbücher, No. 41, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1973 and 1980, ISBN 3-453-54041-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catholic parish gazette Bad Goisern, parish notice 01/2012, DVR no. 29874 (20332); Online (SWF)
- ↑ Friederike Graßl's obituary notice
- ↑ Charlotte Ferg-Frowein: Kürschner's graphic artist manual. De Gruyter 1967, p. 301: “Tessmann, Kurt Wilhelm Emil, graphic artist, freelance; Munich, born in Leipzig September 10, 1909. "