Annette Langen

Annette Langen

Annette Langen (born April 29, 1967 in Leverkusen ) is a German author for children and young people. Since 1989 she has written over 100 books for children and young people; Parts of her work have been translated into over 30 languages. Her best-known work is the children's book series Letters by Felix , which has been published since 1994.

Life

Annette Langen was born in Leverkusen as the first child of a family of booksellers and grew up in Leichlingen (Rhineland) . After graduating from high school, she trained as a bookseller and then went to the USA to attend a publishing course. Back in Germany, she became a lecturer and designed the program for a children's book publisher for many years. During this time she wrote her first children's books. She has been an exclusively freelance writer since 2000.

Her breakthrough came in 1994 with the book Letters by Felix (illustrated by Constanza Droop ), which was recognized by the Society for Youth and Social Research as a “pedagogically valuable picture book” and repeatedly included in excerpts in school books and teaching materials. In Israel , Letters from Felix was the first German book to hit the bestseller lists after 1945. To date, several serial volumes and non-fiction books as well as a world atlas for children have been published, as well as audio books, games, several TV and cinema adaptations and a musical .

Another series was created from 2000 with Die kleine Motzkuh , illustrated by Imke Sönnichsen and Dorothea Ackroyd, in which intra-family conflicts are taken up with humor and solutions are shown. In the book Der kleine Herr G.Ott or how the world could get a little better, published in 2010, current topics such as religion, war and peace are dealt with from a child's perspective.

In addition to writing, Annette Langen has been volunteering for projects to promote reading and the integration of children for years : In 2001 , she sponsored a primary school in Solingen , since 2011 she has been the reading ambassador of the Reading Foundation and since 2012 patron of a mentoring project in Coesfeld . As part of the action I'll give you a story for World Book Day , her youth book Im Bann des Tornados was published in 2016 and was distributed with a print run of 1.2 million copies. Annette Langen has a daughter and a son and lives in the Bergisches Land .

Awards

• "Book of the Year / Flying Turtle Award in Iran" for: Letters from Felix, Book City and The Research Quarterly of Children and Youth's Literature, February 2015
• ITB Berlin Book Award for Felix, the Hare , in the category: Travel books for children, 2014
• “Book of the month” for “Our own Christmas story”, Institute for Youth Literature in Vienna, December 2012
• Gold record for letters from Felix 2010
• Book favorite for Felix with the children of the world , Book Association Austria, 2006
• NRW Prize "Art and Culture for Children and Young People" for the sponsorship project at the community elementary school in Solingen, 2005
• "Pen of the Month" for letters from Felix , Netherlands, 1995

Works (selection)

• Then dear castle in the air, Coppenrath Verlag , 2018, ISBN 978-3-649-61916-1
• Graciella wants to be a unicorn (illustrations by Anne-Kathrin Behl), NordSüd Verlag , Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-314-10296-7
• I'll give you a story: Under the spell of the tornado (illustrations by Timo Grubing), cbj Verlag , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-570-22598-1
• A Christmas miracle for three (illustrations by Frauke Weldin), Kerle Verlag im Herder Verlag , 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-71176-3
• Summer with a dolphin (illustrations by Betina Goetzen-Beek), Coppenrath Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-649-60500-3
• Ritter Wüterich and Drache Borste (illustration by Katja Gehrmann), NordSüd Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-314-10104-5
• Little Mr. G. Ott or how the world could get a little better, Herder Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-451-70995-1
• Children's Bible in 5-Minute Stories, Herder Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-70999-9
• Letters to Christkind, Coppenrath Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8157-4382-9
• Four paws in the sky, a picture book on the subject of death, Herder Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-29641-3
• Der Wunsch-Opa, Oetinger Verlag , 2002. ISBN 3-7891-0575-9
• The little mooted cow. or: how to chase away the bad mood (illustrations by Imke Sönnichsen), Coppenrath Verlag, 2000. ISBN 978-3-8157-2000-4
• Pirates, Astronauts and Co., Coppenrath Verlag, 1991. ISBN 978-3-88547-666-5
• Funny children's kitchen with the mouse, Coppenrath Verlag, 1989. ISBN 978-3-88547-606-1

Book series

• Letters from Felix
• The children from Kleeberg (with illustrations by Betina Gotzen-Beek )
• Carlotta (with illustrations by Frauke Bahr)
• Mathilda, Mathilda (with illustrations by Dagmar Henze)

Audio books

• Letters to the Christ Child (read by Anna Thalbach), 2009
• Felix's adventures
• Letters from Felix and Other Stories, 2008
• World's best letters from Felix, 2003
• Christmas letters from Felix, 2002
• Circus letters from Felix, 2002
• Adventurous Letters from Felix, 2002
• New letters from Felix, 2002
• Letters from Felix, 2002

Film adaptations / DVD

• The little Motzkuh and her friends, 2009
• Letters from Felix and Other Stories, 2008
• Adventurous Letters from Felix & New Letters from Felix, 2008
• Felix in [ZDF-tivi], 2008, 2009, 2010
• Letters from Felix (cartoon series) , 2002–2006

music

• Felix - the musical! The live DVD, 2009
• Felix - the musical! The original CD, 2008
• The big Felix song album 1, 2003, s. u.
• The big Felix song album 2, 2004, s. u.

Games

• English with Felix CD
• Felix - A wondrous journey through time 1, CD
• Felix - A wondrous journey through time 2, CD
• The adventures of Felix, CD
• Around the world with Felix, An adventurous journey through five continents, 2002
• Discover the world with Felix, an exciting journey to the great secrets of the world, 2002

Web links

• Literature by and about Annette Langen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Annette Langen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Parent-teacher information. (No longer available online.) In: felix-club.de. Coppenrath Verlag, archived from the original on January 23, 2011 ; Retrieved September 17, 2011 . 
2. ^ Gudrun Seifert-Kneer: Letters from Felix. Representation of an interdisciplinary teaching unit . In: Elementary School . tape 29 , no. 11 , 1997, ISSN  0533-3431 , p. 47–50 (short description at www.fachportal-paedagogik.de ).
3. ↑ "I was never the 'pink princess' type". In: goethe.de. Retrieved September 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ A rabbit conquers hearts . In: Westfalen-Blatt of March 3, 2011.
5. ↑ The success story of Felix the rabbit . In: Hamburger Abendblatt of October 29, 2005, p. 7.
6. ↑ Rheinische Post from July 15, 2006
7. ↑ Annette Langen is committed to reading aloud. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung ( Burscheid edition ) of December 8, 2011.
8. ↑ Annette Langen becomes patron in Coesfeld , In: Rheinische Post from January 19, 2012.
9. ↑ Annette Langen on her new million dollar title. In: www.buchmarkt.de. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .