Arnica Esterl

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Arnica Esterl (born Arnica Mees , also Arnica Esterl-Mees ; * 1933 in The Hague ) is a Dutch - German writer , translator and storyteller .

Life

Arnica Esterl spent her childhood on a West Frisian farm . She completed an apprenticeship as a tailor and later studied German , Frisian and philosophy in Amsterdam and at the University of Tübingen . She has lived permanently in Germany since her marriage to the German Waldorf teacher Dietrich Esterl ; it has been based in Stuttgart since 1964 .

Arnica Esterl has been dealing with fairy tales theoretically and as an oral narrator since the 1970s . She published numerous adaptations of international fairy tales, translated children's books , mainly from Dutch , and worked for radio in the 1990s . Esterl has been a member of the European Fairy Tale Society since 1976 and was one of the founders of the Stuttgart Fairy Tale Circle in 1979 , of which she was chairman from 1989 to 1997.

Works

  • The flying ship , Stuttgart 1990
  • The pike said it! , Vienna 1990
  • Rumpelstiltskin , Vienna 1990
  • The fairy tale of the beautiful round cake , Vienna 1991
  • Jon & the glass mountain , Esslingen 1992
  • The dragon feathers , Vienna 1993
  • The man from sugar , Vienna 1993
  • The swan children , Vienna 1993
  • The water of the wild goose , Vienna 1993
  • Okino and the Whales , Vienna 1994
  • Luka and the white dove , Esslingen 1995
  • Puss in Boots , Esslingen 1996
  • The fairy tale woman , Esslingen [u. a.] 1996
  • Rapunzel , Esslingen 1996
  • The knight in the fairy kingdom , Esslingen 1996
  • From the Machandel boom , Stuttgart 1996
  • Gilgamesh of Uruk , Esslingen [u. a.] 1998
  • The Pied Piper of Hameln , Esslingen [u. a.] 1999 (together with László Bátki)
  • The brave little tailor , Esslingen [u. a.] 1999
  • Children need fairy tales , Stuttgart 2000
  • Zwick and Zwockel in summer , Stuttgart 2000 (together with Lidwien van Geffen)
  • Zwick and Zwockel in winter , Stuttgart 2000 (together with Lidwien van Geffen)
  • The Leader of Fairy Tales , Stuttgart 2002
  • The most beautiful fairy tales from 1001 nights , Esslingen 2006
  • The most beautiful fairy tales from all over the world , Esslingen 2010
  • My magical fairy tale treasure , Esslingen 2012
  • Once upon a time ... , Esslingen 2013

Editing

  • Grimm's fairy tale , Vienna
    • 2 (1990)
  • Animals and animals in fairy tales , Regensburg 1991 (published together with Wilhelm Solms )
  • The Castle of the Golden Sun , Stuttgart 1997

Translations

  • Victor Ambrus : One, two, three, four ... nine pairs of shoes ?! , Stuttgart 1998
  • Hans Christian Andersen : Andersen's fairy tales , Esslingen 1994
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Thumbelina , Esslingen 2005
  • Hans Christian Andersen: The Emperor's New Clothes , Esslingen 2004
  • Hans Christian Andersen: The little mermaid , Esslingen [u. a.] 2002
  • Hans Christian Andersen: The girl with the sulfur sticks , Vienna 1994
  • Hans Christian Andersen: The Snow Queen , Vienna 1988
  • Hans Christian Andersen: The Swineherd , Esslingen 2004
  • Hans Christian Andersen: The steadfast tin soldier , Vienna 1990
  • Hans Christian Andersen: The Christmas tree , Esslingen [u. a.] 1998
  • Hans Christian Andersen: The Wild Swans , Esslingen 2007
  • Elsa Beskow : Das Blumenfest , Stuttgart 2006 (translated together with Diethild Plattner)
  • Elsa Beskow: Lasse im Blaubeerland , Stuttgart 2008 (translated together with Diethild Plattner)
  • Elsa Beskow: Schabernack im Wichtelwald , Stuttgart 2006 (translated together with Diethild Plattner)
  • Elsa Beskow: Die Wichtelkinder , Stuttgart 2003
  • Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland , Esslingen 2012
  • Michael Dudok de Wit : Father and Daughter , Stuttgart 2003
  • Michael Dudok de Wit: Four beavers in the night , Stuttgart 2004
  • Petr P. Eršov : The humpback horse , Vienna 1987
  • Annemarie van Haeringen : The boy who cut his bread with scissors , Stuttgart 2009
  • Admar Kwant : Wichtel Nick , Stuttgart 2010
  • Esmé Lammers : Long live the queen! , Stuttgart 1998 (translated together with Beate Esterl)
  • Martina Müller : Pinto and the giant , Stuttgart 1998
  • Daan Remmerts de Vries : Traumkaninchen , Stuttgart 2009
  • Harmen van Straaten : Ente für dich , Stuttgart 2008
  • Harmen van Straaten: Duck learns to do magic , Stuttgart 2006
  • Harmen van Straaten: Once upon a time there was a duck , Stuttgart 2004
  • Harmen van Straaten: Competition with duck , Stuttgart 2005
  • Lev N. Tolstoj : The Three Bears , Vienna 1988
  • Lev N. Tolstoj: The servant Jemeljan and the empty drum , Vienna 1989
  • Lev N. Tolstoj: How the farmer divided the geese and other stories , Vienna 1990
  • Pirkko Vainio : The Enchanted Tree , Graz 1995
  • Jules Verne : Around the World in 80 Days , Esslingen 2013
  • A. Weissenberg-Seebohm : With Kasperle through the year , Stuttgart 1983
  • A. Weissenberg-Seebohm: We play puppet theater , Stuttgart 1982
  • Frederik Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven : Rudolf Steiner , Stuttgart 1961
  • Frederik Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven: The Reality We Live In , Arlesheim (Switzerland) 1959

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personal data
SURNAME Esterl, Arnica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esterl-Mees, Arnica (full name); Mees, Arnica (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-German writer, translator and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague