Eva Ibbotson

Eva Ibbotson (born January 25, 1925 as Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner in Vienna , † October 20, 2010 in Newcastle upon Tyne , England) was a British writer .

Life

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 as the daughter of the physiologist Berthold P. Wiesner and the writer Anna Gmeyner . After the parents separated in 1928, the mother (eventually remarried to a Russian ) lived in Berlin , Vienna and Paris (in exile from 1933 ; from 1934/35 in Great Britain ); The father of Jewish origin initially stayed in Vienna, but then emigrated to Edinburgh and London before 1933 . The daughter first grew up in a church children's home in Vienna and emigrated to her father in Scotland in 1933 . There she attended Bedford College. Most recently she lived in Newcastle.

She first studied physiology at the University of Cambridge in 1946/47 . She also earned a Masters in Education from Durham University in 1965 , after starting a teaching career in the 1960s. She married her colleague Alan Ibbotson, with whom she had three sons and a daughter. Alan Ibbotson died in the 1990s. When her youngest son started school, Eva Ibbotson wrote her first children's book. First, however, she had started with short stories for women's magazines , which was easy to manage alongside the household.

In her book The Secret of Platform 13 , published in 1994, she invented the secret platform in London's Kings Cross Station, which Joanne K. Rowling took up in her Harry Potter novels.

Works

Eva Ibbotson's books have been translated into over 80 languages.

Children's and young people's literature

• Hecky Hexe , Erika Klopp Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-7817-0859-4
• Dial-a-Ghost , MacMillen Children's Books, 1996, ISBN 978-0-333-65633-4
• The secret of platform 13 . Translated by Sabine Ludwig , with illustrations by Sabine Wilharm . Dressler Verlag, 1999. ISBN 978-3-7915-1006-4 ( The Secret of Platform 13 , 1994)
• A haunted castle emigrates . Translated by Regine Adolphsen, Erika Klopp Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-7817-0860-0 ; or The Secret of the Wandering Castle . Translated by Sabine Ludwig , with illustrations by Regina Kehn. Dressler Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-423-71312-2 ( The haunting of Hiram or The Haunting of Granite Falls , 2004, or The Haunting of Hiram C. Hopgood , 1987)
• The secret of the seventh witch . With illustrations by Regina Kehn . Dressler Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-7915-1008-8 ( Not just a Witch , 1989)
• The secret of the hidden island . With illustrations by Regina Kehn. Dressler Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-7915-1007-1 ( Monster Mission , 1999; Island of the Aunts , 2000)
• Maia or When Miss Minton threw her corset into the Amazon , Dressler Verlag, 2003. ISBN 978-3-7915-1009-5 ( Journey to the River Sea , 2001)
• Annika and the Star of Kazan . With illustrations by Peter Gut . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7915-1011-8 ( The Star of Kazan , 2004)
• The Secret of the Wellbridge Witches . With illustrations by Regina Kehn. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-71259-0 ( Not just a Witch )
• The Secret of the Spirits of Craggyford . With illustrations by Regina Kehn. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-71223-1 , or Rick and his haunted fellows or Aktion Geisterrettung , 1996 ( The Great Ghost Rescue , 1975)
• The secret of the Scottish feet . Translated by Regina Ludwig, with illustrations by Regina Kehn. Dressler Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7915-1012-5 ( The Beasts of Clawstone Castle , 2005)
• The dragonfly lake or how to save a prince . With illustrations by Peter Gut. Dressler Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7915-1014-9 ( The Dragonfly Pool , 2008)
• The Christmas carp. Christmas story . With illustrations by Robert Wyss. Publishing house Die Arche Zürich 1967
• The monster Mommy couldn't tell . Translated by Peter Knecht , with illustrations by Sabine Büchner . Dressler Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7915-1013-2 ( The Worm and the Toffee-Nosed Princess and other Stories of Monsters , 1983)
• The secret of the talking animals . With illustrations by Regina Kehn. Dressler Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7915-1015-6 ( The Ogre of Oglefort , 2010)
• Five dogs in the luggage . Translated by Sabine Ludwig , with illustrations by Sharon Rentta. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-76063-8 ( One Dog and his Boy , 2011)
• Five yetis are looking for a home . Translated by Peter Knecht , with illustrations by Jens Rassmus. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-76082-9 ( The Abominables , 2013)

Novels

• Die Morgengabe , Scherz Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-3-502-10338-7 ( The Morning Gift , 1993)
• Die Vertraute , Scherz Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-502-10339-4 ( Madensky Square , 1988)
• Sommerglanz , Scherz Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-502-10326-4 ( A Countess Below Stairs , 1981)
• A touch of Jasmin , Scherz Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-502-10325-7 ( A Company of Swans 1985)
• The song of a summer , Blanvalet Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-442-35109-1 ( A Song for Summer , 1997)
• Sternenmelodie , Scherz Verlag 1999, ISBN 978-3-502-11341-6 ( Magic Flutes , 1982, or The Reluctant Heiress , 2009)
• Die kleine Komtesse , Blanvalet Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-442-35159-6 , or Vicky and the Christmas Angel , Fischer Schatzinsel Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-18109-4 ( Glove Shop in Vienna and other Stories , 1992)

Awards

• 2001: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea

literature

• Ursula Seeber, Alisa Douer , Edith Blaschitz (eds.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature (English title: Little Allies , translated into English by Karin Hanta), Austrian library in exile. Picus, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85452-276-2 . P. 130f (= library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels eV Frankfurt am Main ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Ibbotson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eva Ibbotson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• “I need a happy ending” Interview with Eva Ibbotson, Deutschlandfunk, February 11, 2006