HA Rey

HA Rey ( September 16, 1898 in Hamburg as Hans August Reyersbach - August 26, 1977 ) was a German-American children's book author and illustrator who, together with his wife Margret Rey, wrote the children's book series Curious George (German: Coco - The Curious Monkey ) and published from 1939 to 1966. The couple are among the most successful and well-known American children's book authors.

Life

Hans August Reyersbach was the son of the businessman Alexander Reyersbach and his wife Marta, née Windmüller. He attended Wilhelm-Gymnasium from 1907 to August 1916 and then actually wanted to study fine arts. After two years of military service in France and Russia, he instead studied philosophy, natural sciences and languages at the University of Munich and the University of Hamburg . Without any artistic training, he designed Adolph Friedländer's posters for the Busch Circus in 1921 as a lithographer and poster artist for the lithography institute . Reprints of this appeared in a special issue of the magazine Das Plakat , which addressed Hamburg. Kurt Enoch's publishing house published lithographs for Christian Morgenstern's "Grotesken" in 1923 in numbered, signed and limited editions. The book included twelve drawings by Reyerbach, some of which had surreal features.

Due to the difficult economic circumstances, Reyersbach emigrated to Brazil in 1924 , where a relative employed him as an accountant in his import and export company. From 1930 he called himself Hans A (ugusto) Rey. In 1935 he got a visit from Margret Rey , with whom he founded an advertising agency. Both married in August of the same year and went on a honeymoon in 1936 to England, Germany and Paris, where they lived until 1940. In 1937 and 1938 Rey's first books were published by Chatto & Windus .

Shortly before German troops reached the French capital, the Rey couple fled on bicycles and left Europe via Spain and Portugal on to the USA via Brazil. They arrived in New York in October 1940 . During the escape, Rey was able to keep a manuscript of the Curios George, which appeared in millions of copies for years from 1941 and was made into a film.

Web links

Literature by and about HA Rey in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Wilfried Weinke: Rey, HA In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Ed.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 263 .
↑ Wilfried Weinke: Rey, HA In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Ed.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 263 .
↑ Wilfried Weinke: Rey, HA In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Ed.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 263-264 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rey, HA
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rey, Hans Augusto; Reyersbach, Hans (former name); Reyersbach, Hans August (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American children's author and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	August 26, 1977

[1] Wilfried Weinke: Rey, HA In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Ed.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 263 .

[2] Wilfried Weinke: Rey, HA In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Ed.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 263 .

[3] Wilfried Weinke: Rey, HA In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Ed.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 263-264 .