Hello, Mister God, this is Anna

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Hello, Mister Gott, this is Anna speaking is the German title of a book that was published in 1974 as Mister God, This Is Anna . The unknown author of the bestseller , which is now classified as children's and youth literature, hid behind the pseudonym "Fynn".

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The London 's East End in the 1930s, during the Great Depression : the 19-year-old writer Fynn runs into a 5-year-old girl named Anna, that's ran away from home because it was probably hit by someone. Fynn takes Anna in and a deep friendship develops over the next "about three and a half years". Anna is characterized by the fact that, despite her childish age, she can express complex, often theological and philosophical contexts in simple words; she firmly believes in "Mister God". Anna dies shortly before her eighth birthday by falling from a tree onto a fence.

The story only roughly follows a chronological plot. Rather, many of Anna's findings are treated in episodes.

continuation

In 1987 a sequel appeared under the title Anna's Book . This contains Anna's left notes and letters, which were edited by Fynn. In 1990 the third and final "Anna" book, Anna and the Black Knight, was published . It is about Thomas Fox, Fynns and later Anna's math teachers.

stage

The Theater in Medias res has the only author-approved stage version of the novel in the world. To date, the author has strictly refused to bring the novel to the stage for reasons of authenticity.

Fynn

According to an English website, the author behind the pseudonym "Fynn" is said to have been the Englishman Sydney George Hopkins (1919–1999).

Book editions

  • Mister God, This Is Anna . Collins , London 1974; Ballantine, New York 2000, ISBN 0-345-44155-9
  • Anna's Book . Collins, London 1987; New edition 1995, ISBN 0006278930
    • Anna is writing to Mister Gott. News from Anna about God and the course of the world . Scherz, Bern 1987, ISBN 3-502-10246-5
      • Paperback edition: Heyne, Munich 1990; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-80688-7
  • Anna and the Black Knight . Collins, London 1990; New edition 2005, ISBN 0007203004 (together with Anna's Book )
    • Anna, Mister God and the unbelieving Thomas. How Anna found a place in heaven for an old doubter . Scherz, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-502-10244-9

Web links

Wikiquote: Fynn  - Quotes

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