Josephine Siebe

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Josephine Siebe

Josephine Siebe (born November 10, 1870 in Leipzig ; † July 26, 1941 there ) was a German editor and children's book author. Between 1900 and 1940 she wrote almost 70 books for children and adolescent girls, as well as a large number of articles in annual and edited volumes.

life and work

For several years Josephine Siebe worked as editor of the women's supplement of the Leipziger Tageblatt and the women's section of Reclam's Universum . It was initially successful with collections of children's stories that were set in the village or in the small town. However, she became best known for her series of seven Punch and Judy books, which were written between 1921 and 1930 and were reissued over and over again until the early 1990s. A number of her books have recently appeared again, mostly as eBooks. The Kasperle series reports on the adventures of a lively Kasperle. Unlike Pinocchio, a wooden doll come to life, Josephine Siebe's puppet comes from a puppet island in a distant world, to which it returns at the end of the fifth volume. The motif of the toy that comes to life at times also gives Siebe's stories about dolls and bears a special charm and helped them to be successful.

Some of Josephine Siebe's books have also been translated into other languages; editions in Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, American, Polish, Swedish and Finnish are known. Her books were adorned by some of the best-known youth book illustrators of the time: Ernst Kutzer , Fritz Bergen, Willy Planck, Joseph Mauder, Carl Schmauk, Prof. Hermann Stockmann , Prof. Wilhelm Claudius, Prof. Ernst Liebermann, Fritz Baumgarten and others.

Works

The five treasure hunters
Village and small town stories
  • Boys and girls stories from Oberheudorf (1908)
  • New children's stories from Oberheudorf (1912)
  • The Oberheudorfer in the City (1914)
  • Three from Oberheudorf (1932)
  • Rose, Linde and Silver Star (1917)
  • The Star Boys in the Big City (1918)
  • Holiday guests in the Silver Star (1920)
  • Small Town Children (1910) {later title: The Five Treasure Graves (1937)}
  • Master Schnupphase and his friends (1915)
  • The Schelme von Steinach (1916)
  • Dudelein's Garden and Schippel's Children (1919)
  • Around the Rabenburg (1919) {later title: Die Schloßkinder auf Rabenburg (1927)}
  • In the intimate angle (1922)
  • The new home (1924)
  • Friedel and the four sparrows (1930)
  • The Exiled Princesses (1930)
  • The Five Treasure Diggers (1937)
  • Fritz Immerfroh (1938)
  • Maxel's seven journeys into the wide world (1939)
Animal and toy stories
  • In the rabbit wonderland (1910)
  • Joli (1913) {later title: Bimbo (1937)}
  • The {funny} dolls book (1929)
  • Lump and Rascal (1934)
  • The Teddy Book (1924)
  • Six Bear Brothers (1927)
Punch and Judy Books
  • Kasperle on the move (1921)
  • Punch and Judy at Himmelhoch Castle (1922)
  • Kasperl's Adventures in the City (1923)
  • Kasperle's Swiss Journey (1925)
  • Kasperle in Kasperland (1926)
  • Kasperle is back (1928)
  • Kasperle's Games and Pranks (1930)
Girls books
  • The King's Cup (1916)
  • The Golden Bridge (1918)
  • The nieces of the Lord of Trentlin (1919)
  • When the stagecoach was still driving (1921)
  • Am Höhenweg (1921) [later title: Ellen and the funny Ursel (1932)]
  • In the intimate angle (1922)
  • In the bright valley (1923)
  • Lene Kellermann (1925)
  • Die Dietrichskinder and other stories (1926)
  • Love Fire (1926)
  • Anna Sabine and her sisters (1929)
  • The Weather Witch (1929)
  • Merry Girls and Her Comrades (1930)
  • The house in the woods (1931)
  • Funny Holiday Stories (1933)
Historical novels
  • German Youth in Difficult Times (1904)
  • Home Seeker (1911)
  • The Book of Fame (1913)
  • The Steinbergs (1913) [later title: Die Junge von Steinberg (1933)]
  • German heart in a welschen [foreign] dress (1915)
  • Mr. de Charreard's German children (1922) [later title: Heimat im silent Tal (1934)]
  • Little Mamsell Pfefferkraut (1923)

Web links

Wikisource: Josephine Siebe  - Sources and full texts
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personal data
SURNAME Sieve, Josephine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1941
Place of death Leipzig