Kurt Wolfflin

Kurt Wölfflin (actually Kurt Wölflingseder; born February 20, 1934 in Vienna , † September 12, 1998 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian writer .

life and work

Kurt Wölfflin was born in Vienna in 1934, grew up in the Netherlands and Austria and graduated from high school in Salzburg. The secondary school teacher was a member of the Catholic men's movement and the PEN Club Austria. He wrote poems, short stories, plays and novels - as well as many books for children and young people. After the move from Thalgau-Egg ( Land Salzburg ) to Anthering near Salzburg / City in the late 1960s, the first children's books appeared. First in collaboration with his wife Maria, later with the entire family of eight.

additional

The collection of Korean fairy tales “The Pearl of the Dragon King” ( Styria-Verlag , 1973) was created with the collaboration of the Korean missionary Rudi Kranewitter (Soh Ki Ho).

Prices

• 1969 and 1975 Austrian State Prize for Children's and Youth Literature
• 1982 Rauris Promotion Prize
• 1998 Children's and Young People's Book Prize of the State of Styria

bibliography

• Hansl, the treasure hunter, 1967
• The little princess, 1967
• The princess in the rose bush 1968
• The giant at school, 1969
• Animals of the Wild, 1969
• Who catches the ball of wool, 1969
• Miki, 1972
• The Pearl of the Dragon King, 1973
• Hanne and Andy, 1973
• Miki and the pirates, 1973
• Happiness has two faces, 1975
• The big and the small, 1976
• I am me, 1976
• The Little Kinkerlitzchen, 1977
• You have a boyfriend, 1978
• Grandma step on the gas, 1978
• A house in the country, 1979
• Vacation Safari, 1981
• The princess on the snow bird, 1981
• A Thousand for Charlie, 1982
• The Boy in the Tree, 1982
• A white Mercedes, 1983
• I believe in life, 1984
• The boss is the grandma, 1986
• The tower, 1987
• Micha and Black Wolf, 1987
• The giant in the city, 1988
• The Archbishop's Rose, 1989
• The dandelion camel, 1992
• The girl, the fish and the birds, 1999
• The nightingale, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Salzburg Literature Network accessed on February 19, 2013
2. ↑ Maria Wölflingseder: Ten typists in: Streifzüge. Magazined lust for transformation: 10 years of Streifzüge (36/2006, April 1, 2006), accessed on October 17, 2018
3. ↑ World of Women (Periodicals) July / August 1975 pp. 2–6
4. ↑ World of Women (Periodicals) March 1974 p. 39 (information on Soh Ki Ho)

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Wölfflin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Kurt Wölfflin in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )