Lemony Snicket

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Lemony Snicket is a pseudonym of the American writer Daniel Handler . He published since 1999 under this name numerous children's books, including 13 volumes A Series of Unfortunate Events (original. "A Series of Unfortunate Events"). They are about the three orphans Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, whose parents died in a fire. Since then they have been pursued by their relative Count Olaf ("Count Olaf"), who wants to get the children's great inheritance. The first volume in the series - The Bad Beginning - was released in 1999 and the 13th and last - The End - in 2006.

First-person narrator

Lemony's signature

Handler gives the narrator Snicket a personality of his own, he is described in the books, details are told about him and a biography has even been published called Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography .

Once per book, Snicket gives the reader an insight into his life. We know he is

  • has a late love named Beatrice whom he was not allowed to marry and to whom every book in the series is dedicated.
  • Plays accordion.
  • wrote the 2nd volume of the gruesome story on the deck of his friend Bela's yacht.
  • Was chased 16 miles by an angry mob.
  • attended a masked ball to deliver a message to his beloved Beatrice.
  • once had a sword fight with a man who fixes televisions.
  • and his family lived in a large villa.
  • has (te) two siblings: Jacques and Kit Snicket.
  • was held captive in a castle by his enemies and was able to get free by printing business cards pretending to be an admiral in the French Navy.
  • was once stuck with his chauffeur on an island surrounded by man-eating crocodiles.
  • wrote the third volume in a room with a window overlooking a cemetery.
  • wrote the 8th volume behind the altar of the cathedral on the alleged virgin while a friend played a sonata on the organ to calm him down and so that visitors in the pews would not hear the noises of the typewriter.

Works

English originals

  1. The Bad Beginning
  2. The Reptile Room
  3. The Wide Window
  4. The Miserable Mill
  5. The Austere Academy
  6. The replacement elevator
  7. The Vile Village
  8. The Hostile Hospital
  9. The Carnivorous Carnival
  10. The Slippery Slope
  11. The Grim Grotto
  12. The Penultimate Peril
  13. the end

A series of unfortunate events - German translations - books and audio books

  1. The Terrible Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Volume 1), Klaus Weimann (Translator) - Audiobook: Stefan Kurt (Narrator)
  2. The House of Snakes (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Volume 2), Birgitt Kollmann (translator) - audio book: Stefan Kurt (speaker)
  3. Der Seufzersee (A series of unfortunate events, Volume 3), Klaus Weimann (translator) - audio book: Stefan Kurt (speaker)
  4. The Unheimliche Mühle (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Volume 4)), Birgitt Kollmann (Translator) - Audiobook: Rufus Beck (Speaker)
  5. Die Schule des Schreckens (A series of sad events, Volume 5), Klaus Weimann (translator) 2005 - audio book: Rufus Beck (speaker)
  6. Die dunkle Allee (A series of unfortunate events, Volume 6), Birgitt Kollmann (translator) 2005 - audio book: Rufus Beck (speaker)
  7. The gloomy village (A series of unfortunate events, Volume 7), Klaus Weimann (translator) 2005 - audio book: Rufus Beck (speaker)
  8. Das schauige Spital (A series of sad events, Volume 8), Klaus Weimann (translator) 2005 - audio book: Rufus Beck (speaker)
  9. The gruesome fair (A series of sad events, Volume 9), Klaus Weimann (translator) 2005 - audio book: Rufus Beck (speaker)
  10. Der sinstere Fels (A series of unfortunate events, Volume 10) Klaus Weimann (translator) - audio book: Rufus Beck (speaker)
  11. Die grimmige Grotte (A series of sad events, Volume 11), Klaus Weimann (translator) - audio book: Rufus Beck (speaker)
  12. The Hair-raising Hotel (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Volume 12), Sabine Roth (Translator) - Audiobook: Rufus Beck (Speaker)
  13. The Amazing End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Volume 13), Sabine Roth (Translator) - Audiobook: Rufus Beck (Narrator)
  • Book series: All the Wrong Questions, 4 volumes, published between 2012 and 2015. (German: My enigmatic apprenticeship years, published between 2013 and 2016).
    • Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions: Question 1), 2012
      • The curse of the wrong question: My puzzling apprenticeship years 1 , translation by Sabine Roth, Goldmann Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-31274-0 .
  • When Did You See Her Last? (All the Wrong Questions: Question 2), 2013
  • The missing girl: My puzzling apprenticeship years 2 , translation by Sabine Roth, Goldmann Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-31275-7
  • Shouldn't you be in school? (All the Wrong Questions: Question 3), 2014
  • Fire alarm !: My enigmatic apprenticeship years 3 , translation by Sabine Roth, Goldmann Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-31276-4
  • Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (All the Wrong Questions: Question 4), 2015
  • The singing statue: My puzzling years of apprenticeship 4 , translation by Sabine Roth, Goldmann Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-31277-1
  • The Dark , 2013
  • Dark . Illustrations by Jon Klassen. Thomas Bodmer (translator), NordSüd Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978-3-314-10211-0

Filmography

Screenwriter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A detective of 13 years. In: FAZ . January 11, 2014, p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Snicket, Lemony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Handler, Daniel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century