Max Kruse (Author)

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Max Kruse (born November 19, 1921 in Kösen ; † September 4, 2015 in Penzberg ) was a German writer and children's book author .

Life

Max Kruse was born in 1921 as the youngest son of seven children of the sculptor Max Kruse and the doll artist Käthe Kruse . He briefly attended the Odenwald School in Ober-Hambach , but was exempt from regular school lessons for a long time due to illness and later from military service for the same reason.

After graduating from high school in Weimar, he briefly studied philosophy and business administration at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena until it closed during the war. After the Second World War, he rebuilt the maternal company Käthe-Kruse-Puppen , which had been expropriated in the GDR , in the Federal Republic of Germany . He then worked as a copywriter and later as a freelance writer. Max Kruse married Mechthild Heilner immediately after the war. In 1952 a son was born who had a fatal accident on a bicycle in April 1968. In 1954 a daughter was born. Kruse was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

In addition to the children's book series about Urmel and Der Löwe ist los , he wrote many more, including The Morning Star , Don Blech , In the wide Land of Time and Lord Butterfly Shirt , novels for young people, poems and a large number of travel reports. Kruse was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation . The book Answers from the Future , published in 2008, is a work critical of religion . The book is a new edition of the book En (t) dzauberung published in 2007 under the pseudonym Friedhelm Schenitz. Autumn of the religious age .

Several of his books were filmed by the Augsburger Puppenkiste , such as his lion and Urmels series. Manfred Jenning wrote the scripts for it .

In 2013 he left his Urmel to the Giordano Bruno Foundation for the project “Evokids - Evolution in Elementary School” and designed a Urmel book on the subject of evolution entitled “Urmel rushes through time”.

Kruse lived in Untermaxkron, a district of Penzberg in Upper Bavaria , since 1986 . He was married to Shaofang Kruse for the third time.

Penzberg held the Max Kruse Days in his honor every year and announced the Penzberger Urmel Prize .

Max Kruse died on September 4, 2015 at the age of 93 in his home town.

Awards

Works

  • The lion is on the loose , 1952
  • Cockatoo in distress , Düsseldorf 1958
  • Sultan in trouble , Düsseldorf 1959
  • The Stranger Bill , in cursive, Ensslin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1963
  • Ulli under an umbrella , Hoch-Verlag Düsseldorf, 1964
  • Der Löwe ist los - children's book series in five volumes, published by Hoch-Verlag Düsseldorf and as a paperback edition
    • The lion is on the loose , 1965
    • A lion comes flying , 1966
    • Well roared lion! , 1967
    • Leo Well All Well , 1969
    • The fat lion comes last , 1970
  • Quiet island wanted - Roman, Engelhorn, 1965 (+ TB)
  • Windkinder , Children's Poems , Ensslin, 1968
  • Der kleine Mensch bei den 5 Mächtigen , Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1968 [Revised new edition under the title Kerlchens Wundersame Reise , 2001]
  • Urmel aus dem Eis - children's book series in initially 9 volumes with illustrations by Erich Hölle, Ensslin & Laiblin, Reutlingen, published from 1969 (+ TB, dtv 1979)
    • Urmel from the ice
    • Urmel flies into space , new edition as dtv paperback, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-423-07278-4
    • Urmel dives into the sea
    • Urmel is playing in the castle
    • Urmel moves to the pole
    • Urmel in the volcano
    • Urmel's great dream
    • Urmel's great flight
    • Urmel becomes a star
  • Continuation of the series by Thienemann-Verlag from 1999, with illustrations by Roman Lang and Günther Jakobs
    • Urmel's tree of lights in the Arctic Ocean , Stuttgart 1999
    • Urmel drives a balloon , Stuttgart 2000
    • Urmel rushes through time , with the assistance of Michael Schmidt-Salomon , Stuttgart 2013
  • König Knirps - children's book, Thienemann-Verlag 1970 (edited and abbreviated as a tailor's book under the title "The funniest king in the world", Stuttgart 1979)
  • Goldesel AG - Roman, Stahlberg, 1971 (+ TB)
  • Don Blech - offshoot of the "Lion" series in 3 volumes with illustrations by Horst Lemke, published by Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf
  • Great fun in the small zoo , Loewes-Verlag 1973
  • Lord Butterfly Shirt - children's book series in 3 volumes with illustrations by Erich Hölle, published by Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf
    • Lord Butterfly Shirt - Visit from the Beyond , Düsseldorf 1974 (+ TB, Ravensburger 1979)
    • Lord Butterfly Shirt - The Deadly Colt , Düsseldorf 1975 (+ TB, Ravensburger 1979)
    • Lord Butterfly Shirt - The Spirit of the Great Buffalo , Düsseldorf 1976 (+ TB, Ravensburger 1979)
  • Die Schnurfe - children's book series in 2 volumes with illustrations by Erich Hölle, published by Thienemann-Verlag, Stuttgart
    • The string in the golden city , Stuttgart 1975
    • The Schnurfe build a house , Stuttgart 1977
  • Kasper Lari - children's book series in 5 volumes with illustrations by Erich Hölle, published by Loewes-Verlag, Bayreuth, and Franz-Schneider-Verlag, Stuttgart, between 1976 and 1982
    • Kasper Lari's new clothes , with illustrations by Erich Hölle, Loewes-Verlag, Bayreuth 1976
    • Kasper Laris in a tight spot , with illustrations by Erich Hölle, Loewes-Verlag, Bayreuth 1976
    • Kasper Laris Adventure - The Magic Dove , with illustrations by Erich Hölle, Franz Schneider Verlag 1975
    • Kasper Laris Adventure - The Band of Robbers , with illustrations by Erich Hölle, Franz Schneider Verlag 1980
    • Kasper Laris Adventure - The Haunted Castle , with illustrations by Erich Hölle, Franz Schneider Verlag 1981
  • When the rooster doesn't crows - picture book with Amrei Fechner, A. Betz 1979
  • Froki and the treasure of the earth - youth novel, Thienemann-Verlag 1979
  • Why - Little stories about big things , dtv original edition 1980
  • Shaofang's journey - travel report, dtv original edition 1981
  • Light as a feather - Poems, SKV Edition, 1982
  • Caroline - historical adventure series, 5 vols. Franz-Schneider-Verlag, since 1982
  • The Sunken Time - Biography, DVA 1983 (+ TB)
  • Egypt, the gift of the Nile - travel book, Hallwag 1984
  • Der Schattenbruder - youth novel, Ueberreuter 1985 (+ TB) (nominated for the German youth literature award 1985)
  • China. A journey from Beijing to Canton - travel report, Prestel, 1985
  • The knight - youth novel, Ueberreuter, 1988 (+ TB)
  • The Morning Star - Trilogy, Ueberreuter, from 1990 (+ TB)
    • The long journey
    • The island of the knights
    • A pearl coat (Youth Book of the Month March 1993)
  • La Primavera - Roman, Edition Q, 1991 (+ TB 'Der Kronenkranich' Autumn 99)
  • Anna on Horseback - Youth novel, Franz Schneider Verlag, 1992 (+ TB)
  • The Protected Time - Biography, DVA, 1993
  • Hazard the minstrel - historical novel, Salzer, 1995 (+ TB)
  • The chosen one. Animurs Geschichte - Jugendroman, Gabriel, 1995 (+ TB) (German + Austrian youth jury: among the 5 or 10 best books)
  • The transformed time - biography, Wohlfarth, 1996
  • In the vast land of the old days - From the Big Bang to Galileo, C. Bertelsmann, 1997
  • In the vast land of the new time - From Galileo to today, C. Bertelsmann, 1998 (Youth Book of the Month December 1998)
  • In the vast land of time (new)
    • World in the making
    • World of belief
    • World on the move
    • To new worlds
    • Audiobook with Peter Fricke 2007 / Production HR
  • The small circle - picture book with Ivan Gantschev, Patmos, 1998
  • Lord Butterfly Shirt - Spook in the Wild West , Complete Edition, Thienemann-Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-522-17415-1
  • Kerlchens miraculous journey , children's book, Thienemann-Verlag 2001 ISBN 3-522-17366-X
  • I am a bird from Samarkand - poems, Verlag St. Michaelsbund
  • A blob went for a walk - children's poems, Verlag St. Michaelsbund
  • Early Spring , Roman, List 2006
  • 1000 boots - musical fairy tale with Franz-David Baumann and Doris Eisenburger
  • The big story book , with Doris Eisenburger 2009
  • Answers from the future . Angelika-Lenz-Verlag, (revised new edition of the book En (t) dzauberung , published under the pseudonym Friedhelm Schenitz. Autumn of the Religious Age )
  • God or not God, that is the question here - reflections, Angelika-Lenz-Verlag
  • Broom, broom, that's it. A history of the Enlightenment , Angelika-Lenz-Verlag 2010
  • The days with Jantien. The story of a love - Roman, Thiele-Verlag 2010
  • The Froki saga , new version of Froki and the earth's treasure , Angelika-Lenz-Verlag 2010
  • In the course of time - how I became what I am . Biography, Thienemann Verlag, 2011
  • Me and you and Müller's cow , stories and poems, Boje-Verlag, 2011
  • The silver unicorn - a story of wishing , Thiele-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-85179-156-3
  • My heart begins to float - poems, Thiele-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-85179-243-0

Broadcasts and travel reports on Bayerischer Rundfunk; TV films with the Augsburger Puppenkiste , radio plays for children and adults; Plays, also for children, including:

  • “The night of the shining slippers”, Linz 1976
  • “Les Chants d'Avignon”, (performance in front of the Papal Palace in Avignon, 1988); Choral work with music by Holger Jung in Penzberg 2006
  • Musical "The Bridge of the Future" by Hans-Georg Wolos based on "Froki and the Treasure of the Earth", (world premiere in Neumünster October 1995)
  • “I don't want to be a lady”, musical with Hans Posegga and Holger Jung, world premiere in Johannesburg, German premiere in Penzberg 2002
  • Urmel, animated series on ARD 1996/97
  • Urmel aus dem Eis, animated film by Reinhard Klooss, 2006
  • Urmel in full swing, animated film by Reinhard Klooss, 2008

Lots of videos and audio cassettes - translations into Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Catalan, Korean, Polish, Russian, Swedish.

Editor of audio books

  • Dream play about Papa Luna - radio play, BR 1979, HR 2001, with Dieter Borsche
  • Light as a feather and Windkinder , poems and stories, CD-Patmos 1998, (speaker: Otto Sander)
  • Urmel aus dem Eis , 5 audio books, spoken by Dirk Bach, Patmos from 2002
  • A school bag full of stories . Read by Dirk Bach , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89813-957-1 (reading, 2 CDs, 158 min.)

Autobiographies

  • Max Kruse: The sunken time. Pictures of a childhood in the Käthe-Kruse-Haus . Knaur 1991, ISBN 978-3-426-02348-8 .
  • Max Kruse: The sheltered time. A youth in the Käthe-Kruse-Haus . Books on Demand 2000. ISBN 978-3-89811-717-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Documentary film "Puppenkinder" by Gabriele Dinsenbacher , 1998
  2. ↑ Patricia Block: An agnostic dyed in the wool . Humanist Press Service, November 17, 2006, accessed September 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Wieland Freund: Urmel inventor Max Kruse is dead: Goodbye, soul fan . Die Welt , September 7, 2015.
  4. ^ "Urmel is a contribution to the Enlightenment", interview with Der Welt
  5. ↑ "Obituary for our supporter Max Kruse, who not only gave the world the Urmel" on http://evokids.de
  6. ^ Homepage of Max Kruse
    patron Max Kruse . ( Memento of August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Penzberg community, 2003, accessed on September 9, 2015.
    Sabine Reithmaier: Urmel creator Max Kruse is 90: loner with great imagination . Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 18, 2011.
    Martin Mölder: Urmel's father turns 90 - Max Kruse: “In the course of time” . Deutschlandfunk , November 19, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b Urmel father Max Kruse turns 90 . Münchner Merkur , November 18, 2011, accessed on September 9, 2015.
  8. ↑ Cornelia Geißler: Urmel creator Max Kruse is dead . Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , September 7, 2015, accessed on September 7, 2015.
  9. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Kosen
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2015
Place of death Penzberg