Misha Damjan

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Mischa Damjan (born November 4, 1914 in Skopje , Kingdom of Serbia ; died November 29, 1998 ) was a Yugoslav-Swiss children's book author and publisher of NordSüd Verlag in Switzerland under his real name Dimitrije Sidjanski .

Life

Dimitrije Sidjanski grew up in Belgrade , studied there and at the Sorbonne in Paris jurisprudence and was in Yugoslavia as a lawyer working. After the German invasion of Yugoslavia , he was taken prisoner by Germany in 1942 , from which he was able to flee to Switzerland shortly before the end of the war . There he began writing his first short stories and novels . In 1949 he met his wife Brigitte (* 1931), with whom he first emigrated to the USA , had five children and in 1961 founded the Nord-Süd-Verlag in Gossau in the canton of Zurich . The publisher's first book was his children's book The Clown Said No, with illustrations by the Swiss glass painter Gian Casty, which he exhibited as the only book from his publisher at the Frankfurt Book Fair and was a success. In 1979 Sidjanski withdrew from the publishing house in order to devote himself entirely to writing as Mischa Damjan. The publishing business was taken over by the son Davy Sidjanski , while his wife remained the chief editor.

Damjan wrote more than twenty books for children and adults and has mainly created picture book texts and stories in which he placed environmental experiences, animals, fantastic and fairy tales. He had formed his pseudonym from the first names of his first sons.

Works (selection)

  • The Oath , Zurich 1949 (under the name Dimitrije Sidjanski)
  • Pony, the seahorse , Einsiedeln [u. a.] 1957
  • We want 2 legs , Zurich 1958
  • Mau, the Katzenkönig , Zurich 1961 (together with Werner Büchi )
  • Pony the big toddler , Zurich 1961
  • The clown said no , Mönchaltorf / Zurich 1962 (together with Gian Casty )
  • Francesco and his donkey , Mönchaltorf 1962
  • Whistle, marmot, whistle , Mönchaltorf 1963
  • The squirrel and the rhinoceros , Mönchaltorf: NordSüd, 1964 (together with Ralph Steadman )
  • Atuk , Mönchaltorf 1965 (together with Gian Casty).
  • The false flamingos , Mönchaltorf 1967 (together with Ralph Steadman )
  • The little prince and his cat , Mönchaltdorf 1967 (together with Ralph Steadman )
  • Filipo and his miracle brush , Mönchaltorf 1968 (together with Janosch )
  • Iwan and the Witch , Mönchaltorf ZH 1968 (together with Toma Bogdanovic)
  • The wolf and the kid , Mönchaltorf 1968 (together with Max Velthuijs )
  • Mau mao miau , Mönchaltorf 1969
  • Two cats in America , Mönchaltorf 1970 (together with Ralph Steadman )
  • The green man 737 , Mönchaltorf 1971 (together with Maurice Kenelski)
  • Springs, nothing but springs , Mönchaltdorf 1976 (together with Susi Bohdal)
  • The mouse who believed in the good , Mönchaltdorf [u. a.] 1979 (together with Yvonne Rothmayr)
  • Farewell, little bird , Mönchaltdorf [u. a.] 1983 (together with Dorothée Duntze)
  • The red poppy from Monte Cassino , Mönchaltdorf / Switzerland 1983 (together with Tony Vinzens)
  • The call of the silver bird , Stuttgart 1985 (together with Frank Ruprecht)
  • December and his friends , Ravensburg: Otto Mayer, 1986 (together with Dušan Kállay )
  • The Christmas Pearl , Gossau, Zurich 2001 (together with Alexander Reichstein)
  • Atuk . Illustrations by Józef Wilkoń . Zurich: NordSüd, 2008 ( Dedicated to my son Davy Ugljesa. )

Translations

literature

  • Christine Kretschmer: Picture books in primary school . Braunschweig: Westermann, 2009 ISBN 978-3-14-162124-2 , pp. 97-101 (December and his friends)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Literature by and about Brigitte Sidjanski in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Interview by Susanna Wengeler with Brigitte Sidjanski at buchmarkt.de, October 13, 2005
  3. ↑ Reference to the pseudonym at abebooks
personal data
SURNAME Damjan, Misha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sidjanski, Dimitrije; Sidjanski-Hanhart, Dimitrije (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-Swiss children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Skopje
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1998