Otfried Preussler

Otfried Preußler (born October 20, 1923 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia as Otfried Syrowatka; † February 18, 2013 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a German children's book author . His best known works are The Little Aquarius , The Robber Hotzenplotz , Krabat , The Little Ghost and The Little Witch . The entire work of 32 books has been translated into 55 languages ​​and has a total circulation of 50 million copies.

Life

Youth and school days

Otfried Preussler's parents were teachers. His mother was Erna Syrowatka, née Tscherwenka (Czervenka); his father, Josef Syrowatka , who in 1941 changed the family's surname - based on ancestors named Preißler - to Preußler, was also a local historian and folklorist. Otfried Preußler brought much of his storytelling material with him from his Bohemian homeland. He learned a large part of the stories from his grandmother Dora, who knew many folk tales. Preussler described his grandmother's story book as one that did not exist at all and yet was the most important of his life. His father, with whom he was often out and about as a little boy and who collected the legends of the Bohemian part of the Jizera Mountains , also supported Preussler's inclination.

Preußler attended the Rudolph School in Reichenberg. His favorite subjects were German and all foreign languages. His career aspiration was to become a professor of German national history at Charles University in Prague .

Military service and imprisonment

Immediately after graduating from high school in 1942, which he passed with distinction, Preussler was drafted into military service in World War II. He survived the deployment on the Eastern Front and, as a 21-year-old officer, was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944 . He spent the next five years in various prison camps in the Tatar Republic , including in Jelabuga . He suffered from typhus , malaria and typhus and lost weight to 40 kilograms.

After his release from captivity in June 1949, he found his displaced relatives and his fiancée Annelie's child from Reichenberg in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria . He married her that same year. The couple had three daughters.

Study and work as a teacher

Preussler decided to become a teacher. During his studies he also earned money as a local reporter and as a story writer for children's radio. From 1953 to 1970 Preußler worked first as a primary school teacher, then as rector at the Otfried Preußler School in Stephanskirchen , which was later named after him . Sometimes he had 52 children to deal with. Here his narrative and drawing talent was of benefit to the children; It was not uncommon for him to tell his restless students stories which he later wrote down and published.

Writer career

It was not until 2015, posthumously, that literary historian Peter Becher and Germanist Murray G. Hall made it public via ORF that Preußler had already written Geyer harvest camp between 1940 and 1942 , a book for young people in the style of the HJ ideology, published in 1943 or 1944 published by Junge Generation, Berlin. The story revolves around a group of Pimpfe who are assigned to work on farms in the Sudetenland . The novel was banned in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war . The book has not been mentioned by any biographer, Preussler had given no reference to it. Hall suspects that the author was later embarrassed about the youth work.

At first Preussler only worked part-time as a writer. Later the first children's books and some translations were added. In 1956 his “first well-known” book Der kleine Wassermann was published , for which he received the special prize for text and illustration of the German Youth Book Prize the following year. He wrote a total of 32 books for children and young people. His books have a total German-language circulation of over 15.2 million copies and are available in 55 languages ​​in around 275 translations.

Preußler last lived as a freelance writer in Prien am Chiemsee , previously in Haidholzen near Rosenheim. His daughter Regine Stigloher worked as an editor and, together with her father, has published three sequels to Little Aquarius (with the subtitles Spring in the Mühlenweiher , Summer Festival in the Mühlenweiher and Autumn in the Mühlenweiher ).

Preussler generously supported the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge for decades . He did this "in memory of all his comrades in the war, whom he had died in the fighting and in his five-year Soviet captivity".

From 1993 Preussler was chairman of the non-profit association, which he co-founded, for the Aschau children's orthopedic clinic .

Commemorations and honors

Preussler's literary estate and his correspondence are in the Berlin State Library . In autumn 2013, she put together an exhibition in her foyer. The day of the solemn handover of the estate (113 moving boxes) by the daughter Susanne Preußler-Bitsch is now to be celebrated annually as “Otfried Preussler Day”, since “the Prussian cultural property was added to the Prussian cultural property”. Letters from Preußler to the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren and her private archive have been donated to the Royal Library in Stockholm .

Also in 2013, the Otfried Preußler Children's Piece Prize was announced and awarded once . The award was endowed with 10,000 euros and was donated by the Preussler family and Thienemann Verlag in honor of the writer's 90th birthday. The jury selected the piece "Ramayana" by Karen Köhler from 141 entries .

In 2013 the State Gymnasium Pullach was renamed “Otfried-Preußler-Gymnasium Pullach”; some people criticized it because of the course of the naming process and the fact that Preussler had no connection with Pullach (the youth book from 1943/44 was still unknown at the time). In 2015 the “Otfried Preußler School” was opened in Bad Soden am Taunus .

Awards

• 1957: German Youth Literature Award, special award for text and illustration for Der kleine Wassermann
• 1958: Selection list of the German Youth Literature Prize for The Little Witch
• 1963: Selection list of the German Youth Literature Prize for Der Räuber Hotzenplotz
• 1967: Shortlist of the German Youth Literature Prize for Das kleine Gespenst
• 1970: Shortlist of the German Youth Literature Prize for news from the robber Hotzenplotz
• 1972: German Youth Book Prize for Krabat
• 1972: Silver Pencil from Rotterdam - Dutch youth book award for Krabat
• 1973: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1973: European Youth Book Prize for Krabat
• 1973: Notable Book of 1973 the American Library Association for Krabat
• 1977: Youth Book Prize of the Polish Publishers' Association for Krabat
• 1979: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1985: Liebieg Medal from the Reichenberg home district in Augsburg
• 1987: Bavarian poet thaler
• 1988: Grand Prize of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature e. V. Volkach for complete works
• 1988: IBBY Honor List for Das kleine Gespenst in the Greek translation
• 1990: Eichendorff Literature Prize
• 1990: Pro Meritis Medal of Merit from the Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture
• 1991: Appointment as adjunct professor of the Republic of Austria
• 1992: German Fantasy Prize of the City of Passau and the EDFC e. V. for his complete works
• 1993: Federal Cross of Merit (1st class)
• 1998: Wildweibchenpreis
• 2000: Konrad Adenauer Prize from the Germany Foundation
• 2000: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 2010: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
• 2014: ( Golden Record , Germany: Kids Award) for Die kleine Hexe 01 and 02 , Das kleine Gespenst 01 , learning English with the little witch and learning English with the little ghost

Works

Books

• 1944: Geyer harvest camp With drawings by Ferdinand Spindel . Young Generation Publishing House, Berlin.
• 1951: The little game of making weather
• 1951: The game of the dear long year
• 1951: The traveling student in paradise
• 1951: Kasperl has a good heart
• 1951: Mrs. Neighbor, Mrs. Neighbor, where does she want to go with the flowers?
• 1951: The Persian Shah
• 1951: It haunts the Mitteralm
• 1951: Dear nightingale, wake up
• 1951: The Fasenacht is funny
• 1951: That love does not go away, that loyalty proves its worth. A hen party game for children
• 1951: The strange pale face
• 1953: The game of the seven journeymen
• 1954: Hello, Mrs. Base
• 1956: Little Aquarius
• 1957: The little witch
• 1958: With us in Schilda ISBN 3-522-10600-8
• 1958: Thomas Vogelschreck ISBN 3-522-12610-6
• 1962: Kater Mikesch (retelling)
• 1962: The robber Hotzenplotz
• 1966: The little ghost
• 1968: The adventures of the strong Vanya
• 1968: The Secret of the Orange Cat (editing and translation)
• 1969: News from the robber Hotzenplotz
• 1969: Schnurr the cat with blue eyes (editing and translation)
• 1971: Krabat
• 1972: Stupid Augustine
• 1973: Hotzenplotz 3
• 1975: The fairy tale of the unicorn
• 1978: The flight to Egypt. Royal bohemian part.
• 1981: Listen with the big hat
• 1981: Pumphutt and the begging children
• 1983: Hörbe and his friend Zwottel
• 1984: The golden fountain. A fairy tale game
• 1985: Children's plays
• 1985: The angel with the bobble hat. Six Christmas stories
• 1987: Mr. Klingsor could do a little magic ISBN 3-522-16480-6
• 1988: Twelve has beaten it ISBN 3-522-16100-9
• 1988: The Otfried Preußler reading book ISBN 3-423-10959-9
• 1989: Epiphany stories. The Crown of the Mohr King / The Song of the Cicada
• 1989: The green ore bell
• 1990: Fair in Rummelsbach ISBN 3-522-42870-6
• 1991: Das Räuber Hotzenplotz puzzle picture book ISBN 3-522-42990-7
• 1991: run, zenta, run! ISBN 3-522-42960-5
• 1993: Mein Rübezahlbuch ISBN 3-522-16803-8
• 1993: The little donkey and the little angel ISBN 3-522-43156-1
• 1993: Bread for Myra. A story of St. Nicholas
• 1993: Thanks to good friends! - Short stories Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge eV
• 1995: The Weihenstetten bell
• 1995: The Zenzi with the loose tooth illustrated by Rolf Rettich
• 1996: From the dragon who wanted to join the Indians
• 1998: Say, Herr Preußler '- Festschrift for Otfried Preußler on his 75th birthday ISBN 3-522-17249-3
• 1999: Hey-Ho! Hotzenplotz! - The great robber Hotzenplotz song book ISBN 3-522-17324-4
• 2000: The great book of ballads (in collaboration with Heinrich Pleticha and Friedrich Hechelmann)
• 2001: Wasserschratz and Patzenkatze ISBN 3-522-43364-5
• 2001: where is Tella? Illustrated by Petra Probst , ISBN 3-522-43365-3
• 2002: One, two, three in the bear step ISBN 3-522-17188-8
• 2003: Otfried Preußler on his 80th birthday ISBN 3-522-17626-X
• 2010: I am a storyteller, edited by Susanne Preußler-Bitsch and Regine Stigloher, ISBN 978-3-522-20095-0
• 2011: Der kleine Wassermann - Frühling im Mühlenweiher, edited by Preußler, Daniel Napp and Regine Stigloher, ISBN 978-3-522-43678-6
• 2013: Der kleine Wassermann - Sommerfest im Mühlenweiher, published by Preußler, Napp and Stigloher, ISBN 978-3-522-43746-2
• 2014: Der kleine Wassermann - Herbst im Mühlenweiher Ed. Von Preußler (posthumously), Napp and Stigloher, ISBN 978-3-522-43775-2
• 2016: Das kleine Gespenst - Tohuwabohu at Burg Eulenstein Ed. Von Preußler (posthumously), Napp and Susanne Preußler-Bitsch, ISBN 978-3-522-45809-2
• 2017: The Little Witch - Excursion with Abraxas Ed. Von Preußler (posthumously), Napp and Preußler-Bitsch, ISBN 978-3-522-45854-2
• 2018: The robber Hotzenplotz and the moon rocket, edited by Preußler (posthumously) and Preußler-Bitsch, ISBN 978-3-522-18510-3

Translations

Otfried Preußler translated the first two volumes of the pentalogy Die Chroniken von Prydain by Lloyd Alexander into German. In 1987 he also translated the picture book Der Schneemann for Bärenreiter-Verlag .

Audio books

• 2005: The adventures of the strong Vanya. With Rosemarie Fendel , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as audio book download or 3 CDs, 190 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-425-5
• 2005: Learning English with the little witch. With Robert Metcalf , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 1 CD, 79 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-418-7
• 2005: Learning English with little Aquarius. With Robert Metcalf, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 1 CD, 78 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-419-4
• 2005: Learning English with the little ghost. With Robert Metcalf, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 1 CD, 75 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-417-0
• 2005: The robber Hotzenplotz. With Michael Mendl , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 2 CDs, 112 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-469-9
• 2006: News from the robber Hotzenplotz. With Michael Mendl, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 110 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-496-5
• 2006: Little Aquarius. With Laura Maire , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as audio book download or 2 CDs, 112 MIn., ISBN 978-3-89813-545-0
• 2007: Krabat. With Otfried Preußler, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, abridged version, 3 CDs, 212 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-609-9
• 2007: The little witch. With Laura Maire, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 129 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-661-7
• 2008: Hotzenplotz 3. With Michael Mendl, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 109 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-723-2
• 2008: The little ghost. With Fritzi Haberlandt , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 116 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-772-0
• 2010: The big robber Hotzenplotz box. With Michael Mendl, Alexander Wipprecht , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 6 CDs, 333 min., ISBN 978-3-89813-962-5
• 2010: Krabat. ISBN 978-3-86231-018-0
• 2011: Little Aquarius. With Florian Lukas , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 121 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-039-5
• 2011: The little ghost. With Nora Tschirner , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 111 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-092-0
• 2012: The great audio book. With Boris Aljinovic , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, as an audio book download or 3 CDs, 204 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-142-2
• 2012: Stupid Augustine. With Camilla Renschke , Steffen Scheumann , and many others, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as an audio book download or 1 CD, 48 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-143-9
• 2012: News from the robber Hotzenplotz. With Armin Rohde , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 127 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-189-7
• 2012: The robber Hotzenplotz. With Armin Rohde, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 145 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-188-0
• 2012: Hotzenplotz. With Armin Rohde, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 110 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-190-3
• 2013: It struck twelve.
• 2013: The most beautiful stories from Otfried Preußler. With Florian Lukas, Heike Makatsch , Nora Tschirner, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, 6 CDs, 352 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-312-9
• 2013: The angel with the bobble hat. With Otfried Preußler, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, 2 CDs, 128 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-310-5
• 2014: Little Aquarius - spring in the mill pond. With Gustav Stolze , Friedhelm Ptok , Stefan Kaminski , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 1 CD, 39 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-337-2
• 2014: Little Aquarius - summer festival in the mill pond. With Gustav Stolze, Friedhelm Ptok, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 1 CD, 43 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-385-3
• 2014: Little Aquarius - autumn in the mill pond. With Gustav Stolze, Friedhelm Ptok, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 1 CD, 39 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-406-5
• 2014: The Robber Hotzenplotz- Live! With Wolfram Koch , Daniel Rothaug , Kathrin Ackermann , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as an audio book download or 1 CD, 53 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-426-3
• 2014: Winter time, deeply snowed in.
• 2015: Learn English with the little ghost, the little witch and the little Aquarius. With Robert Metcalf, Frank Arnold , Friedhelm Ptok, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 3 CDs, 233 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-508-6
• 2015: The donkey and the little angel and another story. With Ernst Konarek , Heike Makatsch, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, as an audio book download or 1 CD, 23 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-599-4
• 2016: The big audio book about little Aquarius. With Stefan Kaminski, Friedhelm Ptok, Gustav Stolze, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 3 CDs, 121 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-692-2
• 2016: The little ghost - Tohuwabohu at Eulenstein Castle. With Anna Thalbach , Santiago Ziesmer , Hans-Jürgen Schatz , Erich Räuker , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 1 CD, 47 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-689-2
• 2016: Listen with the big hat. With Nico Holonics , Sandra Schwittauch , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as an audio book download or 1 CD, 58 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-834-6
• 2017: Krabat. With Michael Mendl, Laura Maire, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 3 CDs, 180 min., ISBN 978-3-7424-0052-9
• 2017: The little witch . With Karoline Herfurth , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 106 min., ISBN 978-3-86231-981-7
• 2017: It struck twelve. With Andreas Fröhlich , Cathlen Gawlich , Kai Lüftner , David Nathan , Rainer Strecker , and many others, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, abridged reading, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 141 min., ISBN 978-3-7424-0011-6
• 2017: Winter time, deeply snowed in. With Rolf Zuckowski , Mai Cocopelli , Philipp Sonntag , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, abridged reading, 2 CDs, 132 min., ISBN 978-3-7424-0184-7
• 2018: The Little Witch - The original radio play for the film. With Karoline Herfurth, Suzanne von Borsody , Axel Prahl , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, as an audio book download or 2 CDs, 100 min., ISBN 978-3-7424-0063-5
• 2018: Krabat. With Felix von Manteuffel , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, unabridged reading, as an audio book download or 6 CDs, 445 min., ISBN 978-3-7424-0501-2
• 2018: The Adventures of Strong Vanya. With Andreas Pietschmann , Rosemarie Fendel, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, radio play, 3 CDS, 190 min., ISBN 978-3-7424-0484-8

Film adaptations

There are numerous film adaptations of Preussler's books, some of which have already been published several times.

• 1964: Kater Mikesch (TV series, Augsburger Puppenkiste )
• 1967: The Robber Hotzenplotz (TV movie)
• 1968: The Adventures of Strong Vanya (TV series / puppet show)
• 1969: The Little Ghost (TV film / puppet show)
• 1969: The Little Witch (TV film / puppet show)
• 1974: The robber Hotzenplotz
• 1975: The Little Witch (TV movie / puppet show)
• 1977: Krabat
• 1979: News from the robber Hotzenplotz
• 1985: Kater Mikesch (TV series, Augsburger Puppenkiste )
• 1986: The little witch
• 1986: Little Baba Jaga
• 1987: Geist von Eulenberg
• 1991: Little Witch
• 1992: The little ghost
• 1993: Stupid Augustine
• 2006: The robber Hotzenplotz
• 2008: Krabat
• 2013: The little ghost
• 2018: The little witch

literature

• Dino Larese : Otfried Preussler. Notes on origin, biography and work. Library, Amriswil 1975.
• Elisabeth Kaufmann: Otfried Preußler , in: KLG - Critical Lexicon for contemporary German-language literature. , in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Otfried Preußler , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/2009 from March 3, 2009, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Ernst Seibert (ed.), Kateřina Kovačková (ed.): Otfried Preußler - work and effect . Peter Lang, 2013, ISBN 978-3-653-03528-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Otfried Preußler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Otfried Preußler  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Otfried Preußler in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Otfried Preußler in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Otfried Preußler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Otfried Preußler at filmportal.de
• Author's website
• Obituary for Otfried Preussler. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 20, 2013
• Otfried-Preußler-Gymnasium Pullach
• Biography Otfried Preußler , Who's Who Germany
• Christiane Kopka: October 20, 1923 - birthday of Otfried Preußler WDR ZeitZeichen from October 20, 2013 (podcast)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Children's book author Otfried Preußler is dead. In: Focus Online , February 20, 2013, accessed on September 7, 2019; “Räuber Hotzenplotz” creator: Children's book author Preussler is dead. In: Spiegel Online , February 20, 2013, accessed on September 7, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Caroline Mascher: "I'm a bit of a magician too". In: Focus , September 29, 2008 (interview), accessed on September 7, 2019
3. ^ Günter Lange: Questions about Otfried Preußler's biography and work . In: Volkacher Bote , magazine of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature , issue 99, December 2013, pp. 30–35, here: p. 31; Ortfried Kotzian: "The most grateful audience in the world: children". With Otfried Preußler in Romania - A travel report and mood picture on the occasion of the death of the popular children's book author . In: West-Ost-Journal. Journal of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation , 3/2013, pp. 21–25, here: p. 21.
4. ↑ Hotzenplotz from Osoblaha: The Bohemian Themes in Otfried Preussler's Collegium Carolinum from March 5, 2010 (pdf; 75 kB), accessed on September 7, 2019
5. ↑ Bibliography Rosenheim, p. 248 , city archive. de of July 2008 (pdf; 1.3 MB, 365 pages), accessed on September 7, 2019
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Tina Sprung: The wonderful storyteller. In: didacta. The magazine for lifelong learning. No. 04/16, pp. 26-27.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Questionnaire: Otfried Preußler. In: School & Us. The parenting magazine. Published by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, No. 3/2010, p. 20.
8. ↑ HanisauLand - books - author lexicon . In: www.hanisauland.de . Retrieved October 20, 2017.
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Carola Leitner: Otfried Preußler's “brown” early work. News orf.at from September 6, 2015, accessed on September 7, 2019
10. ↑ Little Aquarius. In: Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag from July 16, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Regine Stigloher. In: Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
12. ↑ On the death of Otfried Preußler. In: "Fried" (Ed. Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge) 1/2013, p. 31.
13. ↑ Marcus Jauer: Otfried Preußler moves to Berlin. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 24, 2013.
14. ^ Otfried Preußler Kinderstückepreis to Karen Koehler , nachtkritik.de of June 16, 2013. Accessed September 7, 2019
15. ↑ scandal in Pullach: Director Abifeier the sweeps. In: Münchner Merkur of June 26, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
16. ^ The Otfried Preußler Gymnasium ( Memento from February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), SPD Pullach from July 23, 2013, accessed on September 7, 2019
17. ↑ Opening ceremony. In: Otfried-Preußler-Schule from June 29, 2015. Retrieved on September 7, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online ( Memento from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 7, 2019
19. ↑ Bearer of the Bavarian Maximilian Order 2010. Bavarian State Government, October 20, 2010 ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 7, 2019
20. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Music Industry Association , accessed on September 7, 2019
21. ↑ swr-media.de: Das kleine Gespenst ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 7, 2019
22. ^ The Little Witch ( Memento November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Japan. Tokyo Television, accessed September 7, 2019
23. ↑ kinopoisk.ru - Little Baba Yaga , based on The Little Witch (Russian)
24. ↑ kinopoisk.ru - Geist von Eulenberg , based on The Little Ghost (Russian)
25. ↑ animator.ru - Little Witch (Russian)
26. ↑ The Little Witch - filmportal.de . In: www.filmportal.de . Retrieved September 7, 2019.