Otti Pfeiffer

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Ottilie "Otti" Pfeiffer (born July 29, 1931 in Wesel ; † August 9, 2001 in Herdecke ) was a German poet as well as an author of children's and young adult books .

Her best-known book is the children's and youth novel Nelly Waits for Peace , which tells of the war experiences of a little girl during the Nazi era from 1939 to 1945 in Berlin , Wesel and the Ruhr area . In Germany, the book is often read in class at elementary and secondary schools .

Biographical information

After the birth (as Ottilie Kaulen) in Wesel on the Lower Rhine , Otti Pfeiffer and her parents first moved to Essen , then to Witten , where she also attended secondary school and later became an administrative employee. In 1956 she made up her Abitur at the evening grammar school and then studied at the Librarian Training Institute in Cologne , where she graduated as a qualified librarian. Then she worked in the Dortmund city ​​library . She finally founded a family with Hermann Pfeiffer in Herdecke and had three children (Michael, Ingo and Susanne). She is buried in the cemetery of the Protestant parish Herdecke Ende on Kirchender Dorfweg.

Literary activities

In the late 1940s and early 1950s she was the only woman to be a member of the ring of young authors in West Germany . a. together with Heinrich Böll . She later became a member of the Association of German Writers , the European Authors 'Association Die Kogge and the Witten authors' group . In addition to a few short stories, novels and volumes of poetry, she wrote over 30 books for children and young people.

Awards

Works

  • Love, marriage, birth control , Dortmund 1967
  • Rejections from the kitchen , Dortmund 1972
  • Let's make a sandstorm , Hanover 1976
  • The stones ' facial expressions , Dortmund 1977
  • Pascha pony , Balve / Sauerland 1978
  • So small with a hat , Dortmund 1978
  • Dreams are in the timetable , Munich [u. a.] 1978
  • Count to 100 and you win! , Cologne 1978 (together with Günther Stiller)
  • Small steps , Stuttgart 1979
  • Time running through the hourglass , Dortmund 1979
  • Anita Dreckspatz , Munich [a. a.] 1980
  • The big Olaf and the little Knüpse , Hamburg 1980
  • Me and you and the others too , Hanover [u. a.] 1980 (together with Johannes Fessl)
  • The little fairy , Balve / Sauerland 1980
  • An exciting book , Hanover 1981
  • A sparrow on the Red Square , Dortmund 1981
  • One too many in the class register , Hamburg 1982
  • Brummi and Mauz on a journey , Balve / Sauerland 1984
  • Friends are not left in the lurch , Balve 1984
  • Nelly waits for peace , Hamburg 1984
  • Nicole, fourteen: "Who wants to go with that?" , Ravensburg 1984
  • There's always something going on at Krause! , Hildesheim 1986
  • The ostrich egg or: Everyone has the right to brood and other stories , Dortmund 1986
  • Between heaven and hell , Hamburg 1986
  • The funny shop from Kabitze and Kabunke , Munich 1987
  • The estate , Cologne 1987
  • And then it was pink , Stuttgart 1987
  • Hungary , Dortmund 1987
  • A knight is dancing in the schoolyard , Munich 1988
  • Three grandmas are too many , Bindlach 1988
  • Nelly or peace is something else , Hamburg 1988
  • Reading lion laughing stories , Bindlach 1990
  • Kullemulle becomes big brother , Bindlach in 1991
  • Papa just for me , Bindlach 1992
  • Who Wants to Have a Little Cat? , Hamburg 1992
  • Jim Jumbo on trips , Hamburg 1997 (together with Silvio Neuendorf )
  • Little Advent Stories , Munich 1997
  • Little circus stories , Munich 1998

literature

  • Hugo Ernst Buyer (Ed.): Otti Pfeiffer - Built into the Ferris wheel, life and work 1931-2001 . Grupello-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-933749-93-X (with extensive bibliography, image and text documents).
  • Wolf-Dieter Lepiorz: Written in Witten. Bibliography from 1833 to the present. Novels, short stories, dramas and poems . Ruhrstadt-Verlag, Witten 2002, ISBN 3-935382-08-1 .
  • Reading book Otti Pfeiffer . Compiled by Anna Peters and Susanne Schöneich. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8498-1277-5 (Nylands Kleine Westfälische Bibliothek 74).

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personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Otti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeiffer, Ottilie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and author of children's and young adult books
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2001
Place of death Herdecke