Peter Abraham

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Peter Abraham (2009)

Peter Abraham ( pseudonym Karl Georg von Löffelholz ; born January 19, 1936 in Berlin-Neukölln ; † February 6, 2015 in Potsdam ) was a German writer .

Life

Abraham was the son of a baker and later commercial artist and a stenographer who died in 1943. In the final phase of the Second World War , Abraham's father lived in illegality , Abraham himself under a false name with foster parents .

After the war he grew up in Berlin, where he also attended elementary school. From 1950 to 1953 he completed an apprenticeship as a publisher and bookseller , after which he worked for two years as a retailer in a Berlin publishing house. From 1956 to 1960 he studied at the film academy in Potsdam-Babelsberg , from which Abraham graduated with a diploma in film dramaturgy. From 1960 he worked as a dramaturge for GDR television ; From 1976 he lived as a freelance writer in Potsdam and also worked as an editor and theater critic in Berlin.

Peter Abraham was one of the most famous children's book authors in the GDR ; even after the fall of the Wall , he remained loyal to this genre. He also worked as a screenwriter on numerous films and television plays . His children's book The School Ghost was filmed by DEFA in 1986 . The main character of the book, the cheeky and clever Carola Huflattich, is also the leading actress in other books by Abraham ( The Monkey Star , Carola's Flight to Denkdirwas ). The author has written novels beyond the genre of children's and young people's books, including: a. Cuckoo Brood and The Shots of Noah's Ark . In 2011 he published his autobiography When I Forgot to Play , in which he writes about his childhood in Nazi Germany and the years after.

Peter Abraham was a member of the Association of German Writers .

Awards

Works

  • Slacker. (Children's book) Berlin 1963.
  • The first hour. Portraits , 1969 (co-author).
  • The shots of Noah's Ark or The errors and wanderings of my friend Wensloff. (Roman) Berlin 1970.
  • My wedding to the princess. (Roman) Berlin 1972.
  • Frederic. (Children's book) Berlin 1973 (Illustrations: Eberhard Binder).
  • ABC, reading doesn't hurt , Berlin 1974 (together with Gertrud Zucker )
  • The windy shower bottles , Berlin 1974 (together with Eberhard Binder)
  • A Columbus on the Havel , Berlin 1975
  • Kaspar or The Shirt of the Just , Berlin 1976
  • The school ghost , Berlin 1978
  • Doctor Aibolit , Berlin 1979 (together with Karl Schrader)
  • Come with me to Chicago , Berlin 1979
  • Pianke , Berlin 1981
  • Das eightchte Geißlein , Berlin 1983 (together with Hannes Hüttner and Uwe Kant under the common pseudonym Karl Georg von Löffelholz)
  • Red Fox and Other People , Berlin 1983
  • Why do you get a slap? , Berlin 1983
  • The Affenstern , Berlin 1985
  • From elks and ear mushrooms , Berlin 1987
  • Fünkchen lives , Berlin 1988
  • The Dachshund Point , Würzburg 1991
  • Before I was there , Berlin 1992
  • Piepheini , Munich 1996
  • Carola's escape to Denkdirwas , Leipzig 1997
  • Animal stories , Ravensburg 1999
  • Holiday stories, Ravensburg 2001 (with Gabie Selbach)
  • Pirate stories , illustrations: Wilfried Gebhard . Ravensburg 2001
  • The school ghost and the super detectives , Ravensburg 2003
  • The school ghost on the move , Ravensburg 2005
  • Cuckoo Brood - Novel of a Quest , Culture Machines - Berlin 2009
  • When I forgot to play , autobiography of the early years, culture machines - Berlin 2011

Filmography

Editing

  • Long-distance journeys , Berlin 1976
  • I love living in Berlin 1982
  • Madness! , Ravensburg 1990 (with Margarete Gorschenek)

literature

  • Meyer's pocket dictionary. GDR writer. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1974.

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personal data
SURNAME Abraham, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spoonwood, Karl Georg von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2015
Place of death Potsdam