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Theodor Seuss Geisel at the age of 53 (1957)
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Theodor Seuss Geisel (born March 2, 1904 in Springfield , Massachusetts , † September 24, 1991 in La Jolla , California ), called Dr. Seuss [ SUS ], was an American children's book - Author and cartoonist , in Europe best known as the inventor of the Christmas-hating Grinch . Geisel also wrote under the pseudonyms Theo LeSieg and Rosetta Stone .

Life

Geisel, the son of a German father, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and attended Dartmouth College until 1925 . There he was editor of the humor magazine Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern and first used the pseudonym Seuss in 1925 when he was banned from working on the magazine because of illegal gin consumption. He then studied at Lincoln College, Oxford University with a major in literature . In Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who became his wife in 1927.

After returning to the United States, he wrote and drew for Judge magazine and, over time, was given the pseudonym Dr. Seuss author of numerous illustrated children's books like The cat with hat (The Cat in the Hat) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) known. The reason for its success was above all its beginner books , which manage with fewer than 250 different words, but arouse the interest of young readers with meaningful and imaginative illustrations and short, smart texts. The first work in this series was Der Kater mit Hut in 1957 , which was commissioned by the two publishers Houghton Mifflin and Random House with the intention of bringing out a book for beginners that would not challenge their imagination and thus make the entry into the world of reading exciting . In 2020 Der Kater mit Hut appeared at number 2 on the list of the most borrowed books in the New York Public Library's 125th anniversary . Many more beginner books like One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish followed. The public-shy hostage also made headlines because of his very liberal political views at the time and their expression in his artistic work.

Other works include Fox in Socks, Oh, the Places You'll Go and Horton Hatches the Egg . He has authored more than 40 books and is one of the most widely read children's authors in the English-speaking world. In 1980 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award of the American Library Association for his great contributions to children's literature .

One year after the suicide of his first wife Helen on October 23, 1967, Geisel married his lover Audrey Stone. He died on September 24, 1991 after a long illness.

In 2012, Dartmouth Medical School was renamed Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in honor of him and his wife Audrey .

Film adaptations (selection)

Others

University of California hostage library , San Diego (design: William Pereira )
  • Seussical - The Musical! In the musical Seussical , Dr. Seuss' most popular characters, such as Horton the Elephant, and The Cat in the Hat. Not even by Dr. Seuss wrote, the happy musical achieved cult status and is often performed at American high schools. The seussical is considered a "Tribute to Dr. Seuss ”.
  • The hostage library at the University of California, San Diego was named after him.
  • The Austrian natural scientist Hans E. Suess lived in the same postal delivery district , which occasionally led to confusion.
  • One of the best known songs by the alternative rock / pop band REM , The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight , references him and The Cat In The Hat.
  • He grew up in a family of German immigrants and spoke both English and German.
  • In his book Quantum Mechanics , the physicist Leonard Susskind (Stanford) refers to the figures North going Sax and South going Sax invented by Seuss when describing only right and left moving particles (wave packets) .

literature

Web links

Commons : Dr. Seuss  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dartmouth. In: The Art of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss Enterprises. Retrieved September 13, 2017 (American English).
  2. ↑ The Banned Book of Dr. Seuss . accessed on January 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Dr. Seuss Biography . accessed on January 12, 2014.
  4. ^ Carly Cassella: The New York Public Library Has Calculated Its Most Checked-Out Book in Its 125 Years . on Science Alert , January 18, 2020, accessed January 18, 2020.
  5. ^ Dartmouth medical school being renamed for 'Dr Seuss', dailymail.co.uk, April 4, 2012.
  6. ↑ Melissa Kaplan: Theodor Seuss Geisel: Author Study. In: Herp Care Collection. January 1, 2014, accessed September 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Geisel, Theodor Seuss
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dr. Seuss (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American children's author and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1991
Place of death La Jolla , California