We Austins

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Meet the Austins (1960) is the first children's book by the American author Madeleine L'Engle and the first volume in a children's book series, which was followed by six more books in the following years. It was published in German in 1963 by Erika Klopp Verlag in Berlin under the title Wir Austins , translated from the American by Lena Stepath .

Klopp Verlag recommended the German edition for people aged 12 and over. From 1968 the book was published as a licensed edition by Ravensburger Otto-Maier-Verlag and Maier Verlag as a paperback in several editions , most recently in 1972 in the third edition.

This children's novel consists of a family story based on episodes from the author's family life. The largely idyllic family life of the Austin family is portrayed from the perspective of the main character Vicky . The orphan girl Maggy brings a lot of hustle and bustle into the American medical family until she finally got used to living with four siblings.

The book is assigned to the children's and youth literature or girls' literature that serves socialization and addresses the efforts of outsiders to integrate themselves based on the fate of an orphan. It was recommended in 1967 as a suitable text for German lessons in the 6th grade.

Several sequels followed later; including The Moon by Night (1963) and The Young Unicorns (1968). The seventh and to date last volume in the series was published in 1994 under the title Troubling a Star . The first volume, Meet the Austins , was reissued in 1997, supplemented by a previously missing chapter, which had already appeared separately in 1980 under the title The Anti-Muffins .

German-language editions (selection)

  • 1963: 1st - 5th Th., Erika Klopp Verlag, Berlin.
  • 1966: 2nd edition, Erika Klopp Verlag, Berlin.
  • 1968: 1st edition, Otto-Maier-Verlag, Ravensburg. (Ravensburger paperbacks, vol. 114)
  • 1972: 3rd edition, Maier Verlag, Ravensburg, ISBN 3-473-39114-X . (Ravensburger Taschenbücher, vol. 114: At home and elsewhere )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate of the Bavarian State Libraries: Die Neue Bücherei. Journal of the Department for Public Libraries at the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Libraries and the State Advice Centers for Public Libraries in Bavaria, Vol. 2 . Die neue Bücherei, Munich 1965, ISSN  0028-3126 , p. 405.
  2. ↑ Malte Dahrendorf: The girl's book and its reader. Reading for young people as an instrument of socialization . 4th edition, Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 1980 (= Beltz-Monographien: Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung ), ISBN 3-407-56501-1 , p. 219.
  3. ^ Anna Krüger: Texts for German lessons. Volume 5: Stories for Year 6 . Moritz Diesterweg publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1967, p. 95.