Michael Ende
Writer, Author
1929 – 1995
Who was Michael Ende?
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction. He is best known for his epic fantasy The Neverending Story; other famous works include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 20 million copies, and adapted as motion pictures, stage plays, operas and audio books.
Ende was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's fiction. He was not strictly a children's writer, however, as he wrote books for adults too. Ende claimed, "It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories", and that "[my books are] for any child between 80 and 8 years". He often expressed frustration over being perceived as a children's writer exclusively, considering that his purpose was to speak of cultural problems and spiritual wisdom to people of all ages. He wrote in 1985:
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the nursery door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one to have suffered this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.
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- Born
- Nov 12, 1929
Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Also known as
- Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende
- Mihyaeru Ende
- Parents
- Spouses
- Ingeborg Hoffmann
(1964 - 1985) - Mariko Satō
(1989 - 1995)
- Ingeborg Hoffmann
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Lived in
- Bavaria
- Died
- Aug 28, 1995
Filderstadt
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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