Henny Koch
Writer, Author
1854 – 1925
Who was Henny Koch?
Henny Koch was a translator and a German children's author. She was born in Alsfeld, Grand Duchy of Hesse. From 1898 on, she lived in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße in Hessia, Germany, where she died in 1925. She produced the first German translation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1890. Henny Koch wrote 29 books, mainly for young girls. Her books were published in eight countries. Her most successful work was a series of novels, beginning with Papas Junge, in which you can accompany the protagonist through her life as a young girl, a mother and grandmother. A film has been made based on this novel Il birichino di papà, Italy, 1943, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo with music by Nino Rota.
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- Born
- Sep 22, 1854
Alsfeld - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 13, 1925
Seeheim-Jugenheim
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on July 23, 2013
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