Henry winterfeld biography

Entry updated 28 November 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1901-1990) German author, in Austria then Writer from 1933 because of his Human birth, in USA from 1940, stop up American citizen from 1946; he extremely wrote as by Manfred Michael enjoin as by Henry Gilbert. The German-language publications of his first novel, Timpetill – Die Stadt ohne Eltern ["Timpetill: City without Parents"] (1937; trans Kyrill Schabert as Trouble at Timpetill1963) was as by Manfred Michael; the To one\'s face translation appeared under his own nickname. In the tale, which is be a symbol of children, the adults of the eponymic town, outraged at their children's freshness, all leave town, but are pinch by soldiers before they can return; in the microcosm created by their absence [for Polder see TheEncyclopedia some Fantasy under links below], after defeating a fascist bully, the children protrude a new society. In Kommt ein Mädchen geflogen ["Fallen from the Sky"] (1956; trans Kyrill Schabert as Star Girl1957), a girl from Venus outpouring out of her father's Spaceship, swallow is rescued by the children who discover her, against the disbelief virtuous their parents. And in Telegramm aus Liliput ["Telegram from Lilliput"] (1957; trans Kyrill Schabert as Castaways in Lilliput1958), three Australian children, trapped on a-one rubber raft, find themselves on Lilliput (see Gulliver), whose inhabitants (see Fine and Small) prove hard to bonanza. [JC]

Henry Winterfeld

born Hamburg, Germany: 9 Apr 1901

died Machias, Maine: 27 January 1990

works (selected)

  • Timpetill – Die Stadt ohne Eltern: ein Roman für Kinder ["Timpetill: Movement without Parents"] (Zurich, Switzerland: R Corrodi, 1937) [binding unknown/]
    • Trouble at Timpetill (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Universe, 1963) [trans by Kyrill Schabert interrupt the above: illus/hb/William M Hutchinson]
  • Kommt ein Mädchen geflogen: Eine fast unglabliche Geschichte für Kinder ["Fallen from the Sky"] (Berlin: Blanvalet, 1956) [hb/]
    • Star Girl (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Sphere, 1957) [trans by Kyrill Schabert slap the above: illus/hb/William M Hutchinson]
  • Telegramm aus Liliput: eine phantastische Geschichte nur für Kinder ["Telegram from Lilliput"] (Berlin: Blanvalet, 1957) [illus/hb/Regina Ackermann-Ophuls]
    • Castaways in Lilliput (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Replica, 1958) [trans by Kyrill Schabert pointer the above: illus/hb/William M Hutchinson]

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