Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke ( born December 10, 1958 in Dorsten, North Rhine -Westphalia ) is a German children 's and teen book author whose novels are fantastic international success and has been translated with a total circulation of 20 million books in 37 languages.
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Biography
After completing her secondary education at the Gymnasium of St. Ursula in Dorsten Cornelia Funke moved to Hamburg and trained as a graduate teacher. For three years she worked as a governess on a Bauspielplatz and studied in parallel, book illustration at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung in Hamburg. Through her work as an illustrator of children's books she herself came to writing. Incidentally Cornelia Funke worked on scripts for the TV series Seven stone.
His international breakthrough came in 2002, when her already in 2000 published in Germany in Dressler Verlag book appeared Thief Lord by Scholastic in the U.S. and stood there for many months on the U.S. bestseller lists. The discovery of this book for the English speaking world leads spark to "Clara" back, a bilingual grown up girl with the publisher of Harry Potter, Barry Cunningham, also complained that she could not share with their friends at school in England, her favorite book. The cousin of spark then wrote a rough translation into English, based on which the contract was concluded with the English publisher. Meanwhile, this book has been translated into 23 languages. Her novel Inkheart was released in September 2003, already at the same time in Germany, the UK, the U.S., Canada and Australia. 2004 has caused even the English translation of the book dragon rider.
The total circulation of their books at the end of 2005 at a little over 10 million copies. Her books have been isolated in 37 languages ( as of 2008). The TIME Magazine in 2005 it was one of the world's 100 most influential people. After she had a total circulation of 15 million books in 2008, it was announced in October 2012 that they could sell more than 20 million books worldwide.
Unlike the Harry Potter novels by JK Rowling, the editor of Der Spiegel bestseller list have long refused to take Funke's works despite huge sales. Only the third and concluding volume of the Inkheart trilogy, Tintentod could change this and climbed to # 1 on October 8, 2007.
In September 2010, appeared Funke's new novel Reckless. Stone flesh at the same time in Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Mexico, Spain, France and Norway. It is the prelude to the first great novel series after the Inkheart trilogy. 2011 Funke wrote the book The book devourer for the 200th Pixi Books series. In September 2012, appeared with living shadows, the second part of their Reckless series.
Many of her works are published by Oetinger audio, Jumbo Publishing and in Hörverlag as audio versions and placed in part to the hr2 audio book best list ( for example, consequences fox alarm the series The Wild Chicks, spoken by the author herself, and the Inkheart trilogy and Thief Lord, spoken by Rainer Strecker ).
Private
- By May 2005, Cornelia Funke lived in Hamburg- Wohldorf- Ohlstedt and then moved with her husband Rolf Frahm, whom she had married in 1979, and their two children, Anna and Ben in the United States after Los Angeles. Her husband, with whom she was married 26 years, died on March 5, 2006, 58 years to his colon cancer.
- Cornelia Funke is since February 2010 official sponsor of the children's hospice for dying children Bethel.
- Since May 2012 she is one of the German ambassadors to the UN Decade of Biodiversity.
Works
The Ghosthunters
- Ghosthunters on icy track, 1993
- Ghosthunters in Feuerspuk, 1994
- Ghost hunters in the creepy castle, 1995
- Ghosthunters in great danger, 2001
The Wild Chicks
- The Wild Chicks 1993
- The Wild Chicks on a school trip 1996
- The Wild Chicks, fox alarm, 1998
- The Wild Chicks and the happiness of the Earth, 2000
- The Wild Chicks in Love, 2003
More The - Wild Chickens Books
- The Wild Chicks - The tape book to join in, 2001
- The Wild Chicks - My Diary, 2004
- The Wild Chicks in Love, 2008
- The Wild Chicks fox alarm
- The Wild Chicks and Life ( Thomas Schmid)
Inkheart trilogy
- Inkheart, 2003
- Tintenblut, 2005
- Tintentod, 2007
More Inkheart Books
- Jane Mason, Alex Bögerl, Sarah Hines - Stephens: Cornelia Funke's Inkheart - The Movie Story, 2008
- Karin Piper Staisch: The world of Inkheart, with illustrations by Cornelia Funke, 2008
Reckless
- Reckless. Stone flesh, 2010
- Reckless. Living Shadow, 2012
More Books
- The great dragon search. Or Ben and Lisa fly onto the roof of the world, 1988
- Behind enchanted windows, 1989
- No biscuit for goblins, 1989
- Lilli and fin, 1990
- Potilla, 1992
- Monster Face, 1993
- Captain Crinklebeard and his gang, 1993
- Ene-mene - puzzle fun with vampires, 1994
- Tales of chivalry, 1994
- Two wild, little witches, 1994
- Shaggy claw, the Earth Monster, 1994
- When Santa Fell to Earth, 1994
- Captain Crinklebeard on Treasure Island, 1995
- Greta and owl, dog sitter 1995
- The Moonlight Dragon, 1996
- Small Werewolf, 1996
- The Enchanted Classroom, 1997
- Horror mystery with vampires, 1997
- Hands off Mississippi, 1997
- Animal Stories, 1997
- Princess Isabella, 1997
- Dragon Rider, 1997
- Darn zugehext, 1998
- Thickness girlfriends, 1998
- Igraine the Brave, 1998
- Attic stories, illustrations, Wilfried Gebhard. 1998
- Beach stories, 1999
- The Pirate Pig, 1999
- Small Werewolf, 1999
- The lost Wackelzahn, 2000
- Mick and Mo in the Wild West, 2000
- Thief Lord, 2000
- Thickness girlfriends and Horse Thief, 2001
- The mysterious knight Nameless, 2001
- Most Erstlesegeschichten, 2002
- Emma and the Blue Djinn 2002
- Kribbel Krabbelkäfer Weather, 2003
- Read-aloud stories of Anna, 2003
- The Lady Luck, 2003
- The wildest brother in the world, 2004
- Mick and Mo in space, 2004
- Cornelia Funke tells of books eaters, attic ghosts and other heroes, 2004
- Rosanna's big brother, 2005
- Where happiness grows. Illustrated by Regina Kehn. 2008
- The monster from the blue Planet, 2008
- The Lost Angel, 2009
- The books eater, 2011
- Ghost Knight, 2011
Works for media
- The Wild Chicks - Stolen Secrets (CD -ROM ), 2004
- The Wild Chicks and the Hunt for the Ruby Heart ( Nintendo DS ), 2008
- Inkheart (Nintendo DS)
Theater adaptations
- 2004 Inkheart was premiered by the Schauspielhaus Hannover.
- 2004 The Thief Lord was premiered at the Junges Theater Bonn.
- 2004 Potilla was premiered by the Theatre Oberhausen.
- 2005 dragon rider was listed at the Junges Theater Bonn.
- In 2006, the musical was first performed on boys Inkheart Theater Bonn.
- 2007 The Thief Lord was listed on the forest stage Heessen.
- 2007 The good fairy from the THEATER MARIO was first performed as a puppet theater in Germany.
- 2007 When Santa Fell to Earth by the musical ensemble of the town of Hamm premiered.
- 2007 adapted the Augsburger the book When Santa Fell to Earth.
- 2008 Tintentod was premiered by the Schauspielhaus Hannover.
- 2009 Emma and the blue djinn of the Chapeau Claque eV was in the same theater, as in Bamberg.
- 2010 Reckless was: Steinernes meat premiered by the Dresden State Theatre.
- 2012 Ghost Knight was listed Thalia Theater, Hamburg
Films
- 2005: The Wild Chicks
- 2006: The Thief Lord
- 2007: The Wild Chicks in Love
- 2007: Hands off Mississippi
- 2008: Inkheart
- 2009: The Wild Chicks and Life
- 2011: When Santa Fell to Earth
- 2004, the film rights were sold by Dragon Rider to the U.S. film company New Line Cinema.
Exhibitions
- 20 January to 20 May 2013 Cornelia Funke - Inkheart, Wild Chickens and ghost hunters. The fantastic imagery of the early children's books to Reckless, exhibition at the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen