Henry Winterfeld
Henry Winterfeld ( born April 9, 1901 in Hamburg, † January 27, 1990 in Machias, Maine, USA), pseudonym Manfred Michael and Henry Gilbert, was a German - American writers and artists of international success with his children and had children's books. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1940 and lived until his death in 1990 as a film writer in Roque Bluffs, Washington County, Maine.
Life
Henry Winterfelds father was Jean Gilbert (actually Max Winterfeld ), a German composer and conductor. His brother Robert Gilbert (actually Robert David Winter field) was also a composer and author.
Henry Winterfeld studied after attending a private school music at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin together with Claudio Arrau. He worked as pianist and wrote scenes and plays. In the list of plays performed by the musician, pianist, composer and theater director Rudolf Nelson (1878-1960) is Henry Winterfeld beside Friedrich Hollaender, Hans H. Zerlett, Fritz Rotter and Franz Molnar ( i.e., Ferenc Molnár ) and co-author of the Revue " tombola " (1929 ), called the " Nelson theater Berlin " Hans Albers occurred.
In 1933 invented Henry Winterfeld for his scarlet sick son Thomas Henry Winterfeld ( 1923-2008, oceanographer ) stories with a daily episode. The result was his first book Timpetill - The city without parents, that he under the pseudonym Manfred Michael ( with own papercuts illustrated ) in Zurich at Corrodi published in 1937.
The Nazi regime was due to Henry Winterfeld, the Jew was, emigrated in 1933 to Austria and from there to France in 1938. In October 1939 he was arrested and interned until May 1940 in Nevers. After his release, the family was able to emigrate to the United States before the entry of German troops in May 1940. In 1946 he became an American citizen. Winterfelds niece Marianne Gilbert Finnegan has described in her autobiography, Memories of a hybrid life of emigrated Winter field in the United States.
1953 appeared Winterfelds second book Caius is a fool (English Detectives in togas ) a Roman schoolboy and his adventures. It was followed by two volumes of the still successful today Caius series ( Caius see the light and Caius in the terminal ) and other children 's books.
His works were written mainly in German; they were translated into French, English, Norwegian, Swedish and other languages. The Italian version of Timpetill. La città senza genitori been published yet in 1997 under the pseudonym " Manfred Michael".
The book Timpetill a compulsory read in French schools. Under the title Les Enfants de Timpelbach the book Timpetill was filmed in the second half of 2007 by a French-Belgian- Luxembourg film production with actors Gérard Depardieu and Carole Bouquet. Location was, inter alia, the Eyneburg castle in Hergenrath at Calamine.
Henry Winterfeld was married to Else winter field. She worked as a toy designer and created a patented three-headed doll.
Famous Works
Children and Youth books
- Caius is a fool (novel, 1953), ISBN 3-570-20520-7 (English title: Detectives in Togas, 1956)
- If a girl flown (novel, 1956) (English title: Stargirl, 1957)
- Telegram from Lilliput (novel, 1958) (English title: Castaways in Lilliput, 1960)
- Pimmi ponytail (novel, 1967).
- Caius see the light (novel, 1969), ISBN 3-7645-7866-1 ( engl. Title: Mystery of the Roman Ransom, 1971)
- The Last of the Sekundaner (novel, 1971), ISBN 3-7645-7867- X
- Caius in the terminal (novel, 1976), ISBN 3-570-20349-2, 143 g, 228 pages
Films based on works by Henry Winterfeld
- 2007 - Les enfants de Timpelbach - Director: Nicolas Bary ( with Gérard Depardieu and Carole Bouquet )