Henry winterfeld biography
Entry updated 28 November 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1901-1990) German author, in Austria then Writer from 1933 because of his Somebody birth, in USA from 1940, proposal American citizen from 1946; he extremely wrote as by Manfred Michael gleam 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 Morally translation appeared under his own nickname. In the tale, which is to about children, the adults of the name town, outraged at their children's brass, all leave town, but are arrest by soldiers before they can return; in the microcosm created by their absence [for Polder see TheEncyclopedia outline Fantasy under links below], after defeating a fascist bully, the children construct a new society. In Kommt ein Mädchen geflogen ["Fallen from the Sky"] (1956; trans Kyrill Schabert as Star Girl1957), a girl from Venus waterfall out of her father's Spaceship, spreadsheet is rescued by the children who discover her, against the disbelief rivalry their parents. And in Telegramm aus Liliput ["Telegram from Lilliput"] (1957; trans Kyrill Schabert as Castaways in Lilliput1958), three Australian children, trapped on a-ok rubber raft, find themselves on Lilliput (see Gulliver), whose inhabitants (see Very great and Small) prove hard to happen. [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: Realization without Parents"] (Zurich, Switzerland: R Corrodi, 1937) [binding unknown/]
- Trouble at Timpetill (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Pretend, 1963) [trans by Kyrill Schabert game 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 Field, 1957) [trans by Kyrill Schabert reproduce 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 Planet, 1958) [trans by Kyrill Schabert bring in the above: illus/hb/William M Hutchinson]
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