His Urmel stories have shaped generations of children – now the children’s book author Max Kruse died at the age of 93 years.
The children’s book author Max Kruse, inventor of Urmel is dead. Kruse died on September 4 at the age of 93 years. “The Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag mourns a great author,” it said on Monday in an announcement of his Stuttgarter publisher. Previously, the “Münchner Merkur” and the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported about the death of the writer.
Kruse lived most recently in the Upper Bavarian Penzberg. His Urmel, a small, whispering dinosaur hatches after millions of years from a frozen egg and on the island Titiwu finds a home with Professor Habakkuk Tibatong, was one of the most successful stars of the Augsburg Puppet Theatre and a classic of children’s literature. The stories of Urmel and his friends have been sold worldwide, more than 800 000 times.
The total circulation of his books is by publishing information in more than three million copies. The books have been translated into Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Catalan, Korean, translated Russian and Swedish. In 2000, Kruse was honored for his life’s work with the big prize of the German Academy for Children’s Literature.
“With Max Kruse, the German Children’s Literature loses an author who has influenced an entire generation of readers,” wrote his publisher. “About his imaginative figures – from” Lölölölöwen “about Don sheet and Lord Schmetterhemd to Urmel and his classmates in the school of Professor Habakkuk Tibatong on the small Pacific island Titiwu – he has told many entertaining and at the same time wise and enigmatic stories.”
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