Author Max Kruse lived recently withdrawn in Penzberg in Weilheim
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08/09/2015 – 00:00 clock
Penzberg – The Urmel cries thick Dino tears. Its inventor, children’s book author Max Kruse, died with 93 years in Penzberg. This was announced by the publisher Thienemann-Esslinger yesterday.
Kruse was the creator of the green, lisping and extremely lovable Urmel. The stories by Dino from the egg, which is washed up on the tropical island Titiwu were sold worldwide, more than 800 000 times. The total circulation is more than three million copies.
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Writers wanted Kruse even as a little boy. “There in my childhood, neither radio nor were even television and the Internet, I knew only books that I devoured,” he said on his 90th birthday.
His artistic parents influenced him: the mother was doll-maker Käthe Kruse, father of the sculptor Max Kruse. For the dolls and stuffed animals of his mother, he also wrote his first, in 1952 published children’s book: “The lion is going on”
More than 50 children’s books has written Kruse.. “Lord Schmetterhemd” and “Don sheet” were filmed as the Urmel with the Augsburger Puppenkiste. But Dino, his friends Professor Habakkuk Tibatong, Penguin Ping, Waran Wawa, pig lady Wutz and the soul-Fant always remained the most popular among viewers.
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