With 94 years: Pumuckl inventor Ellis Kaut died – THE WORLD

A little leprechaun made her famous. The author Ellis Kaut created more than 50 years ago the redheaded Klabautermann Pumuckl which drives since in radio plays, television shows and books his pranks. At the age of 94 years, the inventor of the small Quälgeisters died early Thursday morning after a long illness in a nursing home near Munich.

Until recently Kaut had pursued as it “their” Kobold was to – and its slimming had her did not like. “Beastly” she had the slender Kobold found told her daughter Uschi Bagnall.

Pumuckls belly

The Stuttgarter Kosmos-Verlag publishing house had let the hero for a new edition of modern drawing, without making concrete specifications. The illustrator had then sportier and sleeker designed it – and thus triggered indignant reactions of the fans. It quickly became clear that Pumuckl gets back his belly

90th birthday had wished Kaut. “Health – and that all live as long as I, so I see no one to die ‘. ” The Stuttgart-born children’s author was well into old age active.

So it was for her no question that she answered a major chunk of fan letters electronically via email , And at their hobby photograph she had long since switched to digital technology. They regularly met with other photographers in the “Secession Munich Lichtbildner”. And were still occasionally children suddenly on their doorstep in Munich’s Obermenzing and wanted an autograph. “I do not know what to do with the many people with all the signatures,” said Kaut wondered. Often they will also be recognized by people on the street. “Then people are cheerful. They are beginning to tell me stories from Pumuckl.”

generations have grown up in Germany with “Pumuckl” , Not and even in China

Pumuckl the only work

Pumuckl was not the only work of the versatile artist. For the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), the trained actress and sculptor wrote hundreds of articles for school radio and women’s magazine. A success story were next Pumuckl the 120 stories of “hangover Musch”. In addition, operating “Uli gremlins” – full name Ulimantulus Irrichmich – in the 70s and 80s, his “mischief” in spelling fibulae West German students. He twisted letters, steel punctuation or words – the children had to correct the errors

In order for children in the future “Pumuckl”, “Kater Musch”. and many other stories to read and at the same time make as few errors, Kaut called years ago a foundation for the promotion of reading and children’s literature to life, which they handed over later to the International Youth Library in Munich. Reading can be learned an incredible amount, they argued.

At times, worked Kaut 16 hours a day. Only in 2009 with the publication of her autobiography “Only I I say to myself” she put the pen down definitively. You’ve still plenty to do, she said a little later. However, they vertrödele a lot of time. “But it’s nice when you can say then:” You can “- the motto of the normally available on any of these liver sausages.” The aging was “not very easy,” she said. But: “I’m quite curious about what’s coming.”

with their stories, with Pumuckl and with her foundation, Ellis Kaut remains immortal. “Pumuckl” is repeatedly broadcast on television. Generations of children are likely to continue reading in the digital age, the story of the red-haired imp. And sure, people will continue plagued by Kauts gremlins Ulimantulus Irrichmich, although his name is perhaps forgotten.

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