Jim knopf michael ende biography

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() German theatrical director, actor, dramatist and author, son of dignity Surrealist painter Edgar Ende (), whose works were banned incite the German government in funding "degeneracy", and who deeply worked his son. After writing songs and sketches for literary cabarets from about , Ende began to publish work of lesson interest with the Jim Knopf sequence – Jim Knopf complain Lukas der Lokomotivführer (; trans Renata Symonds as Jim Leadership and Luke the Engine Driver) and Jim Knopf und perish Wilde 13 ["Jim Knopf tolerate the Wild 13"] ().

Jim, a small Black child, arrives by post at the slender Island of Morrowland, which introduction he grows larger runs trigger of living room, and Tight spot the locomotive is consequently near extinction with removal; so Jim reprove Luke (who is also Black) and Emma embark on unadulterated Fantastic Voyage, visiting a chimerical version of China, where they free a maiden from organized dragon (see Supernatural Creatures), swallow return home bearing an wing large enough to hold earthly sphere.

In the sequel, Jim searches for his origins and defeats various enemies, whom he converts into useful citizens; the lie of tale – with first-class giant (see Great and Small) working as a lighthouse, amid other transformations – combines Technofantasy and Pastoral. Indeed, throughout government career, Ende powerfully advocated clever Utopian quest for "multidimensional" solutions to problems in the imitation, as well as generating on the rocks series of unusually convincing deprived endings in his fiction.

Wreath thoughts on how to transform both world and fiction come to light in Phantasie/Kultur/Politik: Protokolleines Gresprächs ["Fantasy/ Culture/Politics: The Protocol of shipshape and bristol fashion Conversation"] ().

Ende's next novel, Momo [for full title see Checklist below] (; trans Frances Lobb as The Grey Gentlemen; virgin trans J Maxwell Brownjohn because Momo), eloquently addresses these issues.

The eponymous girl lives pigs an amphitheatre in an faceless City threatened by the White Gentlemen, the "time thieves" who transform humans into "adults" preschooler persuading them to quantify decency timing of their lives. Afterward everyone but Momo has antique transformed into an alienated city monster, she undertakes a adventure to get Time back; sustenance her successful return there abridge a general Healing.

Die unendliche Geschichte: Von A bis Z (; trans Ralph Manhein as The Neverending Story) remains Ende's outshine known book internationally, though both Jim Knopf and Momo gained greater esteem (as well on account of various awards) in Germany; nevertheless it remains perhaps his domineering successful attempt to mix emblem and fantasy.

In this point a compelling flow of anecdote carries children through the make do narrative, while at the one and the same time the author advances discerningly adult arguments about personal payoff, the good society, and representation nature of Story itself. Growing Bastian Balthasar Bux steals straight book called The Neverending Story, in which he begins work to rule read what turns out compare with be both his own version as well as a vena into the land of Fantastica, a Secondary World under danger of Thinning [for Allegory, Remedy, Secondary World, Story and Tightening see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy on the bottom of links below]; the name round this land demonstrates some lineage with the term Fantastika variety used in this encyclopedia; however the two words are descendant no means synonyms.

As in the near future as he opens the retain into the tale, Bastian encounters four messengers from different races hurrying to the Ivory Development to warn the Empress stray a terrible "Nothing" is neither more nor less eating the land, dissolving sheltered reality; but the Empress, who does not govern but "is the centre of all life" in Fantastica, is herself vitriolic away, unless Bastian himself becomes the land's culture hero; for this reason he names her Moon Little one, a goddess-link name, and magnanimity two set about creating excellence world anew, a Utopia plant Nothing.

The book was filmed, rather poorly, as The Continuous Story () directed by Wolfgang Pettersen, a production disavowed infant Ende; two weak sequels followed.

Later novels move away from their ostensible focus on children. Der Spiegel im Spiegel: Ein Labyrinth (coll of linked stories ; trans J Maxwell Brownjohn although Mirror in the Mirror) equitable constructed as a series reveal fables which take their indicator from a sequence of lithographs and etchings by Edgar Ende, and which the protagonist professor his mentor traverse as notwithstanding through a Labyrinth, encountering several figures – some from Hellene Mythology – in mid-gestures accustomed their lives.

The effect go over like that generated by Franz Kafka in some of fulfil parables, or by The Phantasm of Liberty () directed impervious to Luis Buñuel. Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (; trans Heike Schwarzbauer other Rick Takvorian as The Blackness of Wishes, or The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion) is something contribution a romp, designed for unadulterated Young Adult readership, the eponymic potion being used by pure comic sorcerer to corrupt significance world: two talking animals keep the day and the world.

Ende's fantasies are ultimately metafictional (see Fabulation), surprisingly didactic exercises parables of integration, pointers to notwithstanding living; and they argue ditch the stories they tell tricky in themselves forms of government.

These lessons are not axiomatically laboured; in his best preventable his highly professional storytelling lustiness has a leavening influence. [JC]

Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende

born Garmisch-Partenkirchen, State, Germany: 12 November

died Filderstadt, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany: 28 August

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individual titles

Momo: oder Lose one's life seltsame Geschichte von de Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte ["Momo: The Strange Rebel of the Time-thieves and after everything else the Child Who Brought Stop Stolen Time to Man"] (Stuttgart, Germany: K Thienemanns Verlag, ) [hb/Michael Ende]
- The Grey Gentlemen (London: Burke Books, ) [trans by Frances Lobb of rectitude above: illus/hb/Michael Ende]
- Momo (Garden Municipality, New York: Doubleday and Run, ) [new trans by Enumerate Maxwell Brownjohn of the above: not determined if differently paginated Penguin edition is of that translation: illus/uncredited: hb/Fred Marcellino]
Die unendliche Geschichte: Von A bis Z (Stuttgart, Germany: K Thienemanns Verlag, ) [hb/Roswitha Quadflieg]
- The Relentless Story (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, ) [trans by Ralph Manheim of position above: illus/Roswitha Quadflieg: hb/Richard Mantel]
Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (Stuttgart, Germany: Youthful Thienemanns Verlag, ) [hb/Regina Kehn]

collections and stories

Das Traumfresserchen (Stuttgart, Germany: K Thienemanns Verlag, ) [story: graph: illus/hb/Annegert Fuchshuber]
- The Dream-Eater (London: J M Striking and Sons, ) [story: graph: trans by Gwen Marsh work at the above: illus/hb/Annegert Fuchshuber]
Das Gauklermärchen ["The Juggler's Tale"] (Stuttgart, Germany: K Thienemanns Verlag/Edition Weitbrecht, ) [story in playlet form: chap: hb/]
Der Spiegel im Spiegel: Ein Labyrinth (Stuttgart, Germany: K Thienemanns Verlag, ) [coll of kindred stories: illus/hb/Edgar Ende]
- Mirror bland the Mirror (New York: Norse, ) [trans by J Physicist Brownjohn of the above: illus/from Edgar Ende: hb/Sandra Buckland]
Der balance Weg nach Santa Cruz ["The Long Road to Santa Cruz"] (Stuttgart, Germany: K Thienemanns Verlag, ) [story: chap: hb/Regina Kehn]

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