Emil and the Detectives
work by Kästner
Also known as: “Emil und die Detektive”
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discussed in biography
- In Erich Kästner
…Emil und die Detektive (1929; Emil and the Detectives), was several times dramatized and filmed. Prevented by the Nazis from publishing in Germany (1933–45), he printed his works in Switzerland. After the war, Kästner became magazine editor of Die Neue Zeitung of Munich and subsequently founded a children’s paper. From…
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place in children’s literature
- In children’s literature: War and beyond
Erich Kästner’s Emil and the Detectives (1929) ranked not only as a work of art, presenting city boys with humour and sympathy, but as an immediate classic in an entirely new field, the juvenile detective story (Mark Twain’s awkward Tom Sawyer, Detective [1896] may be ignored). Kästner,…
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