Kästner
Americannoun
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Only that the book was written in 1931, by German humorist Erich Kästner.
From Slate • Oct. 4, 2018
Based on a 1929 German children’s book by Erich Kästner, the play offered a moral parable of life in Weimar Germany, with hints of the darkness to come.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2014
It's a remake of a well-known German film from 1931, directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and written by Kästner, Billy Wilder and an uncredited Emeric Pressburger.•
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2013
The last known veterans of the French and German armies in World War I, Lazare Ponticelli and Erich Kästner, died a few months apart in 2008; Harry Patch, the last British soldier, died in 2009.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2011
Born at Erfurt in 1745, he prosecuted legal studies at Göttingen, and there imbibed from Kästner a life-long devotion to science.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
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