47-464: Berggruen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), German art dealer Nicolas Berggruen (born 1961), American/German investor Olivier Berggruen (born 1963), German-American art historian and curator See also [ edit ] Berggruen Prize Berggruen Institute Berggruen Museum [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
94-598: A (non-existent) film, Das falsche Gesicht (The Wrong Face). The actual purpose of the journey was to avoid the final Soviet assault on Berlin. Kästner had also received a warning that the SS planned to kill him and other Nazi opponents before arrival of the Soviets. He was in Mayrhofen when the war ended. He wrote about this period in a diary published in 1961 under the title Notabene 45 . Another edition, closer to Kästner's original notes,
141-638: A German from Dresden in Saxony My homeland won't let me go I'm like a tree that, grown in Germany, Will likely wither there also. The Gestapo interrogated Kästner several times, the national writers' guild expelled him, and the Nazis burned his books as "contrary to the German spirit" during the book burnings of 10 May 1933, instigated by Joseph Goebbels . Kästner witnessed the event in person and later wrote about it. He
188-548: A Little Boy ). According to Kästner, he did not suffer from being an only child , had many friends, and was not lonely or overindulged. In 1913, Kästner entered a teacher training school in Dresden. However, he dropped out in 1916 shortly before completing the exams that would have qualified him to teach in state schools. He was drafted into the Royal Saxon Army in 1917 and was trained at a heavy artillery unit in Dresden. Kästner
235-633: A businessman who owned an office supply business before the war, and Antonie (née Zadek). He attended the Goethe-Gymnasium in Wilmersdorf and graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelms (now Humboldt) University in 1932, where he read literature. After 1933, he continued his studies at the universities of Grenoble and Toulouse. He contributed free-lance articles to the Frankfurter Zeitung ,
282-506: A freelance correspondent. Kästner later used several other pseudonyms, including "Melchior Kurtz", "Peter Flint", and "Robert Neuner". Kästner's years in Berlin, from 1927 until the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933, were his most productive. He published poems, newspaper columns, articles, and reviews in many of Berlin's important periodicals. He was a regular contributor to dailies such as
329-669: A hairstylist in order to supplement her husband's income. Kästner had a particularly close relationship with his mother. When he was living in Leipzig and Berlin , he wrote her fairly intimate letters and postcards almost every day, and overbearing mothers make regular appearances in his writings. It has been rumored that Erich Kästner's natural father was the family's Jewish doctor, Emil Zimmermann (1864–1953), but these rumors have never been substantiated. Kästner wrote about his childhood in his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war [ de ] (1957, translated as When I Was
376-496: A lament for Dresden (quoted from the English translation, When I Was a Little Boy ): "I was born in the most beautiful city in the world. Even if your father, child, was the richest man in the world, he could not take you to see it, because it does not exist any more. ... In a thousand years was her beauty built, in one night was it utterly destroyed." After the end of the war, Kästner moved to Munich , where he became culture editor for
423-595: A member of NATO , and rearmed it for possible military conflict with the Warsaw Pact . Kästner remained a pacifist and spoke out at anti-militarist demonstrations against the nuclear weapons in West Germany. Later, he also took firm stand against the Vietnam War . Kästner began to publish less and less, partly because of his increasing alcoholism. He did not join any of the post-war literary movements in West Germany, and in
470-556: A newspaper, the Neue Leipziger Zeitung . However, his increasingly critical reviews, and the "frivolous" publication of his erotic poem "Abendlied des Kammervirtuosen" (Evening Song of the Chamber Virtuoso) with illustrations by Erich Ohser , led to his dismissal in 1927. That same year, he moved to Berlin, although he continued to write for the Neue Leipziger Zeitung under the pseudonym "Berthold Bürger" ("Bert Citizen") as
517-537: A pacifist satire in which the world's animals unite to successfully force humans to disarm and make peace. This picture book was made into an animated film [ de ] by Curt Linda. Kästner also renewed his collaboration with Edmund Nick , whom he had met in Leipzig in 1929, when Nick, then Head of the Music Department at Radio Silesia, wrote the music for Kästner's radio play Leben in dieser Zeit . Nick, now
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#1733085371693564-562: A unique group of 85 works by Picasso. In 1977, Berggruen published Douglas Cooper 's catalogue raisonné of Juan Gris . He finally resigned as director of the Paris gallery in 1980 in order to devote himself to collecting and dealing. In 1988, he donated 90 Klee works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, although he later expressed fear that his donation would go unnoticed in
611-581: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Heinz Berggruen Heinz Berggruen (January 6, 1914 – February 23, 2007) was a German and American art dealer and collector who sold 165 works of art to the German federal government to form the core of the Berggruen Museum in Berlin, Germany. He was the father of John , Olivier and Nicolas Berggruen . Berggruen was born in Wilmersdorf , Berlin to Jewish parents: Ludwig Berggruen,
658-736: The Berliner Tageblatt and the Vossische Zeitung , as well as to Die Weltbühne . Hans Sarkowicz and Franz Josef Görtz, the editors of his complete works (1998), list over 350 articles written between 1923 and 1933, but he must have written even more, since many texts are known to have been lost when Kästner's flat burned down during a bombing raid in February 1944. Kästner published his first book of poems, Herz auf Taille , in 1928, and by 1933 he had published three more collections. His Gebrauchslyrik ( Lyrics for Everyday Use ) made him one of
705-762: The Neue Zeitung and publisher of Pinguin [ de ] , a magazine for children and young people. He was also active in literary cabaret , in productions at the Schaubude (1945–1948) and Die kleine Freiheit (after 1951), and in radio. During this time, he wrote a number of skits , songs, audio plays, speeches , and essays about National Socialism , the war years, and the stark realities of life in post-war Germany. Most notable among these works are Marschlied 1945 and Deutsches Ringelspiel . He also continued to write children's books, including Die Konferenz der Tiere [ de ] ( The Animals' Conference ),
752-628: The San Francisco Chronicle , in 1939 he became an "assistant to the director" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . There, he helped to prepare an exhibition about the Mexican painter Diego Rivera . Later, in New York in 1940, he met Frida Kahlo with whom he had a short love affair. That same year he says that he bought his first picture for $ 100 while honeymooning in Chicago. It
799-572: The Abitur exam with distinction, earning a scholarship from the city of Dresden. In the autumn of 1919, Kästner enrolled at the University of Leipzig to study history, philosophy, German studies, and theater. His studies took him to Rostock and Berlin, and in 1925 he received a doctorate for a thesis on Frederick the Great and German literature. He paid for his studies by working as a journalist and critic for
846-687: The Berlin Philharmonic . In 2016, Berggruen's Klee collection was exhibited in its entirety to inaugurate the Met Breuer , and traveled to the National Gallery of Canada in 2018. Berggruen was married twice and had four children. Berggruen, who until his death maintained homes in Paris, Gstaad , and Berlin (and in Geneva and New York before that), was quoted as saying "I am neither French nor German, I am European. I'd very much like to think there
893-744: The Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, and for the radio, for which he read Als ich ein kleiner Junge war and other works. Kästner died of esophageal cancer on 29 July 1974 in the Neuperlach Hospital in Munich. He was buried in the St. George cemetery in the Bogenhausen district of Munich. Shortly after his death, the Bavarian Academy of Arts established a literary prize in his name. Many streets in Germany and
940-655: The Hans Christian Andersen Award for Als ich ein kleiner Junge war , his autobiography. The English translation by Florence and Isabel McHugh, published as When I Was a Little Boy in 1959, won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961. Kästner received several other awards, including the Filmband in Gold for best screenplay for the German film version of Das doppelte Lottchen (1950), the literary prize of
987-414: The surname Berggruen . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berggruen&oldid=973806210 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#17330853716931034-439: The 1950s and 1960s he came to be perceived mainly as an author of children's books. His novel Fabian was made into a movie in 1980, as were several of his children's books. The most popular of these adaptations are Disney 's 1961 American film The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills and its 1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan , both based on his novel Das doppelte Lottchen ( Lisa and Lottie ). In 1960, Kästner received
1081-570: The German government lent him an apartment in Berlin and gave him an art museum opposite the Charlottenburg Palace . The collection, then comprising 118 works, opened to the public in 1997. At the time, then German culture minister Ulrich Roloff-Momin described it as "the most meaningful art transfer in Berlin's post-war history." In 2000, he finally sold the art collection to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation :
1128-533: The Musical Director at the Schaubude, set more than 60 of Kästner's songs to music. Kästner's optimism in the immediate post-war era gave way to resignation as Germans in the West attempted to normalize their lives following the economic reforms of the early 1950s and the ensuing "economic miracle" (" Wirtschaftswunder "). He became further disillusioned as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer remilitarized West Germany, made it
1175-403: The cinema several times: in 1954 by Kurt Hoffmann , in 1973 by Werner Jacobs and in 2003 [ de ] by Tomy Wigand [ de ] . In 1932 Kästner wrote Der 35. Mai (The 35th of May) , which is set in a fantasy land entered via a wardrobe and includes futuristic features such as mobile phones. Gerhard Lamprecht 's film version of Emil und die Detektive (1931)
1222-776: The city of Munich in 1956, and the Georg Büchner Prize in 1957. The government of West Germany honored Kästner with its order of merit, the Bundesverdienstkreuz ( Federal Cross of Merit ), in 1959. In 1968 he received the Lessing-Ring [ de ] together with the literary prize of the German Masonic Order . In 1951, Kästner was elected President of the PEN Center of West Germany, and he remained in office until 1961. In 1965 he became President Emeritus. He
1269-739: The collection of 165 works (including 85 Picassos), which Berggruen valued at €750m, was purchased by the PCHF at about a quarter of that value. It additionally includes over sixty works by Paul Klee, and twenty by Matisse. For his achievements, Berggruen was named a Commandeur of the Legion of Honour by the French government, received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1999, and
1316-720: The fine arts division of UNESCO , run by his former boss at the San Francisco museum, Grace Morley. Within a few years, he opened a small bookshop on the Île Saint-Louis , specializing in illustrated books and later lithographs. During this time he became acquainted with Tristan Tzara , who introduced him to Pablo Picasso in Paris. He soon became an important dealer in Picasso prints, as well as in second-hand Picasso paintings. His renowned art collection, which he valued at $ 450 million in 2001, included 165 works by 20th-century masters such as Braque , Matisse , Klee , and Giacometti , with
1363-490: The forerunner of today's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . He got around the restrictions on Jewish contributors by submitting his pieces through a colleague and signing them with his initials, H. B., rather than his full, Jewish-sounding surname. He fled Germany in 1936. Berggruen immigrated to the United States in 1936 and studied German literature at University of California, Berkeley . After working as an art critic for
1410-626: The leading figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, which focused on using a sobering, distant and objective style to satirise contemporary society. In the autumn of 1928, he published his best-known children's book, Emil und die Detektive , illustrated by Walter Trier . The owner of the Weltbühne publishing house, Edith Jacobsen, had suggested the idea of writing a detective story to Kästner. The book sold two million copies in Germany alone and has since been translated into 59 languages. The novel
1457-748: The museum's own vast collections. The donation "made the Metropolitan the second most important Klee repository in the world, after the Kunstmuseum in Klee's native Switzerland," according to Michael Gross. That same year, he exhibited his collection at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva. In 1990, he lent a good part of his collection to the National Gallery in London, where he exhibited works—including Seurat's landmark painting Les Poseuses (1886)—until 2001. In 1995,
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1504-477: The screenplay for Münchhausen , using the pseudonym Berthold Bürger. The film was a prestige project by Ufa Studios to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its establishment, an enterprise backed by Goebbels. In 1944, Kästner's home in Berlin was destroyed during a bombing raid. In early 1945, he and others pretended that they had to travel to the rural community of Mayrhofen in Tyrol for location shooting for
1551-648: The signatories to the Urgent Call for Unity . However, unlike many other authors critical of the dictatorship, Kästner did not go into exile. After the Nazis' rise to power, he visited Merano and Switzerland and met with exiled writers, yet he returned to Berlin, arguing that there he would be better able to chronicle events. It is probable that he also wanted to avoid abandoning his mother. His Necessary Answer to Superfluous Questions ( Notwendige Antwort auf überflüssige Fragen ) in Kurz und Bündig explains Kästner's position: I'm
1598-498: The subgenre of literature about child detectives. Emil und die Detektive has been adapted for the cinema five times, three of them in Germany: in 1931, 1935 (UK), 1954, 1964 (USA) and 2001. Kästner followed this success with Pünktchen und Anton (1931) and Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (1933). Walter Trier 's illustration significantly contributed to the books' overwhelming popularity. Das fliegende Klassenzimmer has been adapted for
1645-574: The times as well as the downfall of the Weimar Republic . From 1927 until 1931, Kästner lived at Prager Straße 17 (today near no. 12) in Berlin–; Wilmersdorf and after that, until February 1945, at Roscherstraße 16 in Berlin- Charlottenburg . Kästner was a pacifist and wrote for children because of his belief in the regenerative powers of youth. He resisted the Nazi regime and was one of
1692-782: Was a European nationality, but I think I may be dreaming." Through his mother, Antonie Zadek, Berggruen was a cousin of the opera singer Hilde Zadek (1917–2019). Berggruen died at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 23 February 2007. At his own wish he was buried in the forest cemetery in Waldfriedhof Dahlem , in Berlin. His funeral was attended by German chancellor Angela Merkel , and then-president Horst Köhler , among others. Erich K%C3%A4stner Emil Erich Kästner ( German: [ˈʔeːʁɪç ˈkɛstnɐ] ; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974)
1739-597: Was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist , known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie . He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war [ de ] . He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in six separate years. Kästner
1786-475: Was a great success. Kästner, however, was dissatisfied with the screenplay, and that led him to become a screenwriter for the Babelsberg film studios. Kästner's only major adult novel, Fabian (Roman) [ de ] , was published in 1931. Kästner included rapid cuts and montages in it, in an attempt to mimic cinematic style. Fabian, an unemployed literary expert, experiences the uproariously fast pace of
1833-629: Was a watercolour by Paul Klee , and he bought it from a Jewish refugee in need of money. While living in California, Berggruen was a student of the painter David Park . After the Second World War Berggruen returned to Europe as member of the U.S. Army and worked briefly on the American-sponsored paper Heute in Munich (located in the same building where the novelist Erich Kästner worked). He then moved to Paris, where he worked in
1880-498: Was also instrumental in the founding of the Internationale Jugendbibliothek , a library in Munich that collects and preserves children's and youth books from all over the world. In 1953 he was founding member of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People). Kästner never married. He wrote his last two children's books, Der kleine Mann and Der kleine Mann und die kleine Miss , for his son Thomas Kästner, who
1927-576: Was born in Dresden , Saxony , and grew up on Königsbrücker Straße in Dresden's Äußere Neustadt . Close by, the Erich Kästner Museum was subsequently opened in the Villa Augustin that had belonged to Kästner's uncle Franz Augustin. Kästner's father, Emil Richard Kästner, was a master saddlemaker . His mother, Ida Amalia (née Augustin), had been a maidservant, but in her thirties she trained as
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1974-420: Was born in 1957. Kästner frequently read from his works. In the 1920s, he recorded some of his poems of social criticism and in some of the films based on his books he performed as the narrator, as he did for the first audio production of Pünktchen und Anton . Other recordings for Deutsche Grammophon include poems, epigrams, and his version of the folk tale Till Eulenspiegel . He also read in theaters, such as
2021-423: Was denied membership of the new Nazi-controlled national writers' guild, Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller (RDS), because of what its officials called the "culturally Bolshevist attitude in his writings prior to 1933." During the Third Reich , Kästner published apolitical novels such as Drei Männer im Schnee ( Three Men in the Snow ) (1934) in Switzerland. In 1942, he received a special exemption to write
2068-405: Was named an honorary citizen of Berlin. He additionally received the Jewish Museum Berlin 's Award for Understanding and Tolerance in 2005, and was bestowed an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Adelphi University in 1993. In 2008, a Berlin school was named the Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium in his honor. An honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum, he additionally served on the board of
2115-403: Was not sent to the front, but the brutality of the military training he underwent and the death of contemporaries he experienced strongly influenced his later antimilitarism . The merciless drilling he was subjected to by his drill sergeant also caused a lifelong heart condition. Kästner portrays this in his poem Sergeant Waurich . After the end of the war, Kästner went back to school and passed
2162-440: Was published in 2006 under the title Das Blaue Buch (The Blue Book). In his diary for 1945, published many years later, Kästner describes his shock at arriving in Dresden shortly after the bombing of the city in World War II (February 1945) and finding it a pile of ruins in which he could recognize none of the streets or landmarks among which he had spent his childhood. His autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war includes
2209-427: Was unusual in that, in contrast to most children's literature of the period, it is set in contemporary Berlin and not in a fairy-tale world. Kästner also refrained from overt moralising, letting the characters' actions speak for themselves. Its sequel, Emil und die Drei Zwillinge (1933; Emil and the Three Twins ) takes place on the shores of the Baltic . The Emil books may have influenced the creation of other books in
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