Ende, Michael/ Hechelmann, Friedrich
Ophelias Schattentheater

Thienemann (2008)
ISBN 9783522435987

Ophelia used to work in the theatre prompting actors. Now the theatre has closed and Ophelia has taken up with shadows that don’t belong to anyone. She teaches them the works of the great poets.

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Erlbruch, Wolf
Das Bärenwunder

24 pages, Peter Hammer Verlag (2005)
ISBN 9783872948267

As the bear awakes from his winter sleep he experiences a feeling he’d never had before. Lonely, he suddenly has a yearning for a life companion and children. So he embarkes on a quest to learn from other animals how to start a family.

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Erlbruch, Wolf
Ente, Tod und Tulpe
32 pages, Kunstmann (2007)
ISBN 9783888974618

Sooner or later every child asks quite frankly about death. In Wolfgang Erlbruch’s Ducks, Death and Tulips Death is fleet-footed companion – always present but not noticed.
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Eugen Ruge wins the German Book Prize 2011

His novel “In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts” is an autobiographical story of an East German family and his incredible literary debut.