Encyclopedia > Erich Kästner

Article Content

Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner (February 23, 1899 - July 29, 1974) is one of the most famous German writers of the 20th century.

He wrote many long time bestseller books for children like Emil and the Detectives and The Little Man and the Little Miss, but he was also a political author. The Nazi regime in Germany burned his books.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Quadratic formula

... term b2 – 4ac is called the discriminant of the quadratic equation, because it discriminates between three qualitatively different cases: If the ...