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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 February 1899
- Died
- 29 July 1974
- Conflict
- World War I
- Place of birth
- Dresden
- Place of death
- Munich
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Erich
- Family name
- Kästner
- Father
- Emil Kästner
- Mother
- Ida Kästner
- Child
- Thomas Kästner
- Occupation
- writer, poet, novelist, children's writer, screenwriter, journalist, playwright, cabaret performer, opinion journalist, musician
- Citizenship
- German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, allied-occupied Germany, West Germany, Germany
- Native language
- German
- Awards
- Georg Büchner Prize, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Literary Prize of the State Capital of Munich, Kulturpreis der deutschen Freimaurer, Lessing Ring, honorary golden medal of the state capital Munich
- academic degree
- doctorate
- archives at
- German Literature Archive Marbach, Erich Kästner Kinderdorf, German Literature Archive Marbach
- birth name
- Emil Erich Kästner
- cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Iedereen Leest, ProDetLit, Lexicon van de jeugdliteratuur, Dresdner Hefte
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Leipzig University
- end of work period
- 1974
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Erich Kästner
- notable work
- Emil and the Detectives, The animals' conference, The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas, When I Was a Little Boy, Dot and Anton, Emil and the three twins, The Flying Classroom, Three men in the snow, Lottie and Lisa, The Little Man, Q16132333
- place of burial
- Bogenhausener Friedhof
- pseudonym
- Robert Neuner, Berthold Bürger, Peter Flint
- significant event
- Nazi book burnings
- start of work period
- 1928
- topic's main category
- Category:Erich Kästner
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