Henny Koch (22 September 1854 – 13 June 1925) was a translator and a German children's author. She was born in

Alsfeld Alsfeld () is a town in the center of Hesse, in Germany. Located about north of Frankfurt, Alsfeld is in the center of Hesse and part of the densely populated Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. It is well known for its well-preserved old ...

, Grand Duchy of Hesse. From 1898 on, she lived in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße in Hessia, Germany, where she died in 1925. She produced the first German translation of Mark Twain's

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' or as it is known in more recent editions, ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United St ...

in 1890. Henny Koch wrote 29 books, mainly for young girls. Her books were published in eight countries. Her most successful work was a series of novels, beginning with Papas Junge, in which you can accompany the protagonist through her life as a young girl, a mother and grandmother. A film has been made based on this novel

Il birichino di papà ''Il birichino di papà'' ("''The fluffy dad''") is a 1942 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film written and directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is an adaptation of the 1905 novel ''Papas Junge'' by Henny Koch. Cast * Armando Falconi as Leop ...

, Italy, 1943, directed by

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with music by

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Works

Children's Books

*1901 ''Mein Sonnenstrahl'' *1902 ''Das Mägdlein aus der Fremde'' *1904 ''Rose Maries Weg zum Glück'' *1905 ''Papas Junge'' *1905 ''Die Traut'' *1906 ''Mütterchen Sylvia'' *1907 ''Allerlei Lustiges für unsere Buben und Mädels'' *1907 ''Irrwisch'' *1908 ''Aus großer Zeit'' *1908 ''Die ins Leben lachen'' *1909 ''Friedel Polten und ihre Rangen'' *1910 ''Kleine Geschichten für kleine Leute'' *1911 ''Evchen der Eigensinn'' *1911 ''Das Komteßchen'' *1912 ''Im Lande der Blumen'' *1914 ''Ein tapferes Mädchen'' *1916 ''Die Vollrads in Südwest'' *1916 ''Die Patentochter des alten Fritz'' *1916 ''Wildes Lorle'' *1917 ''Die verborgene Handschrift'' *1917 ''Aus sonnigen Tagen'' *1919 ''Klein Großchen'' *1921 ''Glory'' *1922 ''Von der Lach-Els und anderen'' *1922 ''Jungfer Ursel'' *1924 ''Das Heiterlein'' *1925 ''Hochgeborene'' *1930 ''Wir fünf''

External links

Official website
(in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Koch, Henny 1854 births 1925 deaths People from Alsfeld People from the Grand Duchy of Hesse 19th-century German women writers 20th-century German women writers German children's writers German translators German women children's writers