Henry Winterfeld (April 9, 1901 – January 27, 1990), published under the pseudonym Manfred Michael, was a German writer and artist famous for his children's and young adult novels. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1940 and lived there until his death.
Henry Winterfeld was married to Elsie Winterfeld, who was a designer of toys and created a patented three-faced doll.
Biography
Henry Winterfeld began his career as a writer in 1933, when he wrote to entertain his son, Thomas Henry Winterfeld (1923–2008, an oceanographer), who was young and sick with scarlet fever. The result was Henry Winterfeld's first book, ''Trouble at Timpetill'', which was published in 1937 in German under the pseudonym Manfred Michael.
He wrote many books aimed at children. These books have been translated into various languages. A couple have been made into videos, such as the movie ''Les enfants de Timpelbach'' (English: ''
Trouble at Timpetill
''Trouble at Timpetill'' (french: Les Enfants de Timpelbach) is a 2008 French fantasy adventure film written and directed by Nicolas Bary, based on the novel of the same name by Henry Winterfeld.
The film won the TFO Prize for Best Youth Film at ...
'') (2008).
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Because of the Nazi
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regime in Germany, Henry Winterfeld, who was a Jew, moved to Austria in 1933 and from there emigrated to France in 1938. In October, 1939, he was arrested and interned in Nevers
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until he was able to emigrate to the United States before the German invasion of France
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* the 1746 War of the Austrian Succession, Austria-Italian forces supported by the British navy attemp ...
began on May 10, 1940. In 1946, he became an American citizen. Winterfeld's niece, Marianne Gilbert Finnegan, describes the life of the Winterfelds in the United States in her autobiography ''Memories of a Mischling
(; " mix-ling"; plural: ) was a pejorative legal term used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of mixed "Aryan" and non-Aryan, such as Jewish, ancestry as codified in the Nuremberg racial laws of 1935. In German, the word has the general denota ...
: Becoming an American''.[Parts of this section were translated by computer from the German Wikipedia entry and summarized.]
Bibliography
* ''Timpetill – Die Stadt ohne Eltern'' (1937), translated as ''Trouble at Timpetill'' (1963)
References
External links
List of Books by Winterfeld
at Scholastic Teachers
Marianne Gilbert Finnegan
(Winterfeld's niece) – about her books
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''Detectives in Togas'' by Henry Winterfeld - review
, Pheebz, ''The Guardian
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'', 4 February 2013
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1901 births
1990 deaths
20th-century German novelists
American children's writers
German children's writers
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
Jewish American writers
Writers from Hamburg
People from Machias, Maine
Writers from Maine
German male novelists
20th-century German male writers
20th-century American Jews