Otfried Preussler

Otfried Preußler first taught pubpils at an elementary school at Rosenheim, then he decided to devote himself entirely to literary writing. Otfried Preußler is one of the best known and most successful authors of children’s and juvenile literature in Germany and the world. His books have a world-wide print-run of about 50 mio. copies in more than 350 translations, some of them like ”The Little Witch” or ”Robber Hotzenplotz” have been translated into more than 50 languages.