![]() ![]() ![]() Although he survived the military action on the Eastern Front, he was taken prisoner as a 21-year-old lieutenant in 1944. After he graduated school in 1942, in the midst of World War II, he was drafted into the German Army. They changed their family name from the Czech Syrowatka to the German Preußler in 1941 during the Nazi occupation of the country. His mother Erna Syrowatka, née Tscherwenka, and his father Josef Syrowatka were both teachers. He was born in Liberec (Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill ( Krabat). More than 50 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and they have been translated into 55 languages. Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler both pronounced ( listen) born Otfried Syrowatka 20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013) was a German children's books author. ![]()
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