This is the fourth year that the International Youth Library Foundation and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) have presented NotenTexte. These children's concerts combine language and…
This is the fourth year that the International Youth Library Foundation and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) have presented NotenTexte. These children's concerts combine language and…
This is the fourth year that the International Youth Library Foundation and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) have presented NotenTexte. These children's concerts combine language and…
The Nationwide Reading Day is an initiative of the Reading Foundation, the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and the Deutsche Bahn Foundation. It is the largest reading aloud festival in Germany. The…
Ali Mitgutsch is considered the father of the wimmelbook, a genre that made him famous. But his body of work is far more extensive. He created more than 70 picture books: wimmelbooks, non-fiction…
James Krüss (1926–1997) is one of the most important German children's authors of the 20th century. Between 1945 and his death in 1997, he created a very diverse and extensive body of work that goes…
The James Krüss Prize for International Children's and Young Adult Literature honours and promotes the work of a children's book author whose texts are characterised by linguistic brilliance,…
The winner of the James Krüss Prize 2026 at Blutenburg Castle!
Anna Woltz, born in London in 1981, grew up in The Hague. At the age of fifteen, she was already writing columns for the newspaper De…
ein Roman von Johannes Herwig | in einer Bühnenfassung von Jessica Pollnau & Swen Lasse Awe | Uraufführung
Leipzig 1936. Die einen träumen vorfreudig vom Krieg, andere haben Angst um das eigene…
Grand birthday celebration with the reopening of the James Krüss Tower
Born on the island of Heligoland in 1926, James Krüss spent formative years in Munich from 1949 to 1966. With the support of…