Lisa Tetzner (1894–1963)
Author of The Black Brothers
About the Author
Image credit: www.kjoek.nl
Series
Works by Lisa Tetzner
War Paul schuldig?: Kindheit und Jugend im Dritten Reich (Lesehefte fur den Literaturunterricht) (German Edition) (1945) 6 copies
Vom Märchenbaum der Welt 2 copies
The Children from Number 67 2 copies
All världens vackra sagor 2 copies
Soe en Agaleia 2 copies
Die Kinder aus Nr. 67 2 copies
Los hermanos negros, Vol. 2 1 copy
Los hermanos negros, Vol. 1 1 copy
Im blauen Wagen durch Deutschland Gedanken u. Plaudereien über Landschaft u. Volk von Lisa Tetzner 1 copy
Terdampar ke sebuah pulau 1 copy
Lisa Tetzner's Sprookjesboek 1 copy
Piccoletto 1 copy
Kom med ut i världen! 1 copy
Het huis op de heuvel 1 copy
Vi i 67:an 1 copy
De kleine Soe uit Afrika 1 copy
Hans Sees the World 1 copy
Het zwervende schip 1 copy
Erwin gaat naar Zweden 1 copy
Associated Works
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) — Translator, some editions — 53,792 copies, 852 reviews
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- Canonical name
- Tetzner, Lisa
- Legal name
- Tetzner, Lisa
- Birthdate
- 1894-11-10
- Date of death
- 1963-07-02
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- children's book author
radio producer
teacher
fairy tale writer - Relationships
- Held, Kurt (pen name husband)
- Short biography
- Lisa Tetzner was born to a middle-class German family in in Zittau (Lausitz), the daughter of a doctor. She had a special interest in collecting and writing fairy tales. In 1924, she married Kurt Kläber, a writer who used the pseudonym Kurt Held. She began writing books for children after World War I. She also worked as a teacher and produced a radio program called "Children's Hour" for the Berlin Broadcast Service during the late 1920s. With her husband, she co-authored the nine-volume series Children from No. 67 (1933-1949). In 1933, to escape persecution from the Nazi regime in Germany, Tetzner and Held, who was Jewish and a Communist, fled to exile in Switzerland; they lived there the rest of their lives. Among their other joint works was the classic Black Brothers: A Novel in Pictures (1941), translated into English in 2004.
- Nationality
- Deutschland (Geburt)
Deutschland (Ausbürgerung, 1938)
Schweiz (Einbürgerung, 1948) - Birthplace
- Zittau, Germany
- Places of residence
- Carona, Switzerland
- Place of death
- Carona, Switzerland
- Map Location
- Germany
Switzerland
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Reviews
When the man with the scar comes to the small mountain village, thirteen-year-old Giorgio does not know that this is the end of his childhood. Poverty-stricken, his father has no choice: he sells Giorgio to the man with the scar, who takes the boy to work as a chimneysweep in the city. It's a hard life: the dark, narrow chimneys are full of dangers, Giorgio faces cruel treatment at his master's house, and gang fights in the street. But Giorgio still has his friend Alfredo and their secret show more society, The Black Brothers.
The Black brothers takes you back to the middle of the 19th century, to a time when poor farmers from Ticino sold their children across the Swiss-Italian border to work as "living broomsticks" in the chimneys of Milan. Not everyone survived.
This book has amazing pictures and I really liked this book. Giorgio has his ups and downs and lives a hard life as a chimneysweep, being teased by children because he's a chimneysweep and having to live with a cruel master, getting into fights with gangs but finding friendship in the master's daughter and a local doctor. 4 stars. Recommended.
Published in 1941, Lisa and her husband chose her name to write under because he was Jewish and not allowed to publish. Sad times show less
The Black brothers takes you back to the middle of the 19th century, to a time when poor farmers from Ticino sold their children across the Swiss-Italian border to work as "living broomsticks" in the chimneys of Milan. Not everyone survived.
This book has amazing pictures and I really liked this book. Giorgio has his ups and downs and lives a hard life as a chimneysweep, being teased by children because he's a chimneysweep and having to live with a cruel master, getting into fights with gangs but finding friendship in the master's daughter and a local doctor. 4 stars. Recommended.
Published in 1941, Lisa and her husband chose her name to write under because he was Jewish and not allowed to publish. Sad times show less
Very interesting story but this printing/translation was rough. Worth the effort though.
Quizá sea porque cuando estudiaba Historia casi nunca llegamos al siglo XIX o más allá, el caso es que leer esta novela hablando de esclavitud infantil en Suiza e Italia me ha conmovido. Niños vendidos en Tesino (Suiza) para trabajar como deshonilladores en Milán.
El original se publicó en 1941 y hacia 1991 Hannes Binder lo convierte en una novela en imágenes. Lo Niños Negros era el nombre de una sociedad secreta de jóvenes deshollinadores.
El protagonista es Giorgio y es vendido show more cuando la pobreza de su familia ya no puede ir más lejos. El maestro Rossi es su dueño y quien le enseña el oficio, pero su mujer es una auténtica arpía. El Cicatriz es el proveedor, un verdadero desgraciado.
Me ha gustado. En contra sólo señalar que el texto parece a veces dar saltos o que cuesta encontrar el sentido. Sólo son unos muy pequeños atranques.
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Binder, Hannes. Los Hermanos Negros : novela gráfica / Hannes Binder, Lisa Tetzner ; [traducción de Eduardo Martínez]. -- 1ª ed. -- Santa Marta de Tormes (Salamanca) : Lóguez, 2007. -- 142 p. : principalmente il. ; 25 cm. -- Traducción de: Die Schwarzen Brüder. -- ISBN 978-84-96646-16-2
I. Tetzner, Lisa
821.112.2-31"19" show less
El original se publicó en 1941 y hacia 1991 Hannes Binder lo convierte en una novela en imágenes. Lo Niños Negros era el nombre de una sociedad secreta de jóvenes deshollinadores.
El protagonista es Giorgio y es vendido show more cuando la pobreza de su familia ya no puede ir más lejos. El maestro Rossi es su dueño y quien le enseña el oficio, pero su mujer es una auténtica arpía. El Cicatriz es el proveedor, un verdadero desgraciado.
Me ha gustado. En contra sólo señalar que el texto parece a veces dar saltos o que cuesta encontrar el sentido. Sólo son unos muy pequeños atranques.
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Binder, Hannes. Los Hermanos Negros : novela gráfica / Hannes Binder, Lisa Tetzner ; [traducción de Eduardo Martínez]. -- 1ª ed. -- Santa Marta de Tormes (Salamanca) : Lóguez, 2007. -- 142 p. : principalmente il. ; 25 cm. -- Traducción de: Die Schwarzen Brüder. -- ISBN 978-84-96646-16-2
I. Tetzner, Lisa
821.112.2-31"19" show less
Jag hade inte läst originalet när jag hittade denna grafiska roman, en genre som jag är mycket förtjust i. Bilderna är verkligen helt fantastiska och det är en fin läsupplevelse. Men berättelsen känns lite stympad och innehåller en del luckor. När jag jämförde med de ursprungliga böckerna om Sotarpojken Giorgio förstod jag varför - två böcker om sammanlagt över 500 sidor.
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