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Lisa Tetzner (10 November 1894 in Boyds Mill Press Profile
In the US ''Hans Sees The World'' was popular. It was a translation from her original German, published in 1934 by Covici-Friede.
Lisa Tetzner (10 November 1894 in Zittau
Zittau ( hsb, Žitawa, dsb, Žytawa, pl, Żytawa, cs, Žitava, Upper Lusatian Dialect: ''Sitte''; from Slavic "''rye''" (Upper Sorbian and Czech: ''žito'', Lower Sorbian: ''žyto'', Polish: ''żyto'')) is the southeasternmost city in the Ger ...
, Saxony – 2 July 1963 in Carona, Switzerland
Carona is a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 14 April 2013 the former municipalities of Bogno, Cadro, Carona, Certara, Cimadera, Valcolla and Sonvico merged into the municipality of Lu ...
) was a German-born Swiss children's book writer known for her work with fairy-tales. In 1924 she married Kurt Held
Kurt Kläber (1897–1959), who published under the pseudonym Kurt Held, was a writer and Communist displaced from Germany during the Second World War.
Early life
Kläber left school at the age of 14 and began training as a locksmith and later ...
, a Jewish Communist.
They fled to Switzerland in 1933 to escape the Nazis
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hit ...
and in 1948 became Swiss citizens. Her book, '' Die schwarzen Brüder'' was published in 1941. The Swiss censored her work fearing it may antagonise the wartime German government. Later her "socialist fairy-tales" became popular in East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
. One of her best-known works is ''The Children From No. 67'' series written as a collaboration with her husband.In the US ''Hans Sees The World'' was popular. It was a translation from her original German, published in 1934 by Covici-Friede.
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