I am a storyteller

The Little Witch','The Robber Hotzenplotz' and'Krabat', the books of the storyteller Otfried Preußler are at home in children's rooms all over the world. Here Preußler tells his adult readers: of his childhood in Bohemia, of his grandmother Dora, of his literary role models, of his happiness to have survived war and imprisonment, of his career as a writer, of the development of his most important works, of his special responsibility to write for children - and finally, he reflects on his aging and age. This book is not a biography, but still contains a lot of autobiographical information, because the characters in Prussler's books are closely connected with the person who wrote them. In 38 texts from the years 1972-2009, compiled by his daughters Susanne Preußler-Bitsch and Regine Stigloher, P.