Krabat studies hard and becomes the master's star pupil, but when he falls for a local village girl the depth of the masters evil and the darker secrets of the mill begin to reveal themselves. Much to his surprise Krabat soon discovers that the mill is actually a school of black magic and he is expected to learn much more than just a normal miller's trade. He becomes an apprentice to the master of the watermill where he joins the eleven other young journeymen who work there. Set within a world of sorcery and wizardry, much like an 18th Century Harry Potter, Krabat tells the story of a 14-year-old beggar boy lured to a mysterious mill by a series of frightening dreams and apparitions. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1972 for Krabat.One of Neil Gaiman's favourite scary stories for children.
There his talents as a storyteller and illustrator were put to good use, and often the stories he told the children would later be written down and published. They celebrated their wedding the same year.īetween 19 he was initially a primary school teacher, then a school principal in Rosenheim.
He spent the next five years in various POW camps in the Tatar Republic.Īfter his release in June 1949, he was lucky to find in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim his displaced relatives and his fiancée, Annelies Kind. 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 Wehrmacht Heer. His forefathers had lived in this area since the 15th century, working in the glass industry.
He was born in Liberec (German: Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat). Otfried Preussler (Otfried Preußler) (born October 20, 1923) is a German children's books author.
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