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米切尔·恩德
Michael Ende

（11.12.1929-----）
　

Biography

Michael Ende was born on November 12, 1929 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, the

only son of Edgar Ende, a surrealist painter who was barred from painting by the Nazis in 1936, and his physiotherapist wife Luise. Ende went to the Waldorf school, but quit when he was drafted by the German Army in 1945. He attended Munich's Otto Falckenburg Drama School from 1947 to 1950 and then held various jobs as an actor, writer of cabaret scripts and plays, a director of the Volkstheater in Munich, and film critic for the Bavarian Broadcasting Company. His first novel for children, "Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver," was published in Germany in 1960 to great popular and critical acclaim, and both radio and television series based on the "Jim Knopf" books were produced. Although he was highly esteemed by fans and critics alike, Ende reportedly remained shy and modest about his success. He died of stomach cancer in Stuttgart, Germany on August 29, 1995 at the age of 65.

A German gymnasium (the equivalent of a U.S. high school) was renamed Michael Ende Gymnasium in the summer of 1996. The gymnasium's web site is currently in German only. You may also be interested in visiting Miguel Hirota's web site devoted to Michael Ende's philosophy.

　

Works

1960, "Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver"
(published in the United States as "Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver")
early 1960s, "Jim Knopf and the Wild 13"
(published in the United States as "Jim Button and the Wild 13")
1973, "Momo"
1979, "The Neverending Story"
1982, Juggler's Tale
1986, The Grey Gentlemen
1988, Ophelia's Shadow Theater
1990, Night of Wishes

Publishers

"The Grey Gentlemen," ("Momo") 1986, Viking Penguin Press, 0-14-009464-4, $14.95
"Jim Button," 1990, Overlook Press, 0-87951-391-8, $13.95
"The Neverending Story," 1997, NAL/Dutton, 0-52545758-5, $19.99
"The Neverending Story," 1993, Puffin Books, 0-14-038633-5, $5.99 (pap.)
"The Neverending Story," 1991, Buccaneer Books, 0-89966-807-0, $33.95
"The Neverending Story," 1979, Amereon Ltd., 0-8488-1306-5, $31.95
"Night of Wishes," 1992, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 0-374-19594-3, $16.00
"Night of Wishes," 1995, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 0-374-45503-1, $5.95 (pap.)
"Night of Wishes," 1995, Sunburst Press, 0-14-93759-4, $5.95 (pap.)
"Orphelia's Shadow Theater," 1989, Overlook Press, 0-87951-371-3, $14.95
　