Henny Koch

Infobox Writer
name = Henny Koch


birthdate = birth date|1854|09|22
birthplace = Alsfeld, Hessen, Germany
deathdate = death date and age|1925|6|13|1854|09|22
deathplace = Jugenheim an der Bergstraße, Hessen, Germany
occupation = Writer, translator
nationality = German
genre = children's literature
notableworks = "Papas Junge"

Henny Koch (September 22, 1854 — June 13, 1925) was a translator and a German children's author. She was born in Alsfeld. From 1898 on, she lived in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße in Hessia, Germany, where she died in 1925. She produced the first German translation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1890. Henny Koch wrote 29 books, mainly for young girls. Her books were published in eight countries. Her most successful work was a series of novels, beginning with Papas Junge, in which you can accompany the protagonist through her life as a young girl, a mother and grandmother. In Italy Il birichino di papà has been produced in 1943, a movie based on this novel, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and with music by Nino Rota.

Works

Children's Books

*1901 "Mein Sonnenstrahl"
*1902 "Das Mägdlein aus der Fremde"
*1904 "Rose Maries Weg zum Glück"
*1905 "Papas Junge"
*1905 "Die Traut"
*1906 "Mütterchen Sylvia"
*1907 "Allerlei Lustiges für unsere Buben und Mädels"
*1907 "Irrwisch"
*1908 "Aus großer Zeit"
*1908 "Die ins Leben lachen"
*1909 "Friedel Polten und ihre Rangen"
*1910 "Kleine Geschichten für kleine Leute"
*1911 "Evchen der Eigensinn"
*1911 "Das Komteßchen"
*1912 "Im Lande der Blumen"
*1914 "Ein tapferes Mädchen"
*1916 "Die Vollrads in Südwest"
*1916 "Die Patentochter des alten Fritz"
*1916 "Wildes Lorle"
*1917 "Die verborgene Handschrift"
*1917 "Aus sonnigen Tagen"
*1919 "Klein Großchen"
*1921 "Glory"
*1922 "Von der Lach-Els und anderen"
*1922 "Jungfer Ursel"
*1924 "Das Heiterlein"
*1925 "Hochgeborene"
*1930 "Wir fünf"

External links

* [http://www.hennykoch.de/ Information about the author (in German only)]