When most people think of German authors, Goethe, Kafka and Mann are the first to come to mind - but Dresden-born Erich Kästner has also made a huge impact on the German literary scene. You may be ...

A literary anniversary almost entirely unnoticed in the English-speaking world this year was that of Erich Kästner (1899-1974), one of the most delightful and incisive of German humorists and social ...

Nearly 80 years ago, Nazi supporters burned German author Erich Kästner's work as smut. Unlike other condemned writers, he showed up to watch, and refused to leave the country during WWII. But he paid ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter On 10 May 1933, Nazi activists burned piles of "decadent" books on the Opernplatz in Berlin. Many people know about that night of ...

Erich Kastner's much-filmed 1928 children's classic, "Emil and the Detectives," comes up fresh as a daisy in this ebullient modernization of the story about a bunch of kids who track down a thief in ...

Erich Kästner's book "Fabian: Going to the Dogs" has been turned into a movie and can be seen at the current German Film Festival. Leo Kretzenbacher from the University of Melbourne gives us an ...

Some authors write a book that becomes so famous that everything else they write afterwards plays second fiddle. This is certainly the case with the German author, Erich Kastner. His first children’s ...