Boy Lornsen – Low Saxon

Authors in Plattmakers Black, the Low German Literature Search

Birth:

7th August 1922 (Monday), Keitum

Death:

26th July 1995 (Wednesday), Keitum

Age at death:

72

Info from Wikipedia:

Boy Lornsen was a German sculptor and author of children's literature, writing both in Standard German and in Platt.
Lornsen served as pilot and radio operator in the German Luftwaffe during World War II. After the war, he was educated as a sculptor at Hanover. He worked as a sculptor into the 1960s.
In 1967, he published his first children's book, about a boy who helps a robot with his homework, Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt. The book was a success, and was adapted for television in 1972. Lornsen was a member of P.E.N. from 1981.

Names of Boy Lornsen:

Lornsen, Boy

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Magnussen, Friedrich (1914-1987), CC BY-SA 3.0 de

Works authored by Boy Lornsen