In 1943 Bürger's book was adapted into a German feature film, Münchhausen, directed by Josef von Báky, with Hans Albers in the title role and Brigitte Horney as the Empress Catherine the Great, written by Erich Kästner.

Emil Erich Kästner () ( 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974 ) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.

Kästner was born in Dresden, Saxony.

It was rumored that Erich Kästner's natural father was not Emil Kästner, but rather the Jewish family doctor, Emil Zimmermann ( 1864 – 1953 ).

According to Kästner, he did not suffer from being an only child, had many friends, and was not lonely or over-indulged.

" Kästner was drafted in 1917 and became part of a heavy artillery company.

Kästner was a regular contributor to different daily newspapers such as the Berliner Tageblatt and the Vossische Zeitung, as well as to the theater journal Die Weltbühne.

Kästner, however, was dissatisfied with the screenplay.

Kästner was a pacifist and wrote for children because of his belief in the regenerating powers of youth.

Kästner was denied entry into the new Nazi-controlled national writers ' guild, the Reichsschrifttumskammer, because of what officials called the " culturally Bolshevist attitude in his writings predating 1933.

Kästner was in Mayrhofen when the war ended.

It was thanks to Wedekind's success that the tradition of German satirical writing was established in the theatre, producing the cabaret-song satirists Kurt Tucholsky, Walter Mehring, Joachim Ringelnatz and Erich Kästner among others, who invigorated the culture of the Weimar Republic ; " all bitter social critics who used direct, stinging satire as the best means of attack and wrote a large part of their always intelligible light verse to be declaimed or sung.

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner was a German mathematician and epigrammatist.

Kästner was the son of law professor Abraham Kästner.

Kästner studied law, philosophy, physics, mathematics and metaphysics in Leipzig from 1731, and was appointed a Notary in 1733.

This crater was formerly designated Kästner F before it was named by the IAU.

It is probable that Kästner also wanted to avoid abandoning his mother.

In 1769, Johann Mayer began studying theology and philosophy at the relatively new Georg-August University of Göttingen under Abraham Gotthelf Kästner ( and later also with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ).

Kästner lets the unemployed German literary expert Fabian explain the uproarious quick pace of the times and the downfall of the Weimar Republic.

She attained fame and frequented places like the " Romanisches Café ", where the literary world met, among them Erich Kästner and Kurt Tucholsky.

The writer Theodor Fontane, painter Adolf von Menzel, and Dadaist Kurt Schwitters were all guests ; Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacus Communist movement leader read a lot here and even made some key political speeches from the pavement terrace, while author Erich Kästner wrote part of his 1929 bestseller for children, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ), on the same terrace and made the café the setting for an important scene in the book.

The brutality of the training he underwent as a soldier impressed Kästner strongly ; this and the slaughter of the war in general had a strong influence on his antimilitarist opinions.

In 1913, Kästner entered a teacher training school in Dresden, but left the school in 1916 shortly before completing the courses that would have qualified him to teach at public schools.

In the autumn of 1919, Kästner enrolled at the University of Leipzig to study history, philosophy, German language and literature and theatre.

From 1927 until 1931, Kästner lived at Prager Straße 17 ( today near no.

The dark mare-filled crater at the southern edge of Smythii is the crater Kästner.

Lisa and Lottie ( original German title: Das doppelte Lottchen " The double Lottie ") is a 1949 novel by Erich Kästner, which originally started out during WWII as an aborted movie scenario, about twin girls separated at birth who meet at summer camp.

He pursued his studies at Göttingen under Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, and in 1787 he went to Berlin and studied practical astronomy under J. E. Bode.

In early 1945, Kästner and others faked a filming engagement in the remote Mayrhofen in Tyrol to avoid the Soviet assault on Berlin.

* 1899 – Erich Kästner, German writer ( d. 1974 )

* 1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician ( d. 1800 )

* Erich Kästner – novelist and poet ( Drei Männer im Schnee )

* June 20 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician ( b. 1719 )

* September 27 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician ( d. 1800 )

* May 26 – Oberleutnant Kästner and Lt Georg Langhoff score the first German air-to-air victory of World War I.

* Volker Kästner: Der Tempel des Zeus Sosipolis von Magnesia am Mäander, in: Brigitte Knittlmayer and Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer: Die Antikensammlung, Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1998, p. 230-231

Kästner did travel to Meran and to Switzerland just after the Nazis assumed power, and he met with exiled fellow writers there.

The crater Kästner on the Moon is named after him.

The stories were made into films in 1911 ( Les Aventures du baron de Münchhausen ), 1943 ( Münchhausen, script by Erich Kästner ), and 1961 ( Baron Prášil by director Karel Zeman ).

In the autumn of 1928, Kästner published his best-known children's book, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ).

Kästner followed up on his success with Pünktchen und Anton ( 1931 ) and Das fliegende Klassenzimmer ( 1933 ).