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.

In 1928 Kästner published his first book, Herz auf Taille, a collection of poems he wrote in Leipzig.

Kästner wrote the novel in an almost cinematic style: Rapid cuts and montages are important stylistic elements.

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

During this time, Kästner wrote a number of skits, songs, audio plays, speeches, and essays about National Socialism, World War II, and the stark realities of destroyed post-war Germany.

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.

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.

Here Neustadt refers to Neustadt, Dresden, where Kästner spent his childhood.

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

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

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

** Erich Kästner, German author ( b. 1899 )

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

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

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.

Close by, the Erich Kästner Museum is located on the ground floor of Kästner's uncle Franz Augustin's former villa on Antonstraße next to the Albertplatz.

Kästner had a particularly close relationship with his mother.

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

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.

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

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.

Kästner critiques the sergeant's character in his poem Sergeant Waurich.

At the end of the war, Kästner returned to school and achieved the Abitur with distinction, earning a scholarship ( Stipendium ) from the city of Dresden.

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

His studies took Kästner to Rostock and Berlin, and in 1925 he received a doctorate for a thesis on Frederick the Great and German literature.

Kästner paid for his studies by working as a journalist and drama critic for the prestigious Neue Leipziger Zeitung newspaper.

The same year, Kästner moved to Berlin.

In just a few years, Kästner became one of the most important intellectual figures in the German capital.

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.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

Heidenstam wrote four other works of fiction about earlier figures revered in Swedish memory.

She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments, like `` Oh, What Fun!!

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

From Gottingen ( 1801 ) where he stayed for 10 days, he wrote, `` The first question asked everywhere is about galvanism.

`` Speaking of nonism: the other day, in a story about a sit-down demonstration, the Paris Herald Tribune wrote, ' The non-violence became noisier.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.

They talked and wrote much about the elemental functions of the body.

Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

I visited the bank in March and wrote a story about the situation.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day: