Kindermuseum berlin cornelia funke biography

Born in Dorsten , North Rhine-Westphalia, she began her career as a social worker before becoming a book illustrator. She began writing novels in the late s and focused primarily on fantasy-oriented stories that depict the lives of children faced with adversity.

Cornelia Funke.

Funke has since become Germany's "bestselling author for children". Funke achieved acclaim as the author of the children's novels The Thief Lord and Dragon Rider , which were translated and released in English after originally being published in Germany. She subsequently achieved wider recognition with the Inkheart series of novels , which include Inkheart , Inkspell , and Inkdeath Often referred to as the "German J.

Rowling ", Funke was chosen by Time as one of the most influential people in the world in their list. As a child, she wanted to become an astronaut or a pilot, but ultimately decided to study pedagogy at the University of Hamburg. During her social work she focused on working with children who came from deprived backgrounds. During the late s and the s, Funke established herself as a writer of children's fiction in Germany.

Rowling and publishing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in , [ 10 ] received a letter from a young bilingual girl who asked why Funke's novel hadn't been translated into English yet. The translation, released by The Chicken House in , won widespread acclaim and reached several bestseller lists. Another early English translation was Dragon Rider , originally published in Germany in as Drachenreiter.

Released in the United States in , it became a massive success, [ 14 ] and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 78 weeks, [ 15 ] reaching number one on the Children's Best Seller list.

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The trilogy was initially concluded in Inkdeath , but was revived in when Funke announced that a sequel called Die Farbe der Rache The Color of Revenge will be published by October in Germany. Following the release of the first Inkheart novel, New Line Cinema bought the film rights to all three books for a cinema adaptation. Funke moved to Los Angeles in after she had accepted the offer to participate as the film's producer alongside Barry Mendel.