The article consists of three parts, each focusing on a different aspect of Michael Ende’s biography and works. The first part of the paper analyzes the reception of Michael Ende’s children’s literature in Poland. In the ...

The Michael Ende Museum in Munich was set up in 1998 as the first institution in Germany whose role was to popularize the output of one of the most distinguished representatives of world literature for children. The ...

In only two generations, depression has become the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder among teenagers. Youth depression is one of the threads in the novel The Neverending Story (1979) by Michael Ende. The paper ...

The author of the paper examines the plot of The Neverending Story in the context of Northrop Frey’s archetypal criticism and Carl Gustav Jung’s depth psychology. She distinguishes and then analyzes archetypal images and ...

The paper discusses the reception of Michael Ende’s works in Poland since the publication of the Polish translation of his novel Momo in 1978. The analysis focuses on the popularity of Ende’s works and the literary ...

Michael Ende’s novel (abbreviated here as Momo) could be considered a literary philosophical tractate on the subject of time and person in relational terms. The relationality and perception of the work as a “record of ...

The novel Momo by Michael Ende, published in 1973 with the subtitle A peculiar story about the thieves of time and a child who returned people their stolen time, is often seen as a critical study of civilization and ...

The article begins by tracing the developments that led to the writing of Jim Button and Lukas the Engine Driver (Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer), Michael Ende’s breakout fantasy novel for children. It also ...

Theater and the stage are places that bring literature to young audiences in a special way. Although Michael Ende and his works for children are not as well known to children in Poland as to their German-speaking peers, ...