At the first available opportunity his uncle put him on a train back to Munich. He was horrified, however, by the 1943 Hamburg bombing, which he experienced while visiting his paternal uncle.
I still don't truly understand it, but I was almost tempted to cast myself into the fire like a moth into the light. I remember singing and careering through the blaze like a drunkard. He was twelve years old when he witnessed the first Allied bombing raid on Munich. The horrors of World War II heavily influenced Ende's childhood. In 1936, his father's work was declared " degenerate art" and banned by the Nazi Party, so Edgar Ende was forced to draw and paint in secret. Growing up in this rich artistic and literary environment influenced Ende's later writing. In 1935, when Michael was six, the Ende family moved to the "artists' quarter of Schwabing" in Munich (Haase). Early life Įnde was born 12 November 1929 in Garmisch, Bavaria, the only child of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende and Luise Bartholomä Ende, a physiotherapist.
His works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 35 million copies. He is known for his epic fantasy The Neverending Story (with its 1980s film adaptation and a 1995 animated television adaptation) other well-known works include Momo and Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver. Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction.
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