Nesthäkchen and the World War
Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Anne Marie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten-book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy to old age and grandchildren. Volume 4 describes Anne Marie's experiences in World War I from 1914 to 1916.
Nesthäkchen and the World War
"Original Dust Jacket, Nesthäkchen und der Weltkrieg. Illustration by Robert Sedlacek
Else Ury was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series.
Else Ury
"Instead of the girlish heads bent over their notebooks, Annemarie saw laughing soldiers." Illustration by Robert Sedlacek (1881–1957) from Nesthäkchen und der Weltkrieg (1921). This illustration contains one error. German soldiers wore field gray, not olive drab.
Berlin memorial plaque, Kantstraße 30, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany
Else Ury, 1915