Nesthäkchen in the Children's Sanitorium
Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten-book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy to old age and grandchildren. This third volume of the series, published 1915/1921, tells the story of ten-year-old Annemarie's bout of scarlet fever, her recovery in a North Sea children's sanitorium, and her desperate struggle to return home at the outbreak of World War I.
Nesthäkchen in the Children's Sanitorium
"Original Dust Jacket, Nesthäkchen im Kinderheim. Illustration by Robert Sedlacek
"Peter, Peter, the flood is coming!" Horrified, Annemarie screamed as the storm raged. Illustration by Robert Sedlacek (1881–1957) from Nesthäkchen im Kinderheim (1921).
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
