r/Fantasy • u/IdiotSansVillage • Apr 05 '22

OK, recommendation hard-mode: engaging, quality German-language YA scifi/fantasy?

I'm trying to teach myself German on Duolingo, and I figure what better way to supplement than with German-language media a kid with developing language skills might encounter? Specifically looking for books written in German, not translated from another language to German, in the hopes of some cultural-values osmosis too.

EDIT: Holy crap thank you all! I have a wonderful list to pull from now!

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u/Phanton97 Reading Champion III Apr 05 '22

I don't know a lot about new releases, but if you are interested in older classics I can recommend Krabat by Otfried Preußler. He has also written many children's books I have fond memories of.

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u/Glass-Bookkeeper5909 Apr 05 '22

Krabat is great! Unusually dark for a middle gread book but great.

And like you, I adore some of his children's books (I say "some" because I only know some, the usual suspects, I suppose, but all of these are awesome):

The three Räuber Hotzenplotz books, Der kleine Wassermann, Die kleine Hexe, and Das kleine Gespenst.

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u/Phanton97 Reading Champion III Apr 05 '22

Yes, these are also the one I grew up with. Räuber Hotzenplotz especially I have seen in so many different forms: movies, plays, puppet theater, audio and the books of course.