Other books include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver). He was interested in and influenced by anthroposophy.ĭie unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) is Ende's best known work.

The reader is often invited to take a more interactive role in the story, and the worlds in his books often mirror our reality, using fantasy to bring light to the problems of an increasingly technological modern society.Įnde was also known as a proponent of economic reform, and claimed to have had the concept of aging money in mind when writing Momo. Ende’s writing could be described as a surreal mixture of reality and fantasy. Ende claimed, 'It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories,' and that ' for any child between 80 and 8 years' (qtd. However, Ende was not strictly a children’s author, as he also wrote books for adults. He was the son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende.Įnde was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books. The reader is often invited to take a more interactive role in the story, and the worlds in his books often mirror our reality, using Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature. Ende was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books.

He was the son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende. Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature.

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende