Paul Maar
Paul Maar was born on 13 December 1937 in Schweinfurt.
After successfully completing grammar school with his Abitur in his
pocket, he studied painting and history of art at the Stuttgart
School of Art. He then spent six years teaching art. Today a
freelance author and illustrator, Maar lives in Bamberg. He is
married and has three grown-up children. Paul Maar writes
children’s and young people’s books and translates children’s books
from English in collaboration with his wife, Nele Maar. He also
writes children’s plays and scripts for children’s television
programmes, and travels around the world for the Goethe Institute
promoting children’s literature. His books have received numerous
prizes and been translated into many languages. Paul Maar is no
less successful as a playwright. He usually dreams up the
characters in his stories himself, but also illustrates other
writers’ works. His best-known (own) characters are without doubt
the Sat (Sams), a thoroughly impudent mythical creature, Lippel the
dreamer and the little kangaroo. He also writes and illustrates
picture stories for magazines.
