If it weren't for you I wouldn't know neither Nance Drew nor The Hardy Boys. I guess they are relatively unknown in Germany.
Funnily, my German childhood heroes came mostly from foreign authors: Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer and the cooler Huckleberry Finn), Astrid Lindgren, the famous Swedish children's book author (the "Kalle Blomquist" series - also a young amateur detective - is called "Bill Bergson" in the US) and most importantly the "The Three Investigators" series (called in Germany "The Three Question Marks" - fantastic translation!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_investigators
The Three Investigators is still immensely popular in Germany and a multi-million Euro expensive movie was made two years ago (filmed in South Africa, completely in English and with American child actors - sounds a bit like "Stupid German Movie Money" but it actually was a German studio located in my hometown Hamburg, which produced the movie). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476603/
A sequel is apparently in the works at the moment. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156519/
If it weren't for you I wouldn't know neither Nance Drew nor The Hardy Boys. I guess they are relatively unknown in Germany.
Funnily, my German childhood heroes came mostly from foreign authors: Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer and the cooler Huckleberry Finn), Astrid Lindgren, the famous Swedish children's book author (the "Kalle Blomquist" series - also a young amateur detective - is called "Bill Bergson" in the US) and most importantly the "The Three Investigators" series (called in Germany "The Three Question Marks" - fantastic translation!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_investigators
The Three Investigators is still immensely popular in Germany and a multi-million Euro expensive movie was made two years ago (filmed in South Africa, completely in English and with American child actors - sounds a bit like "Stupid German Movie Money" but it actually was a German studio located in my hometown Hamburg, which produced the movie).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476603/
A sequel is apparently in the works at the moment.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156519/
take care,
Calibrator
take care,
Calibrator