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Waldemar Bonsels was a German writer.

Waldemar Bonsels's most famous work is the children's book Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer . This work served the basis for a Japanese animated television series named Maya the Honey Bee in the mid-1970s, as well as a Croatian opera for children written by Bruno Bjelinski, making Bonsels work known to an even greater audience. The opera was staged in 2008 in Villach, Austria at the Carinthian Summer Music Festival. Himmelsvolk is a sequel with a more philosophical focus, describing in mystical terms the unity of all creation and its relationship to God.

He wrote a number of novels and shorter stories dealing with love as Eros and the higher level of divine love in the spirit of romanticism , with the relationship between man and nature in a simple life unchanged by modern civilisation and also a historical novel about the time of Jesus .

He travelled extensively in Europe and Asia. Indienfahrt is the fruit of one of these travels.

Bonsels was an outspoken anti-Semite and expressed his approval of Nazi politics against Jews in 1933, calling the Jew "a deadly enemy" who was "poisoning the culture" in an article which was widely published. Wikipedia

✵ 21. February 1880 – 31. July 1952