Author. Christine Noestlinger wanted to become a painter at first and studied commercial arts in Vienna, but she skipped her studies when she married in 1957. In 1970, she published her first children's book "Die feuerrote Friederike" (Fiery Frederica), which she illustrated herself. In 1972, this book was awarded with the Friedrich-Boedecker-Preis. Over the years, she published more than 140 books for children, which have been translated into many other languages. Some of them were adapted for stage or television presentation such in 1979 the "Dschi-Dschei-Wischer" series. As her books had been awarded many times, among others with the Hans-Christian-Andersen-Award in 1984 and the Astrid-Lindgren-Memorial-Award in 2003, she was considered to be one of the most popular and most influencing authors of children's books in the German-speaking nations. Reoccurring topics of her books were authority and emancipation, outsiders and social criticism. She was also considered to have been one of the first authors of children's books to mention the historic topic of the National Socialism. In 1973, she wrote "Maikäfer flieg!" (Fly Away Home), which is based on autobiographic experiences and describes the times before and during World War II from the view of an eight-years-old girl. This book was adapted for movie theaters in 2016 by Mirjam Unger. Noestlinger´s special feature was her creative language containing neologisms and for some of her protagonists' artificial languages. She also published poems for adults in Viennese dialect and held public readings of publications that were written in Viennese dialect by other authors. Noestlinger called texting in Viennese dialect her passion as it was her native language. She also published television scripts and three cooking books. She worked as a journalist writing essays and commentaries and also as a radio presenter of for example "Rudi! Radio für Kinder," which ran twice a week from 2003 to 2018. In her honors, in 2019 the Lidlpark in Vienna-Hernals was renamed to Noestlinger-Park and a street in Vienna-Floridsdorf was named "Christine-Noestlinger-Gasse". And in the following year, Vienna-Leopoldstadt opened the "Bildungscampus Christine Noestlinger" which offers education, arts, sports and therapy to children. Her parents were Walter Goeth and Michaela Draxler (neé Danzinger). She had an elder sister Elisabeth. Noestlinger was married twice. From her first marriage that was divorced in 1959, she had a daughter. In 1961, she married the journalist Ernst Noestlinger and they had a daughter in the same year.