Michael Ende (HM6)

Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (* November 12th, 1929 in Garmisch, Bavaria) is the only child of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende (* 1901) and his wife Luise Bartholomä (* 1892). Shortly after his birth, the family moved from Garmisch to , since the father hoped to have better chances for success as a painter there. Hence, Ende spent the first years of his life in Pasing and Schwabing (quarters of Munich). In the Mid-1930s, the Family got into a crisis when Edgar Ende's Works were deemed as "entartete Kunst" by the NS-Reichskulturkammer. Many Friends and colleagues of the father, some of them Jews, were deported. Michael Ende learned as early as a small child not to tell outsiders about what he heard at home. In 1940, he went to the Maximiliansgymnasium, a higher school in Munich.
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