I usually watch some television when the news gets too combative I switch to The Simpsons because I think they’re wonderful. The hard bit is knowing what to do with myself in the evenings.
I haven’t cried since my husband died – I think I may have used up all my tears. The BBC made a television documentary about me and since then – and especially as I always wear the same clothes – people say hello in the street.
I’m conscious of all the millions who were killed. He had a phone call from someone he’d never met saying the Nazis were trying to take his passport. My father was a very witty writer and drama critic in Germany. My editor keeps giving me different kinds to try. My current cat, Katinka, makes me open the back door for her, like a person I don’t know how she’s done it. Our first family cat was called Mog and I was so amazed by the weird things she did – licking my daughter’s hair as she slept – that I made a picture book. How terribly annoying it would have been to have wasted that.Ĭats are all about power. When I looked at the date I realised it was around the time I’d just learned French. I was shocked by a letter she wrote when we lived in Paris: she was so unhappy she wanted to kill not only herself but my brother and me, too. My father never considered it until it was necessary and my mother made several attempts, but died quite normally in the end. You start to wonder where it’s going to end what else one is not going to remember. It’s frustrating, but it’s common at my age even the young people in their 80s have this problem. When I’m talking to people I wonder if I’m going to be able to get the whole sentence out. She subsequently became a naturalised British citizen.Sometimes I can’t think of words. They travelled first to Switzerland and then on into France, before finally settling in Britain, where Kerr has lived ever since. They were forced to leave as her father, noted drama critic, journalist and screenwriter Alfred Kerr, had openly criticised the Nazis,who burned his books shortly after the family had fled Germany. Kerr was born in Berlin but left Germany with her parents and her brother, Michael, in 1933, soon after the Nazis first came to power.
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They travelled first to Switzerland and then on into France, before finally settling in Britain, where Ker Judith Kerr was a German-born British writer and illustrator who has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came To Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit which give a child's-eye view of the Second World War. Judith Kerr was a German-born British writer and illustrator who has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came To Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit which give a child's-eye view of the Second World War.
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