Hannes Hüttner was born in Zwickau in 1932, and lived most of his life in Berlin, where he died in 2014. He worked as a sociologist, writer and film writer.
His best-known works include:
Das Blaue vom Himmel, (Kinderbuchverlag 1974)
Das Lachen, (Kinderbuchverlag, 1982)
Herakles der Dank der Götter, (Kinderbuchverlag, 1987)
Das grosse Benimm-Buch, (Verlag Junge Welt, 1988)
Der Fasan Johann, (Verlag Junge Welt, 1988)
Die U-Bahn-Mäuse, (Kinderbuchverlag, 1994)
O schick mir ein Lied! Anekdoten über Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, (Eulenspiegel Verlag, 2008)
He was awarded with the Heinrich-Greif-Preis in 1978 and the 1982 Alex-Wedding-Preis for Children’s Literature. (2020)