Krabat (The satanic mill)

As an apprentice, the orphan boy Krabat comes into the mill at the Koselbruch. Twelve miller´s apprentices are not only taught the miller´s trade by their master, but also the black magic. Every year on New Year´s Eve, one of them must die – in lieu of the master who is given another year. When it is the turn of Krabat´s friend and protector to die, Krabat takes up a long fight against the evil powers.

Otfried Preußler

KRABAT

The satanic mill

252 pages with illustrations

of Herbert Holzing

Arena Verlag, 1971

Thienemann Verlag, 1981

Translated into 31 languages

 

Awards:

Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis 1972,, Internationaler Hans-Christian-Andersen-Preis 1972,

Silberner Griffel von Rotterdam 1973,, American Library Association Award 1973, 

Europäischer Jugendbuchpreis der Universität Padua 1973, Jugendbuchpreis 1977 des polnischen Verlegerverbandes