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The Knickerbocker Gang (German: Die Knickerbocker-Bande) is a series of books for children by Austrian writer Thomas Brezina. [1] It features stories about junior detectives called Axel, Poppi, Lilo and Dominik, who solve mysteries. [2] [3] The books, originally in German, have been translated to approximately nineteen different languages. [4]
The Knickerbocker magazine was a subsidiary of the group founded in 1833 by Charles Fenno Hoffman and was contributed to by many Knickerbocker group members across the early to mid 19th century. The magazine was considered by Perry Miller to be “the most influential literary organ in America” by 1840 under its editor Lewis Gaylord Clark. [ 10 ]
The Knickerbocker or New-York Monthly Magazine (1833–1865), a literary magazine founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman; The Knickerbocker Gang, a series of children's books by Austrian writer Thomas Brezina, and a TV series based on the books; Knickerbocker News, a newspaper in Albany, New York published between 1843 and 1988
Thomas Brezina (2018) Thomas Brezina with his dog Joppy (2018) Thomas C. Brezina [1] (born 30 January 1963) [2] is an Austrian writer of children's books and TV-Presenter.He is especially known for his series, The Knickerbocker Gang, A Case for You and the Tiger-Team and his stories about the talking bike Tom Turbo, as well as for hosting the children's television series Am Dam Des.
Stanley Thomas Williams and Tremaine McDowell, editors of the 1927 edition of A History of New York, called this the most intelligent review of the book since its release in 1809. [9] The book loosely inspired the musical Knickerbocker Holiday. In 2005, reviewer Christine Wade described the book as satire and not being a modern novel. [10]
At the time, "Knickerbocker" was a term for Manhattan's aristocracy. [9] Knickerbocker was also an imaginary personage created by Washington Irving to promote his new book at the time, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. The work was a satire of both history books and the politics of the time.
Members of the Knickerbocker Club are almost-exclusively descendants of British and Dutch aristocratic families that governed the early 1600s American Colonies or that left the Old Continent for political reasons (e.g. partisans of the Royalist coalition against Cromwell, such as the "distressed Cavaliers" of the aristocratic Virginia settlers), or current members of the international aristocracy.
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