100th birthday of Erich Kästner - maximum card Germany

This maximum card was published for Erich Kästner's 100th birthday. It is franked with the German postage stamp for Erich Kästner's birthday and canceled with the first day cancellation from 02.18.1999 in Berlin. The illustration on the stamp is an excerpt from the title page of his famous work "Emil and the Detectives".
The 60th anniversary of Erich Kästner's (1899 - 1974) death is on July 29th. His name is mainly associated with the book "Emil and the Detectives", which was first published in 1928. In the meantime there are several generations of readers who grew up with Erich Kästner's novels for children: "Pünktchen und Anton", "The flying classroom" or "Das doppelte Lottchen" are probably his best-known works.