Walter Trier
Walter Trier – the illustrator of The Parent Trap, The Flying Classroom and Dot and Anton – was introduced to Erich Kästner in Berlin in 1927. He had begun his career drawing cartoons for the Berliner Illustrated and contributing to the satirical weekly Simplicissimus. During the 1920s he ridiculed Hitler and the Nazi Party in a series of cartoons, and continued to do so until 1933, despite great personal risk. In 1936 he fled to London, where he produced anti-Nazi leaflets and political propaganda drawings. Having had a rich career, including the production of around 150 covers for the humorous magazine Lilliput, he died in 1951 in Ontario, Canada.
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