Madelaine Chaproll

About Madeleine Chaproll

Madeleine Chaproll was born a migrant child in Romania. She was five when she first entered an orphanage. Her life was one of permanent moving: new towns, new boarding homes, new schools. But despite of all this her childhood was an absolutely ordinary one. The tremendous power of her phantasy could transform even the saddest moments in her life into joy and hope. She would call herself a blessed child. Books and the study of ballet and music brought colour and beauty into her life, allowing her to often ignore the grey reality. She studied at a commercial college and later married an ethnic German engineer, with whom she emigrated a few years later to Germany. “If with my writing I can induce some people in this world to dream and think about goodness, then I am happy.”