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Ulrich Karger

Ulrich Karger (3 February 1957 in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany) is an author and teacher of religion at a school for speech disabled children in Berlin.

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His publications are aimed at children and adults. The complete retelling of Homers Odyssey in prose form in a book for young people, which received acclaim from critics in the complete German linguistic area, is one of his most successful works. [1] [2] This work also forms the basis of the "piece of read-music" Odyssey 1-5-9 that Ulrich Karger developed together with the Berlin jazz-composer Gernot Reetz. Beside other several languages is his picture book for children Geisterstunde im Kindergarten being published in English as The Scary Sleepover .

In addition, for years he has been writing also many book reviews for various daily papers and magazines. He is a member of VS Berlin (writers' association within the German trade union ver.di ). He established the freely accessible online review archives Buechernachlese in 2000. [3] Under this have to be called over 1,500 of his book reviews and short indications for fiction and poetry, non-fiction book as well as children's books and literature for young people. In 2010 he founded the book label Edition Gegenwind, which is meanwhile also used by other well known German writers such as Gabriele Beyerlein, Thomas Fuchs, Manfred Schlüter and Christa Zeuch. Together they now belong to a community of authors, who under this book label above all republish out of stock books written by themselves. [4] [5]

Bibliography

Poetry & Prose

Children's Book

translated from the German
English by J. Alison James: The Scary Sleepover 2002, ISBN   0-7358-1712-X
Dutch by Sander Hendriks: Spoken in de speelzaal 2002, ISBN   90-5579-684-0
French by Anne Ruck-Sultan: Halloween à l'école 2002, ISBN   3-314-21536-3
Italian by Alessandra Valtieri: Halloween all'asilo 2002, ISBN   88-8203-504-2
Slovenian by Andreja Sabati-Suster: Ples duhov v otroškem vrtcu 2002, ISBN   86-7823-284-6

Non-fiction Books

As editor

Children's books

  • Bücherwurm trifft Leseratte – Geschichten, Bilder und Reime für Kinder. Authors: Gabriele Beyerlein, Thomas Fuchs, Ulrich Karger, Manfred Schlüter, Christa Zeuch. Illustrations: Manfred Schlüter. Paperback 2013, ISBN   978-3-7322-4393-8 (E-Book: EAN/ ISBN   978-3-8423-5333-6).
  • Bücherwurm trifft Leseratte 2 – Neue Geschichten und Gedichte für Kinder. Authors: Gabriele Beyerlein, Dagmar Chidolue, Thomas Fuchs, Uschi Flacke, Ulrich Karger, Manfred Schlüter, Sylvia Schopf, Pete Smith, Christa Zeuch. Illustrations: Manfred Schlüter. Paperback 2016, ISBN   978-3-8423-8326-5.

Non-fiction Books

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References

  1. 1 2 Homer: Die Odyssee – article to the book in the German Wikipedia (German)
  2. The Lucerne commission of school- and municipality libraries deemed this work worthy as a "masterly performance" and Hans-Ludwig Oertel writes in FORUM CLASSICUM (volume 1/2003): "The kind of retelling by the teacher Ulrich Karger is nearest at the Homeric text" and at least the work community literature for young people and media in the trade union GEW Bavaria "wishes this thorough work a life time just as long as the version by Gustav Schwab".
  3. Mainpage of Buechernachlese German Book Reviews by Ulrich Karger (German)
  4. Mainpage of Edition Gegenwind (German)
  5. Edition Gegenwind – article to the book label in the German Wikipedia (German)
  6. Kindskopf – Eine Heimsuchung – article to the book in the German Wikipedia (German)