Ulrich Karger
Ulrich Karger (February 3, 1957 in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany) is an author and teacher of religion at a school for speech disabled children in Berlin.
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.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Poetry & Prose
- Zeitlese (poetry, texts & 14 vignettes) 1982
- Gemischte Gefühle (poetry and short prose) 1985, ISBN 3-925122-00-1
- Verquer (novel collage) 1990, ISBN 3-900959-02-1
- Mitlesebuch Nr.26 (poetry and short prose) 1997
- KopfSteinPflasterEchos (grotesque stories) 1999, ISBN 3-932325-56-7
- Kindskopf - Eine Heimsuchung[4] (novella and variation on the Book of Jonah) 2002, ISBN 3-928832-12-3
- Vom Uhrsprung und anderen Merkwürdigkeiten (fairy tales and parables) 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-6942-1
[edit] Children's Book
- Familie Habakuk und die Ordumok-Gesellschaft (children's book) 1993, ISBN 3-414-83534-7
- Dicke Luft in Halbundhalb (children's book) 1994, ISBN 3-414-83602-5, paperback new edition 2011 ISBN 978-3-8391-6460-0
- Homer: Die Odyssee[1] (retelling) 1996, ISBN 3-429-01809-9, paperback new edition 2004, ISBN 3-12-262460-5
- Geisterstunde im Kindergarten (picture book) 2002, ISBN 3-314-01151-2
- 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
[edit] as editor
- Briefe von Kemal Kurt. Textenetz|Edition 2007[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Homer: Die Odyssee - article to the book in the German Wikipedia (German)
- ^ 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".
- ^ Buechernachlese German Book Reviews by Ulrich Karger (German)
- ^ Kindskopf - Eine Heimsuchung - article to the book in the German Wikipedia (German)
- ^ Textenetz.de.vu Briefe von Kemal Kurt. Five letters of Kemal Kurt (1947 - 2002) from the year 2001, edited by Ulrich Karger (German)
[edit] External links
- Ulrich Karger in the German National Library catalogue (German)
- Homepage with bibliography, parts of his texts and book reviews
- ub.fu-berlin.de Link collection of the University Library of the Free University of Berlin (German)
