Uwe Timm

Uwe Timm (* 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German author.

Life and Work

Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16-years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died in Ukraine in 1943. Decades later Uwe Timm tried to approach his father and brother in his critically acclaimed novel "In my brother's shadow".

After working as a furrier Timm studied Philosophy and German in Munich and Paris. He started publishing in the early 70s and became known to a larger audience in Germany after one of his children's books was turned into a movie. Today he is one of the most successful contemporary authors in Germany.

Awards

*1995 Bavarian Film Award, Best Young People's Film [http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf]

Bibliography

*"Widersprüche", Poems (1971)
*"Heißer Sommer" (1974)
*"Wolfenbüttlerstr. 57", Poems (1977)
*"Morenga" (1978)
*"Kerbels Flucht" (1980)
*"Die deutschen Kolonien", Photo book (1981)
*"Die Zugmaus", Children's book (1981)
*"Die Piratenamsel", Children's book (1983)
*"Der Mann auf dem Hochrad", Children's book (1984)
*"Der Schlangenbaum" (1986)
*"Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel", Children's book (1989)
*"Vogel, friss die Feige nicht" (1989)
*"Der Kopfjäger" (1991)
*"Die Piratenamsel", Children's book (1991)
*"Erzählen und kein Ende", A collection of speeches (1993)
*"Die Entdeckung der Currywurst" (1993)
*"Der Schatz auf Pagensand" (1995)
*"Johannisnacht" (1996)
*"Nicht morgen, nicht gestern, Short stories (1999)
*"Rot" (2001)
*"Am Beispiel meines Bruders" (2003)
*"Der Freund und der Fremde" (2005)
*"Halbschatten" (2008)

English translations

* The Snake Tree, 1989
* Headhunter, 1994
* The Invention of the Curried Sausage, 1995
* Midsummer Night, 1998
* Morenga, 2003
* In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS, 2005

References

* http://www.dtv.de/_google/autoren/autor21.htm (German)
* http://www.litrix.de/autoren/autor/uwetimm/enindex.htm