- Helme Heine
Helme Heine (born
4 April 1941 ) inBerlin is a Germanwriter , children's bookauthor ,illustrator anddesigner . He is the brother ofErnst Wilhelm Heine . He has lived inNew Zealand since 1990, occasionally writing film scripts, audio book scripts and working on satirical drawings andsculpture .Biography
The young Helme (Christian name: Helmut) Heine studied history of art, along with marketing and management. Afterwards in the early
1960s , although planned, he did not take over the parental hotel in the moated castle "Wasserburg Düssel", inWülfrath -Düssel , an old, small village at the town boundary toWuppertal . Instead he went on tour and travelled through Europe, Asia and finallySouth-Africa , where he settled down and worked inJohannesburg till1977 . Among other things he starred in Cabaret there, brought a satirical magazine out and took over the management of a theatre chain.He began to paint at the beginning of the seventies;
1975 saw him develop his first children's book, the "Elefanteneinmaleins" (Elephant multiplication table). He initialized his breakthrough in the same year with theFrankfurt Book Fair , where he got to know the publisher, Gertraud Middelhauve. And already in1976 appeared his first and second book. From now he experienced his stellar ascent to an highly successfull artist. Soon afterwards, in1977 , he pulled up stakes in South-Africa and returned to Germany.Here he started himself an intensive and highly successful period of works, by writing and illustrating a number of children`s books.As an author and illustrator, Heine ranks today among the artists most renowned internationally; he has had work translated into 35 languages and received numerous honours worldwide. Among his most popular works ranks the little Dragon,
Tabaluga .Helme Heine also writes for adults, draws
cartoon s andanimation s and designs sculptures andfurniture .His summer home is in
Bavaria .In
Böblingen from February 2005, a two-month special exhibition with 136 examples of Helme Heine's work ran, featuringwatercolor art, drawings inIndia ink and pencil sketches, right up to sculptures and a designer game of chess.Awards and prizes
*1983 Oldenburg Child & Youth Book Prize - Illustrations for Gudrun Mäcker "Anna and the Tatzelwurm"
*1991 Grand Prize of the German Child & Youth Literature Academy, e.V.
*European Children's Book PrizeChildren's books
*"Samstag im Paradies" (Saturday in Paradise)
*"Elefanteneinmaleins" ISBN 3-407-77068-5 (Elephant Multiplication Tables)
*"Prinz Bär" (Prince Bear)
*"Freunde" (Friends) ISBN-13: 978-0689710834
*"König Hupf der I." (King Hop the First)
*"Das schönste Ei der Welt" ISBN 3-407-77061-8 (Most beautiful egg in the world)
*"Na warte, sagte Schwarte" (Just wait, said Schwarte)
*"Mullewapp" (Mollywoop) ISBN-13: 978-0374350017
*"Tabaluga "
*"Der Hase mit der roten Nase" ISBN 3-407-77006-5 (The hare with the red nose)
*"Der Club" ISBN 3-407-77023-5 (The club)
*"Foxtrott" ISBN 3-446-20306-0 (Foxtrot)
*"Friends Go Adventuring" ISBN-13: 978-0689818509ee also
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Ralph Steadman
* Heinrich HannoverWorks about Helme Heine
*Karola Kimmerle: "Die Freunde von Helme Heine." München: Ridinghaus (ca. 2001). ISBN 3-7421-3500-7 (The Friends of Helme Heine)
*Maren Saam: "Literatur-Werkstatt zum Kinderbuch von Helme Heine "Freunde"." Mülheim an der Ruhr: Verl. an der Ruhr 2004. ISBN 3-86072-907-1 (Literature - Children's Books of Helme Heine)External links
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* [http://www.beltz.de/catalog/autor.asp?AutorID=5027 Biography (mit Foto)]
* [http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/810433 Ausstellung Helme Heine in Böblingen (bis April 2005)]
* [http://www.leonberger-kreiszeitung.de/cgi-bin/directcontent/service/haupt/top-themen/zz_extras/kaltscha/9.shtml Interview 15. Februar 2005]
* [http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/13482.html Rezension zu "Foxtrott" in der FAZ]
* [http://www.hoergold.de/audiobooks/listings/index.htx?f_rhid=154 Hörspiele]
* [http://www.bavaria-sonor.de/de_lizenz.php?id_lang=1&id_artikel=0000000102 Designer und Hörspielautor HH]******************
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