- Uwe Kreisel
Uwe Kreisel (IPA /u:və krīsl/) (born 1961 in
Mannheim, Germany ) is a writer and textbook author in the fields oflinguistics ,ESL , and cross-cultural topics. He is also an expert in instructional design (courseware, textbooks, e-learning) and curriculum planning.He is a member of the German artists’ guilds
VG Wort andVG Bild und Kunst and has held fellowships from theGerman Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . His work today centers on textbook development and the visual communication of knowledge objects.Kreisel's travel books focus on cross-cultural interferences and aim at providing practical solutions for the many pitfalls of traveling abroad. His books, all published in Germany, have been in reviewed by major newspapers, such as 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung' and 'Die Zeit'.
Uwe Kreisel is an outspoken critic of so-called productivity software. Quote: 'The most devastating consumer products of the 20th century are, arguably, the motorcar and word-processing software.' While cars and their internal combustions engines pollute, crowd our cities and cause thousands of fatalities, word processors such as 'Word' impose hundreds of assumptions on cognitive structure on the user ('AutoFormat', 'AutoCorrect').
As a cartoonist, Uwe Kreisel illustrated several of his own books. In 2006, he was a winner of Nintendo of America's "
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon" art contest with a tongue-in-cheek cartoon onFranz Kafka 's 1915 novellaThe Metamorphosis .Mr. Kreisel currently resides in
Jemgum , East Frisia, in the Upper Northwest of Germany. He also travels around the world, researching new books.Bibliography
Kreisel's
Washington University in St. Louis MA thesis was "Chaos and Ordo." (1984).His first publications were cartoons and comics in small fanzines. The first book, published together with Pamela Ann Tabbert, was "English One" (1992). It is still available today on CD-ROM. Most of the books below were written with Pamela Ann Tabbert and published by Rowohlt Publishing (Reinbek, Germany) or Hueber Publishing (Ismaning, Germany).
* 1992: "English One". ISBN 3-499-19320-5
* 1993: "English Two". ISBN to be added
* 1996: "Net Jargon". ISBN 3-499-19854-1
* 1997: "E-mail English". ISBN 3-499-19876-2
* 1997: "Ultimate Idioms". ISBN 3-499-19586-0
* 2000: "Fluessiges Englisch". ISBN 3-499-61183-X
** 5th Edition published 2007".
* 2002: "American Slang in letzter Minute". ISBN 3-499-19623-9
* 2003: "Kulturschluessel USA". ISBN 3-19-006000-2
* 2003: "MultiLingua Classics: English One & Two, 2 CD-ROMs". ISBN 3-8032-5300-4
** updated edition, 1st edition published 1995
* 2004: "Viimase minuti ameerika släng". ISBN 9985-76-806-X
** Estonian version of "American Slang"
* 2004: "Kulturschluessel China". ISBN 3-19-005366-9
* 2007: "China erleben und verstehen". ISBN 978-3-19-006001-6External links
* [http://www.kreisels.de Uwe Kreisel's website]
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