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 prose retelling of Homers Odyssey as a book for young people which much also received laudatory words of encouragement from the criticism in the complete German linguistic area is one of his most successful works. "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". 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 programme 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 [ [http://home.arcor.de/karger/uke-rezi.htm Buechernachlese] German Book Reviews by Ulrich Karger] in 1999. Under this have to be called over 1,400 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.

Bibliography

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" (novella or a Jonah-paraphrase) 2002, ISBN 3-928832-12-3

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
*"Homer / Die Odyssee" (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

as editor

*"Briefe von Kemal Kurt". Textenetz|Edition 2007 [ [http://home.arcor.de/karger/textenetz-archiv/n_uk_kurt_kemal_briefe.htm Textenetz.de.vu] "Briefe von Kemal Kurt". Five letters of Kemal Kurt (1947 - 2002) from the year 2001, edited by Ulrich Karger]

References

External links

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* [http://home.arcor.de/karger/uke-indx.htm Homepage] with bibliography, parts of his texts and book reviews