HOMER / DIE ODYSSEE
(an old legend retold / paperback new edition) ) Ernst Klett Vlg., Leipzig 2004
"U.K. has rendered the world-famous odes of Homer's Odyssey into modern prose. Free from the ballast of superfluous repetitions his version unites superbly Homer's poetry with legibility.
Complented with an informative introduction and a comprehensive appendix even the grown-up fans of Ulysses will have fun reading it once more in this new attire."
His complete prose retelling of Homers Odyssey was taken into account in the complete German linguistic area. 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).
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THE SCARY SLEEPOVER
A children's book (ages: 3 - 7)
with illustrations by Uli Waas, translated by J. Alison James
North-South Books, New York 2002
"A picture book not only for Halloween, but for each time you want to talk about how much fun it is to have a good scare."
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German original: GEISTERSTUNDE IM KINDERGARTEN
Rights: Edition Jürgen Lassig c/o Nord-Süd Verlag
CH-Gossau & D-Hamburg 2002
Other translations at Éditions Nord-Sud (french), De Vier Windstreken (dutch), Nord-Sud Edizioni (italian) and Kres (slovenian)

KINDSKOPF
Eine Heimsuchung (novella or a Jonah-paraphrase).
dahlemer verlagsanstalt, Berlin 2002
"Ulrich Karger gets quite new looks for the novella into 'Kindskopf'.
Ulrich Karger and the German south - an outrageous event!
Nothing for postmodern big kids."
Klaas Huizing
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KopfSteinPflasterEchos
(grotesque stories with a cycle of pictures by KOLIBRI)
Klaus Bielefeld Vlg., Friedland 1999
"Grotesques from the real life:
unbelievable,
foolhardy,
well pasted and despite all good for a laugh.
The dance of the "Kopffüßler" by KOLIBRI, a picture cycle internationally acclaimed in exhibitions and events. Full of subversive poetry. Astonishing an familiar exclusively for this book!"
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