Ulrich Karger; short vita

Born in 1957 in Berchtesgaden (Bavaria, Germany), Ulrich Karger lives in Berlin and is employed as a teacher of religion at a school for speech disabled children. His publications as a writer are directed at children and adults.

Beside other several languages is his picture book for children 'Geisterstunde im Kindergarten' (= The Scary Sleepover) being published in English.
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).
The experts within the adult readership also have already learned to appreciate his novella Kindskopf, this one brushes the biblical Jona text against the line and "reflects the argumentation patterns of the economy miracle generation building up on this in one of impressive studies of the environment" (Hans Mendl).

For years he has been writing also book reviews. In 1999 Ulrich Karger established the Büchernachlese (= German book reviews). Published since 1985 in numerous daily papers and town magazines, all his reviews are approachable in the "Büchernachlese". At present he discusses current book titles for the Berlin daily paper 'Der Tagesspiegel' and the theological professional journal 'Religion heute'.
He is a member of VS Berlin (writers' association within the German trade union ver.di).

ATTENTION!: This site is a single part of a homepage to introduce the German author Ulrich Karger. Only the few links at the right of the portrait-logo lead to some further sites in English. ALL THE OTHER LINKS LEAD TO SITES IN GERMAN!

Following titles are currently available in bookstores:

DICKE LUFT IN HALBUNDHALB
children's book, Edition Gegenwind / BoD, Norderstedt 2011
VOM UHRSPRUNG und anderen Merkwürdigkeiten
fairytale satires, Edition Gegenwind / BoD, Norderstedt 2010
HOMER / DIE ODYSSEE
an old legend retold, Ernst Klett Verlag, Leipzig 2004
KINDSKOPF
novella, dahlemer verlagsanstalt / Berlin 2002
THE SCARY SLEEPOVER
children's picture book, North-South Books / New York 2002

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