Andrea Schwendemann

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Andrea Schwendemann (born July 1, 1971 in Triberg in the Black Forest ) is a German author , journalist and copywriter .

Life

Andrea Schwendemann was born and raised in the Black Forest. After graduating from high school, she lived and worked in Brazil and Ireland , then studied German and geography in Cologne and Freiburg. She volunteered at a magazine publisher in Freiburg, where she then worked as an editor for four years. In 2006 she was appointed editor-in-chief of National Geographic World ( Gruner + Jahr ), and from 2010 she worked in the same position for GEOlino Extra (Gruner + Jahr). In 2012 she started her own business and since then has headed the Text & Concept office in Freiburg and is co-owner of the children's media office in Hamburg.

Schwendemann has published around 20 children's non-fiction books which, according to their own statements, have sold 100,000 times and which are translated into Dutch, Spanish, Danish, Polish and other languages. She is on a reading tour with her works and is a guest at Lit.Cologne , the Leipzig Book Fair , the Frankfurt Book Fair , the Munich Book Show , and the Ravensburger Reading Festival .

In addition to children's books, she writes reports and interviews for National Geographic , Flow, Die Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Spiegel Online and MagazinSCHULE . She also works as a copywriter.

Schwendemann is married and lives in Freiburg and Hamburg.

Works

Books (selection)

  • Horses (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen, Volume 4, Ravensburger 2013), ISBN 978-3473327195
  • “Surfing, chatting, posting, blogging”, Fischer Meyers Children's Book, Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3737370011
  • Rescuers in action (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen, Volume 10, Ravensburger 2014), ISBN 978-3473327256
  • Body (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen, Volume 5, Ravensburger 2014), ISBN 978-3473327201
  • Crime on the trail (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen, Volume 11, Ravensburger 2015), ISBN 978-3473327263
  • Ravensburger Children's Atlas Germany: Federal States, People and Animals , Ravensburger Buchverlag 2015, ISBN 978-3473553969
  • The fascination of flying (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen, Volume 14, Ravensburger 2015), ISBN 978-3473327294
  • Ravensburger Children's Atlas Europe: Countries, People, Animals and Records , Ravensburger-Buchverlag 2016, ISBN 978-3473554355
  • Football (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen, Volume 15, Ravensburger 2016), ISBN 978-3473326501
  • "1000 meters of toilet paper and four glasses full of ear wax" , FISCHER Meyers Children's Book, Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3737371759
  • Cats (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen, Volume 18, Ravensburger 2016), ISBN 978-3473326570
  • A manual for adventurers, privateers and pirates , Ravensburger Buchverlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-473-55440-9
  • Germany (Wieso? Why? Why? ProfiWissen, Volume 21, Ravensburger, 2017), ISBN 978-3473554409
  • Films, books and other media (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen, Volume 23, Ravensburger, 2018), ISBN 978-3473329281
  • The word savior hodgepodge. About chocolates, penny foxes and smombies. FISCHER Meyer's children's book. Frankfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3737372039

Audiobooks (selection)

  • Horses (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen), radio play, JUMBO Neue Medien & Verlag GmbH, 2015, ISBN 978-3833732164
  • Rescuers in action (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen), radio play, JUMBO Neue Medien & Verlag GmbH 2016, ISBN 978-3833736513
  • Football (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen), radio play, JUMBO Neue Medien & Verlag GmbH 2016, ISBN 978-3833735455
  • Germany (Wieso? Why? Why? ProfiWissen), radio play, JUMBO Neue Medien & Verlag GmbH 2017, ISBN 978-3833737640
  • Body (Why? Why? Why? ProfiWissen), radio play, JUMBO Neue Medien & Verlag GmbH 2018, ISBN 978-3833738548

Awards

  • BuchStapler competition 2017: 1000 meters of toilet paper and 4 glasses full of ear wax. The book of sensational records and facts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ text & concept homepage. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Children's Media Office. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Book stacker competition. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwendemann, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, journalist and copywriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Triberg in the Black Forest