Carolin Philipps

Carolin Philipps (born January 7, 1954 in Meppen ) is a German writer for young people and studied historian .

Life

Her first book about the German neo-Nazi scene (published in 1990), Grandfather and the Fourth Reich , was translated into several languages ​​and was made into a film for the mdr . 2000 Carolin Philipps was for her book latte and crumb cake with Unesco for peace and tolerance Mentioning Award excellent. Her books have appeared in 20 languages. Again and again she writes books that are specifically intended for German lessons in schools and that deal with youth-friendly topics. These books appeared e.g. Sometimes also as special volumes for special needs schools .

She spent the summer of 2005 in a home for homeless youth in Bucharest doing research for her book Dreams Living Everywhere . In the fall of 2006 she drove for The Tree of Tears in the car along the Mexican border with the USA , accompanied illegal immigrants on their way and had their fates told. In May 2008 she was awarded the Austrian Youth Book Prize for this work . It was also on the shortlist for the German Youth Book Prize 2007 of the Young Readers jury. In 2007 she lived for four weeks in a cave on Easter Island to research the history of the leprosy station that was once there .

In 2004 her first adult novel was published. Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark . The doctor's lover describes the life of Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark. For her work Friederike von Preußen - the passionate sister of Queen Luise , published in 2007, she evaluated Philip's source material and letters. She conducted writing workshops in German-speaking countries at the invitation of the Goethe Institute and in Indonesia . In 2009 she was a juror at the reading competition of the German book trade. In April 2010, in keeping with the Luise year, her new historical book Luise - The Queen and Her Siblings was published . Here, too, she resorted to previously unpublished source material. In 2010 she won the Swiss Bookstar for Made in Vietnam . In 2011 she was awarded the Austrian Youth Book Prize for What the Words Missing For and won the Annalize Wagner Prize for Luise - The Queen and Her Siblings .

Works

• Grandfather and the Fourth Reich. Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 1990, ISBN 3-473-58057-0
• There are no water buffalos in the supermarket. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-451-22303-1
• The second process. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-451-22894-7
• Milk coffee and crumble cake . With pictures by Silke Brix . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1996. ISBN 3-8000-2455-1
• Who laughs has no idea. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-8000-2499-3
• The test of courage. Hase and Igel, Ismaning 2001 ISBN 3-86760-010-4
• Between crown and passion - Caroline Mathilde of Denmark . Ueberreuter, 2003
• Mai-Linh - When enemies become friends. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8000-5081-1
• White flowers in the Yellow River. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2004 ISBN 3-8000-5104-4
• Martin under pressure. Hase and Igel, Ismaning 2004 ISBN 3-86760-028-7
• Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark. The mistress of the personal physician. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-492-24369-X
• The fourth empire. Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2005, ISBN 3-473-58229-8 (Ravensburger paperback)
• Dreams live everywhere. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-8000-5210-5
• Caesar's geek shop. Hase and Igel, Munich 2006 ISBN 3-86760-045-7
• Friederike von Prussia - The passionate sister of Queen Luise. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-05126-2
• A stranger becomes my friend. Arena, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-401-02737-1
• The tree of tears. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-8000-5345-2
• Bats don't bite. Hase and Igel, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86760-090-3
• Made in Vietnam. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-8000-5421-3
• What words are missing for. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-8000-5533-3
• Luise - the queen and her siblings. Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25854-8
• The valley of the blind angels. Provincial Library, Weitra 2010, ISBN 978-3-85252-110-7
• Second face. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-8000-5610-1
• Don't cry, princess! Ueberreuter, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-8000-5666-8
• Planet Mia Hase and Igel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86760-155-9
• The Dark Countess - The Secret About Marie Antoinette's Daughter . Piper, Munich 2012
• You pay the price for my life . Ueberreuter 2013
• Sorry, no photo for you today, baby . Ueberreuter 2014
• Therese von Bayern A queen between love, duty and resistance Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-30444-3
• Thalitha , Vienna 2014
• Anna Amalia von Weimar - regent, artist and friend of Goethe . Piper, Munich 2019
• Amina: my life as a boy . Ueberreuter, Berlin 2019

Web links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Carolin Philipps in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austrian Children's and Young People's Book Prize 2008 ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.