Christoph Werner (writer)

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Christoph Werner (* 1939 in Halle an der Saale ) is a German writer , literary scholar , language teacher and specialist translator .

After graduating from high school in 1957, he studied English and German at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . After working as an English teacher at the Extended High School in Pößneck in Thuringia for two years, he was a university teacher or lecturer at the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg from 1964 to 1984 . During this time he began writing stories that went unpublished. His linguistic activity was reflected in several publications on the English technical language of process engineering .

In 1973 received his doctorate he at the Faculty of Martin Luther University with a thesis on the English writer Howard Spring Dr. phil. From 1984 to 1989 he worked as a freelance translator and language teacher. In 1989 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1990 to 2002 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at the University of Hildesheim . His main areas of work were technical translation as well as the English language and its didactics .

During his time in Hildesheim, Christoph Werner published his first book "The Bronstein Defect and Other Stories". He also wrote numerous stories for “Literamus”, the literary magazine of the Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Christoph Werner has three daughters and lives in Weimar today .

Works

  • The Bronstein Defect and Other Stories . Hildesheim: Cambria 2001, ISBN 3-933585-02-3 . Weimar: Bertuch 2005, ISBN 978-3-937601-18-2 .
  • Castle on the river. The story of the life and death of the builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel ; Novel. Bertuch, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-937601-11-2 .
  • To live forever. Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Mallord William Turner ; Novel. Bertuch, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-937601-34-1 .
  • Buckingham Palace ; Novel. Bertuch, Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-937601-61-8 .
  • Great Expectations. Essay. In: Jarman, Francis (Editor), Culture and Identity ; The Borgo Press, Rockville (MD) 2012, ISBN 978-1-4344-4479-0 .
  • Winter morning - stories and history . Kindle Edition. 2013. Berlin: epubli GmbH, ISBN 978-3-8442-4742-8 .
  • Paul Luther. His life written down by himself ; True novel. Bertuch, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-86397-051-2 .
  • Christmas with the Luther family - Luther's youngest son talks about Christmas . Bertuch Verlag, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-86397-060-4 .
  • Luther in Heaven - The Last Judgment . Bertuch Verlag, Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-86397-068-0 .
  • Shadows of My Father. The Memoirs of Martin Luther's Son. A Novel . HarperCollins 2017, ISBN 978-0-06-284652-5 .
  • To Live in All Eternity. Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Mallord William Turner. A novel. Tredition, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7497-1975-4 .
  • Run along (Stories from the East). Bertuch, Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3-86397-115-1 .
  • Lifting the iron curtain. Tales of a Bygone Country . Tredition GmbH, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7497-8132-4 .
  • Francis Bacon. Empiricist and lord chancellor . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-96311-365-9 .
  • Castle by the River. The Life and Death of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Painter and Master Builder. A novel . Tredition, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-347-04274-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TO LIVE IN ALL ETERNITY | Christoph Werner. Retrieved on August 26, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, literary scholar, language teacher and specialist translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale