Edgar Sommer

Edgar Sommer (left)

Edgar Sommer (born September 12, 1939 in Danzig ) is a German author and publisher.

Life

After graduating from high school, Edgar Sommer first became a photography student with Otto Steinert . He then completed his studies as a translator and interpreter for Spanish in Stuttgart. He then worked at Krupp-Polysius in Neu-Beckum as a translator and entrepreneur. With "Fenek Expeditions" he organized tours through Tunisia and the northern Sahara. In the long run, however, these were difficult to achieve because the Arab states were unwilling to cooperate with the attack at the Olympic Games in Munich. He founded the Cargo publishing house .

In 2003 he wrote a German work on this ethnic group with Kel Tamashek - The Tuareg . In 2010, Sommer was in charge of the special exhibition "The Tuareg - Water is Life" in the Klimahaus Bremerhaven .
On September 13, 2012, Sommer also gave a lecture in the Klimahaus Bremerhaven on the occasion of the “1st Africa Congress Bremerhaven” on the Sustainable green garden project in Niger . In the summary of the congress, which was held entirely in English, Akpezi Ogbuigwe from the United Nations Environment Program praised the work of Edgar Sommer and his approach on a private level. It was about the "education for sustainable development", which is achieved with the 9000 m ² school garden.

In spring 2014, Sommer published the collection of poems Flight of the Cormorants. Poems about love with works by yourself and by Aleksandra Pristin that answer each other. In the foreword by Hans Georg Bulla it says: “A (...) stroke of luck is this book by Aleksandra Pristin and Edgar Sommer with their poems about love. It is a side-to-side conversation between two about nothing but love. And it's a gamble, because like so long no longer be read. "In the fall of that year appeared with Tango threes a narrative of the author himself as Volume II" Romantic describes series "with flight of cormorants started .
Also at the end of 2014, the publisher published the children's book Wir sind Tuareg by Sommer's wife Heike Miet-Sommer, a work on the Tuareg, his actual main topic, for the first time since 2006.

Publications

author

• 30 years of Africa , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2012, ISBN 978-3-938693-21-6
• I think, therefore I am , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2007, ISBN 3-93869-306-1
• Kel Tamashek - The Tuareg , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2006, ISBN 3-938693-05-3
• Reise in Iceland , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2009, ISBN 3-93869-315-0
• Tafassasset. Regent and magic pictures. Rock paintings of the Sahara and the search for traces of the African spirit , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2002, ISBN 978-3-9805836-4-0
• Tango for three. Cruet à trois. Story , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2014, ISBN 978-3-938693-24-7
• With Aleksandra Pristin: Flight of the cormorants. Poems about love , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2014, ISBN 978-3-938693-22-3
• With Georg Thiem: Private garden paradises in Lower Saxony , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2007, ISBN 3-93869-310-X

publisher

• Degla, Luc: The African Eye , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2006, ISBN 3-93869-308-8
• Grímsdóttir, Vigdís: Bibi , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2011, ISBN 978-9979-656-52-4 .
• Hureiki, Jacques: Tuareg - healing art and spiritual balance , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2004, ISBN 978-3-9805836-5-7
• Joger, Ulrich, Claudia Kamcke: Mammoth. Ice Age Elephants , Schwülper 2005, ISBN 3-93869-304-5
• Joger, Ulrich et al .: Project Dino: The story of the discovery of new dinosaurs in Niger, Africa , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2009, ISBN 3-93869-317-7
• Kleefeld, Barbara: dry season , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2009, ISBN 3-93869-316-9
• Miethe-Sommer, Heike: Tuareg Poesie , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 1994, ISBN 3-98058-361-9
• Miethe-Sommer, Heike: We are Tuareg , illustrated by Marie-Claire Lafosse, Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2014, ISBN 978-3938693-23-0
• Nabel, Gunther: Gesa Petersen - ceramist , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2009, ISBN 3-93869-314-2
• Scherz, Anneliese et al .: Mythos Haar , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 1992, ISBN 3-98058-362-7
• Trzonnek, Gabriele: Heil- und Gewürzkräuter , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2009, ISBN 3-93869-313-4
• Wollmann, Gisela: What do I cook tomorrow? , Cargo Verlag, Schwülper 2005, ISBN 3-93869-300-2

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Tuareg - Water is Life ( Memento from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the city of Bremerhaven. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
2. ^ 1st Africa Congress Bremerhaven ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Literature by and about Edgar Sommer in the catalog of the German National Library