Harald Braem

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Harald Braem ( pseudonym : Wolfram vom Stein , born July 23, 1944 in Berlin ) is a German designer , writer , cultural scientist and color psychologist .

Life

Braem spent his childhood in Allendorf in the Westerwald . From 1949 he attended elementary school and a grammar school in Hildesheim . From 1962 he then studied graphics at the University of Applied Sciences for Communication Design in Hildesheim and at the Advertising Academy in Hanover . He worked as a copywriter and creative director in advertising agencies . From 1981 to 2000 he was professor for communication and design at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences . His specialty is color psychology . Braem is a member of the Professional Association of German Psychologists . In 2005 he received the Medal of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . In 2006 he founded the Institute for Color Psychology in Bettendorf. He wrote numerous specialist books, including the standard work "The Power of Colors".

In addition to his teaching activities, Braem is intensively involved in comparative cultural research , as well as in areas such as archeology and early history of the Canary Islands , pyramid research , shamanism and rock art research . From 1988 to 2013 Braem headed the Kult-Ur-Institut for interdisciplinary cultural research . He was the curator of the Bettendorf World Heritage Museum and the initiator of many cultural projects, e. B. Nassauer Kulturpreis, Nastätter Literaturtage, Keltenhof Bettendorf sponsorship group, Limeskastell Pohl, Art & Literature Trail Loreley (KLP).

Another field of activity of Braem is the writing of literary texts. His narrative works are partly of the fantasy genre , partly of the historical novel .

Works

  • A blue moth over the razor blade , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1980
  • "The night of the enchanted cats" and other stories , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1982
  • The power of colors , Munich 1985
  • Dreams in tin and paper , Bern [a. a.] 1985 (together with Manfred Schmidtke)
  • Brainfloating , Munich 1986
  • Morgana or The Search for the Past , Munich 1986
  • Sirius greets the rest of the world , Munich 1987
  • The Lizard Man , Munich 1988
  • On the trail of the Atlantic peoples: The Canary Islands , Munich 1988 (together with Marianne Braem)
  • The lion of Uruk , Munich [u. a.] 1988
  • Selftiming , Munich 1988
  • Zodiak , Munich 1988
  • The Balearic Islands , Munich 1989
  • A summer made of concrete , Würzburg 1989
  • Hem-On, the Egyptian , Munich [u. a.] 1990
  • The coyote in the volcano , Berlin 1990
  • The language of forms , Munich 1990
  • Tanausu - the last king of the Canaries , Munich [u. a.] 1991 (new edition Tanausu, King of the Guanches , Santa Úrsula 2003)
  • Big spider, little spider , Kaiserslautern 1992
  • The magic triangle , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1992
  • Bibliography of German-language literature on international rock art research , Lollschied 1994 (together with Thomas Schulte im Walde)
  • The Lord of Fire , Munich [u. a.] 1994
  • The magical world of shamans and cave painters , Cologne 1994
  • Der Vulkanteufel , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1994
  • The Hotel zum Schwarzen Prinzen , Munich [u. a.] 1995
  • Magical rites and cults , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1995
  • The Wunderberg , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1996 (under the name Wolfram vom Stein)
  • The King of Tara , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1997
  • Palaces, temples, hieroglyphs , Bindlach 1997 (together with Christof Heil)
  • On the coasts of longing , Bettendorf 1999
  • The blue land , Stuttgart [u. a.] 2000
  • Frogmusic , Plön 2001
  • My steppe is on fire , Bettendorf 2006
  • In the footsteps of the natives. An archaeological travel guide for the Canary Islands , Zech Verlag, Santa Úrsula 2008, revised new edition 2018
  • Death in Barranco, Tenerife 2012
  • The dragonfly man, Tübingen 2016
  • over 600 individual publications, including in school books

Movies

Collaboration on various TV documentaries, among others

  • Terra X "The Islands of the Dragon Tree", 1990
  • "The Lord of Signs", 1996
  • "Thor Heyerdahl - On the trail of the Guanches", 2001
  • "The Guanche Researcher", 2004
  • "Color Psychology: Discover Your Comfortable Environment", 2009 (awarded the World Media Award)
  • "Thirteen Storms", 2010
  • Terra X "The Magic of Colors", 2015

Film adaptation of his novel "Der Vulkanteufel" as "Der Feuerläufer", 1998 (director: Rainer Matsutani); as "Los Diablos del Volcan" 1998; "Curse of the Volcano" 1998; Russian: "The Curse of the Volcano", 2003

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personal data
SURNAME Braem, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin