Harald Tondern

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Harald Tondern (born June 29, 1941 in Kupfermühle , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German author and translator for young people.

Life

Tondern published his first short stories while he was still at school. He passed his Abitur in Itzehoe. He studied in Hamburg, Paris and Göttingen, first literature, then economics. Today he lives as a freelance author and writing coach in Hamburg and on the North Sea. In addition to stories in magazines and anthologies, Tondern has written numerous novels and radio plays. In the 1960s he wrote three novels under the pseudonym Garret Shaver Jr. for in Erich Pabel Verlag , Rastatt , published science fiction - booklet series " Utopia science fiction ".

Tondern is very active in promoting reading and writing. His reading and workshop trips took him to India and South Africa. Tondern is the honorary managing director of the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis in Hamburg eV Most of his novels for children and young people have teachers' books by the Hamburg literary didactic Ingrid Röbbelen.

Works

as Garret Shaver Jr.
  • Schiff im Magnetsturm , (Utopia Zukunftsroman 555), 1967
  • Emergency call from Beta-12 , (Utopia Zukunftsroman 567), 1968
  • The red rulers , (Utopia science fiction 591), 1968
Children's books
  • Dog rose summer , 1990
  • The fish at the door , 1994
  • Revenge of the Ravens (together with Frederik Hetmann ), 1995
Youth books
  • Colombian Connection , 1979
  • Noah , 1983
  • Zeitsprung (together with Frederik Hetmann), 1984
  • Greetings from the future (together with Frederik Hetmann), 1991
  • The trap , 1991
  • Kristian Menschenhelfer (together with Frederik Hetmann), 1993
  • The night that never came to an end (with Frederik Hetmann), 1994
  • Giovanni, Aysche and others (together with Ingrid Röbbelen), 1995
  • On a crash course (together with Ingrid Röbbelen), 1995
  • The mission , 1996
  • The horse without a rider (together with Frederik Hetmann), 1997
  • A love in Nagasaki (together with Frederik Hetmann), 1998
  • Woe to you say something , 2000
  • White Angel , 2000
  • Poets live - from Grimmelshausen to Fontane (together with Frederik Hetmann and Ingrid Röbbelen), 2000
  • Poets live - from Rilke to Grass (together with Frederik Hetmann and Ingrid Röbbelen), 2001
  • Jana and Ben or The Dream of Big Money , 2003
  • Party - all inclusive , 2004
  • Complicit? The story of a rampage , 2005
  • The Amsterdam trip , 2006
  • Poets live - 35 portraits from Grimmelshausen to Grass (together with Frederik Hetmann and Ingrid Röbbelen), 2008
  • The Camp - Nightmare Bootcamp , 2010
  • F eggs capricious - A Facebook Party , 2013
Radio plays
  • The night that never ended , 1996
  • Short circuit , 1997
  • The band , 2002
  • The lonely house , 2006
Translations
  • Leonardo Wild: Unemotion , 1996
  • Janet Tashjian : Days with Eddy (Tru Confessions), 1999
  • Paul Many: Like In The Wrong Movie (My Life, Take Two), 2001

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Tondern, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaver Jr., Garrett (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and translator for young people
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kupfermühle , Schleswig-Holstein