Helmets Heine

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Helme Heine (2014).

Helme Heine (born April 4, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German writer , children's book author , illustrator and designer . He has lived in New Zealand since 1990 , writes audio books and screenplays and creates satirical graphics and sculptures .

Life

Helme (Helmut) Heine was born in Berlin in 1941, his parents were restaurateurs and hoteliers. Helme Heine is the brother of the architect and writer Ernst Wilhelm Heine . He spent his youth in Lübbecke, among other places, and from 1953 in Wülfrath , and by graduating in 1958 he attended thirteen schools. As a schoolboy he was characterized by a “playful, non-conformist and versatile artistic talent”. He then studied business administration and art.

He moved to South Africa in the mid-1960s . He stayed there for over a decade, founded the political-literary cabaret “Sauerkraut” in Johannesburg , published a satirical magazine, and drew and worked as a director, set designer and actor.

In 1975 Helme Heine's first children's book “The Elephant One” was written. In the same year, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, he made contact with the publisher Gertraud Middelhauve , who brought "Das Elefanteneinmaleins" into the trade in 1976. The book was awarded the “Most Beautiful German Books” prize by the Book Art Foundation and appeared on the “Premio Grafico” list of honor . The first big success followed in 1977 with “Well wait, said Schwarte”.

In 1977 Heine returned to Germany with his family and published more than 50 books for children and young people, which were mainly published by Middelhauve, Diogenes , Hanser and Beltz and which were translated into 35 languages. His most famous work is " Friends" from 1982. The world edition of his total works is over 25 million. With Heye Verlag he created a calendar series with a circulation of 4.5 million, which included the first family planner in the early 1990s.

Helme Heine did theater and musical work for the world exhibition in Osaka , designed a theme park for the zoo in Hanover and had numerous exhibitions in Europe, the USA and Asia.

Since 1983, Helme Heine has also developed the figure of the little green dragon Tabaluga with the musician Peter Maffay and the lyricist Gregor Rottschalk . He gave this fantasy creature a graphic form, wrote a suitable Tabaluga story and influenced the story and created costumes for the Tabaluga musical, which was performed in various touring versions in all major halls in Germany. As an en-suite production , the musical “ Tabaluga and Lilli ” was premiered in 1999 in what was then Theatro Centro (today Metronom Theater des CentrO Oberhausen ).

At the end of the 1980s, Heine went to Ireland and finally to New Zealand, where he now lives and works with his wife Gisela von Radowitz in Russell in the Bay of Islands . There he writes novels for adults, audio books and scripts for radio, film and television such as the movie “Mullewapp”, paints and draws, creates sculptures and designs furniture, theater costumes and porcelain, among other things. In his spare time he gardens, sails and fishes.

Helme Heine is committed to the “Friends” foundation named after his most successful picture book, with the aim of comprehensively promoting the life skills of children in early kindergarten age and preventing violence and addiction problems.

As an author and illustrator, Helme Heine is one of the world's most renowned contemporary book artists. His work has received numerous national and international awards.

Awards and honors (selection)

Works (selection)

“Mullewapp” playground at Hanover Zoo based on motifs from the children's book of the same name by Helme Heine

Children's books

Movies

literature

  • Maren Saam: Literature workshop for the children's book by Helme Heine "Friends". Verlag an der Ruhr , Mülheim 2004. ISBN 3-86072-907-1 .
  • Gisela von Radowitz: Dream and Reality - Helme Heine, a portrait. Beltz & Gelberg 2012.

Web links

Commons : Helme Heine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He solved problems with the cleaver , Focus , March 5, 2012.
  2. ↑ "The illustrator has been a fixture in the Heye calendar program for 20 years: Helme Heine is celebrating his 70th birthday" . Book report, March 24, 2011.
  3. ^ New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year, 1952-2002 , November 17, 2002.
  4. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2012/2013, De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, Vol. 2, p. 405.
personal data
SURNAME Heine, helmets
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heine, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German children's book author and designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin