Hermann Schulz (writer)

Hermann Schulz at the Angel Festival in Wuppertal, 2013

Hermann Schulz (born July 21, 1938 in Nkalinzi , Tanzania ) is a German writer and former publisher .

Life

Hermann Schulz was born as the son of a German missionary in East Africa , but grew up in Germany. He went to a bookseller in the mining and worked in the hired house as a tractor . After a trip around the world, he was the successor to the future Federal President Johannes Rau and headed the Peter Hammer Verlag in Wuppertal from 1967 to 2001 . Hermann Schulz is a regular contributor to the AMOS magazine in the field of literature and international understanding; he is also active in the Christian-Islamic Working Group Marl . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

• On the Stream , 1998
• Iskender , 1999
• Sun Nebula , 2000
• His first fish , 2000
• Escape through Winter , 2002
• When a Leo asks you the time , 2003
• Back to Kilimatinde , 2003
• You don't steal the monkey skin from the king (children's book), 2003
• No more fun , 2004
• An apple for God , 2004
• Lay down your heart , 2005
• When a Leo asks you the time , 2006
• The silver jaguar , 2007
• The clever Mama Sambona , 2008
• Mandela & Nelson, Das Länderspiel (children's book), 2010
• Why we wanted to kill Günter , 2013
• Mandela & Nelson, The Second Leg (children's book), 2013
• The night of Dar es Salaam , 2014
• The boy is already sleeping. Wendland stories 2015
• Waypoints. In "Paternoster - From the ups and downs of life" 2015
• The trip to Egypt with illustrations by Tobias Krejtschi, 2016
• Lady Happy and the Wizard of Ukerewe , 2016

Awards

• From the Heydt Culture Prize 1982
• Hermann Kesten Medal 1998
• Art and culture prize for international understanding 2001 for Iskender
• 2018 - Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Schulz: Awarded an honorary doctorate. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on April 30, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Hermann Schulz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hermann Schulz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Hermann Schulz at perlentaucher.de
• Overview of reviews of books by Hermann Schulz at Jugendbuchtipps.de
• "Bookmark. Messages from the Reading Center ” (PDF; 396 kB), series Children's literature in conversation, Heidelberg University of Education , Issue 13, 2003, pp. 7–37. Ext. Conversation with H. Sch. about his books for young people and the publisher
• www.deutschlandfunk.de