Jürgen Seidel (Author)

Jürgen Seidel (* 1948 in Berlin ) is a freelance author.

After school he trained as a television mechanic. In 1969 he left Germany and went to Australia and Southeast Asia for three years . After his return, he made up his Abitur and studied German and English . After completing his studies, he received a doctorate in Dr. phil. Since then he has worked as a freelance author and from 1988 to 1999 as a lecturer at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a member of the Working Group Literature . Jürgen Seidel has published various prose works, literary publications, radio plays and radio reports to this day. Today Jürgen Seidel lives with his family in Neuss .

Awards

• 1993 Literature Prize of the City of Siegburg
• 1996 Diotima Literature Prize, Neuss

Works (excerpt)

• 1990: The dream continent. James Cook's first circumnavigation of the world, ISBN 978-3462020779
• 1998: Harry Heine and the Morgenländer, ISBN 978-3407788016
• 1998: Georg Büchner, ISBN 978-3423310017
• 2000: Young Nick and the Endeavor Conspiracy, ISBN 3407798040
• 2001: Pickel, Clou and Woyzeck, ISBN 3 407 788584
• 2004: The Soul Plague, ISBN 3407809212
• 2006: The Secret of the Soul Plague , ISBN 978-3407789570
• 2008: The Hundred Lives of Lilly Cavalconti, ISBN 978-3407810281
• 2010: Flowers for the Guide, ISBN 978-3-570-13874-8
• 2010: Wahnsinnsspiel (formerly Pickel, Clou and Woyzeck), ISBN 978-3-407-74221-6
• 2012: The Innocents, ISBN 978-3-570-40137-8
• 2013: The perpetrator's paradise, ISBN 978-3-570-15577-6
• 2014: The War and the Maiden, ISBN 978-3-570-15763-3

source

• Interview at Already read?
• Author description at the Randomhouse publishing group

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Seidel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview at Already read?
• Homepage of the author