Jutta Richter

Jutta Richter (born September 30, 1955 in Burgsteinfurt , Westphalia ) is a German author of children's and youth literature .

Life

Jutta Richter spent her youth in the Ruhr area and Sauerland . She attended the Mariengymnasium Arnsberg . At the age of 15 she went to Detroit ( USA ) for a year . In order not to forget her mother tongue, she wrote her first book there, which she published as a student.

After a study of theology , German literature and journalism in Münster she lives since 1978 as a freelance writer in Ascheberg and in Lucca in Tuscany .

She has received numerous awards for her stories, which are mainly aimed at children and young people. a. received the German Youth Literature Prize . In addition, she writes radio plays, children's plays and songs, such as B. sometimes sings in her audio book Witches Forest and Magic Socks herself.

Jutta Richter was married to Ralf Thenior and has one daughter.

Awards

• 2000 Pied Piper Prize for Literature for The Dog with the Yellow Heart or The Story of the Opposite
• 2000 LYNX of the year for The day I learned to tame the spiders
• 2001 International UNESCO Prize nomination list for The Dog with the Yellow Heart
• 2001 German Youth Literature Award for The Day When I Learned To Tame The Spiders
• 2004 LYNX of the month of August for pike summer
• 2004 Peter September harvest for pike summer
• 2004 Calwer Hermann Hesse Scholarship
• 2005 Catholic children's and youth book award for Pike Summer
• 2006 The best 7 books for young readers in November 2006 for The Cat or How I Lost Eternity
• 2007 Premio Andersen / Italian Children's Book Prize for The Cat or How I Lost Eternity
• 2008 Mildred L. Batchelder Award / Honor Book / American Children's Literature Award for The Cat or How I Lost Eternity

Works

picture books

• Give me a kiss, Mrs. Nut! Illustrations by Paul Maar . Oetinger Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3-7891-6050-4 .
• Mr. Oska and the cirrus . Illustrations by Barbara Schumann . Middelhauve Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-7876-9552-4 .
• On the very longest night . Kontakt-Musikverlag, 1999, with music by Reinhard Horn .
• Heads up! Illustrations by Sabine Büchner . Sanssouci Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8363-0166-4 .

Children's books

• What do we do now? Or the strange adventures of the yellow sewer rat and the plaid guinea pig . Thienemann Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-522-15040-6 .
• The Tontilon . Thienemann Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-522-15100-3 .
• Summer tastes like raspberry ice cream. Poems and rhymes for young and old . Bertelsmann Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-570-04118-2 .
• Witch forest and magic socks . Oetinger Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-7891-4601-3 .
• Prinz Neumann or other children are called like their father . Beltz Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-407-80170-X .
• Satemin silk foot. A love story . Loewe Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7855-2201-0 .
• Annabella Klimperauge. Stories from the nursery . Bertelsmann Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-570-04049-6 .
• The dog with the yellow heart or The story of the opposite . Hanser Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-446-19258-1 .
• A child lived in the trees . With CD from Konstantin Wecker . Illustrations by Katrin Engelking . Hanser Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-446-19632-3 .
• The day I learned to tame the spiders . Hanser Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-446-19896-2 .
• The sea lies behind the train station . Hanser Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-446-20042-8 .
• By a large calm lake . Illustrations by Susanne Janssen . Hanser Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-446-20333-8 .
• Pike summer . Hanser Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-446-20518-7 .
• The cat or How I lost forever . Illustrations by Rotraut Susanne Berner . Hanser Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-446-20793-7 .
• The beginning of everything . Illustrations by Jörg Mühle. Hanser Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23096-5 .
• When I was Maria . Illustrations by Jacky Gleich. Hanser Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23591-5 .
• I'm just the dog here . Illustrations by Hildegard Müller. Hanser Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23792-6 .
• The ship in the tree . Hanser Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24018-6 .
• Heroes . Hanser Verlag, 2014.
• I'm just the kid here . Hanser Verlag, 2016.

Youth books

• Popcorn and Stars and Stripes. Diary of an exchange student . Herder Verlag, 1975, ISBN 3-451-17230-5 .
• The doll mothers . Anrich Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-920110-56-0 .
• The geranium prison . Beltz Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-407-80629-9 .
• Heaven, Hell, Purgatory. Attempt at liberation . Beltz Verlag, 1982, ISBN 3-407-80635-3 .
• The holiest world in the world. A year in the life of the Feuerstein family . Illustrations by Jule Ehlers-Juhle and Ben Behnke . Rowohlt Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3-499-15471-4 .

Adult literature

• Don't leave me in cherry time Love poems . Sanssouci, 2000, ISBN 3-7254-1174-3 .
• Summer and bear. A love story . Photographs by Nomi Baumgartl . Sanssouci, 2006, ISBN 3-7254-1427-0 .
• I wish you all of this . Illustrations by Henrike Wilson . Sanssouci, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8363-0012-4 .
• The beginning of everything . Hanser Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23096-5 .

Editorships

• ... and bathe every Saturday. Stories from before . Rowohlt Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-499-20441-X .

literature

• Bruno Blume: Memories of a lost childhood. Attempt a comprehensive review. In: Bulletin Youth and Literature. Geesthacht, Volume 32, H. 2, 2001, p. 21.
• Christoph Meckel: Plagiarism or Ado about Nothing? The debate about Jutta Richter's "Behind the train station is the sea". A documentation. In: Bulletin Youth and Literature. Geesthacht, Volume 33, H. 3, 2002, pp. 7-9, 29-30.
• Juliane Schier: Jutta Richter. Author of children and young people. Life and works. Univ. Hausarb., Dortmund 1999.

Individual evidence

1. ↑  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Interview with Jutta Richter on Deutschlandradio on January 23, 2010 at the end of which a song she sung for Hexenwald and Zaubersocken (Igel Records, 2010) is presented.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jutta Richter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Jutta Richter  in the German Digital Library
• Official website of Jutta Richter