Karl Rolf Seufert

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Former home of the writer Karl Rolf Seufert in Hallgarten in the Rheingau
Tomb in the Hallgarten cemetery

Karl Rolf Seufert ( pseudonym : Charles Hallgarten ; born December 1, 1923 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 18, 1992 in Eltville am Rhein ) was a German writer .

Life

Karl Rolf Seufert studied German and history . After military service and imprisonment, he lived in Hallgarten in the Rheingau from 1945 until his death , where he was also buried. He worked as a teacher at the primary school in Oestrich . Seufert made extensive trips, especially to Africa and East Asia .

Karl Rolf Seufert's literary work includes numerous books for young people ; In addition to several historical novels , he wrote mainly cultural-historical non-fiction and narrative reports on explorers of the 19th and 20th centuries and their expeditions in Asia , Africa and America . Seufert also processed his own travels, especially those that took him to China in 1966 , in book form. Karl Rolf Seufert, whose works were on the shortlist for the German Youth Book Prize several times , received a. a. 1962 the Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize and 1974 the Kurt Lütgen Non-Fiction Prize .

Works

  • The caravan of white men , Freiburg i. Br. [U. a.] 1961
  • The towers of Mecca , Freiburg i. Br. [U. a.] 1963
  • The art of Gutenberg , Eltville am Rhein 1964
  • The Palace of Spirits , Zurich 1965
  • The forgotten Buddhas , Freiburg i. Br. [U. a.] 1965
  • The year in the steppe , Freiburg i. Br. [U. a.] 1967
  • The mountain of spirits , Vienna 1969
  • The mysterious sedan chair , Vienna 1969
  • Among desert robbers , Zurich 1970
  • Adventure Africa , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1971
  • To China and back , Baden-Baden 1971
  • And tomorrow to Nimrud , Würzburg 1971
  • Your ride to Lhasa , Würzburg 1972
  • The Treasures of Copán , Würzburg 1972
  • Three thousand years of Africa , Baden-Baden 1973
  • Through the black continent , Würzburg 1973
  • Ninety days to Harar , Würzburg 1973
  • The secret of Lualaba , Würzburg 1974
  • Advance to the Middle Kingdom , Würzburg 1975
  • The adventures are not over yet , Würzburg 1977
  • The road of wild adventures , Würzburg 1978
  • On the move on many roads , Würzburg 1979
  • Path of Tears , Würzburg 1980
  • Against the wind to the west , Bayreuth 1981
  • And somewhere else tomorrow , Würzburg 1981
  • ... is a fine country , Bad Schwalbach 1983
  • The riddle of the big stones , Würzburg 1983
  • Rheingau impressions , Eltville am Rhein 1987
  • They came from midnight , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1987
  • Gold under the hills , Bindlach 1987
  • The sign from Lambarene , Bindlach 1988
  • Magic of blue light , Bindlach 1989
  • Departure on the holy river , Bindlach 1990
  • Course west! , Bindlach 1992
  • Towards the wind , Bindlach 1994

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1988. 60th year, Gruyter, Berlin [et al.] 1988
  • Kurt Böttcher, Herbert Greiner-Mai , Harald Müller and Hannelore Prosche (eds.): Lexicon of German-language writers. Volume 2, Olms, Hildesheim [et al.] 1993.
  • Josef Roßkopf: Karl Rolf Seufert . In: Hallgarten through the ages , Walter´s printing works Eltville. ISBN 3-921865-07-7

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personal data
SURNAME Seufert, Karl Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallgarten, Charles (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1992
Place of death Eltville on the Rhine