Nicola Vollkommer

Nicola Vollkommer, May 2018

Nicola Vollkommer (* April 1959 in Leicester as Nicola Sperry) is an author of Christian devotional and children's books as well as biographies and novels.

Life

Nicola Vollkommer was born as the second daughter of the British management consultant Roy Edward Sperry and his German wife Hella from Pomerania. She was eighteen months old when she and her parents came to the small African town of Bukuru / Nigeria, where her father worked as the finance director for a British company until 1978. Her childhood and adolescence were strongly influenced by the traumatic experiences of a civil war in Nigeria, which had recently become independent and which culminated in the Biafra War in 1966 . In 1971 she went to an English boarding school and then studied French and German at Girton College in Cambridge . At Hurlach Castle she then attended a discipleship school run by the mission organization Youth with a Mission . In 1981 she returned to Germany for a year abroad to study German, where she met her husband, who was studying biology and chemistry for teaching in Tübingen.

Vollkommer teaches music and English at the Free Evangelical School in Reutlingen. She is the author of several books, children's books and Christian novels. In 2009 she presented her first work with "Eddie". Her autobiography "Under the Flame Tree: where my soul had its nest" is an experience report from her time in Africa. In 2011, “On the Edge of the Frozen World” was published, the story of her uncle, who for years under the most adverse circumstances shared his life with the Eskimos on the northernmost edge of Canada. "Leon and the struggle for the golden heart" is intended to help children deal with the subject of suffering and suffering.

Vollkammer works as a speaker at women's days and at breakfast meetings for women. Once a month she organizes an event for children in the Reutlingen City Library in the series "Story Time - the English reading hour". She became known regionally for her self-composed plays, musicals and children's songs.

Private

Since their wedding in 1982, Nicola Vollkommer has lived with her husband Helmut and their four children in Reutlingen , where the couple founded the "Christian Community Reutlingen" association after completing a theological training in England and have been running it ever since.

Publications

• Under the flame tree: where my soul had its nest (autobiography; experience report from Africa), SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7751-5250-1 ; 2013 edition, ISBN 978-3-7751-5515-1 .
• On the edge of the frozen world: the story of John Sperry, Bishop of the Arctic , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-7751-5307-2 .
• Wonder Christmas , SCM Collection, Witten 2011, ISBN 978-3-7893-9512-3 .
• How I learned to see chaos through God's eyes: Devotions for Mothers , SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2014, ISBN 978-3-417-26575-0 .
• People who move the world: discovering the secret of spiritual role models , SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2014, ISBN 978-3-417-26602-3 .
• Living at a richly laid table - from disappointment in faith to total devotion , SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2016, ISBN 978-3-417-26782-2 .
• From woman to woman. A Bible course , Rigatio Verlag, Burbach 2018, ISBN 978-3-95790-035-7 .
• The desire to belong. The end of loneliness and how God thought it would be with community , SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2019, ISBN 978-3-417-26867-6 .

Children's books

• Eddie you are safe with me , SCM Hänssler , Holzgerlingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7751-4982-2 .
• Tilo's Adventure on the River , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7751-5123-8 .
• Eddie you are wonderful , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7751-5177-1 .
• Leon and the struggle for the golden heart , (Series: SCM Kläxbox) SCM R. Brockhaus , Witten 2012, ISBN 978-3-417-28507-9 .

Novels

• Like seagulls in the wind , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7751-5583-0 .
• The return of the heir , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7751-5785-8 .

as a co-author

• Animal stories for first-time readers (with Sonja Kientsch and Elisabeth Vollmer), SCM Bundes-Verlag, Witten 2017, ISBN 978-3-417-28776-9 .
• For guidance , in: Ottilie Wildermuth : In happy and in tired times. Rhyming and narrated. A reading book, ed. by Jonathan and Ulrike Schilling, SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2017, pp. 5–7, ISBN 978-3-7751-5768-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nicola Vollkommer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Nicola Vollkommer  in the German Digital Library
• Nicola Vollkommer: Homepage
• Project: Eddie
• Project: community

Individual evidence

1. ^ To Germany with Humor , IdeaSpektrum , category: Christ & Leben, issue 13 of March 31, 2016, pp. 20–22.
2. ↑ The Long Farewell to Africa ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), swp.de, article from September 14, 2010.
3. ↑ The Reutlinger Nicola Vollkommer presents her first work with "Eddie" , article from March 4, 2009 from Südwest Aktiv .
4. ↑ Vollkommer: Vita , scmedien.de
5. ↑ Women's Day of the LZA , lza.de, accessed on March 12, 2016.
6. ↑ Consultant at breakfast meetings for women , fruehstueckstreffen.de, accessed on March 12, 2016.
7. ↑ "Story Time - the English reading lesson" ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
8. ↑ Nicola Vollkommer: Zu Gast , stadtbibliothek-reutlingen.de, accessed on May 4, 2019.
9. ↑ Always at home far away , gea.de, article from September 4, 2010.