Rolf Schönlau

Rolf Schönlau (born December 18, 1950 in Paderborn ) is a German writer .

Life

Rolf Schönlau grew up in Schlangen in the Lippe district . After graduating from high school , he completed training as a pharmacist assistant . He then studied literature and psychology in Berlin and Munich . He completed this course with a master's degree . Long stays in the Middle East and London followed . Afterwards Schönlau was a member of a translators collective for literary translations from English and lecturer for German as a foreign language .

In 1993 he returned to his hometown, where he has lived as a freelance writer ever since . Schönlau was also press spokesman for the Weser Renaissance Museum in Lemgo .

Rolf Schönlau received the 2000 Literature Prize of the city of Georgsmarienhütte .

Hot iron , Buxtehude 1990
The Euro-Kids , Cologne 1998 (together with Gabriele Knör)
Weser & Renaissance , Holzminden 2007 (together with Michael Bischoff )
Nölting or The Torture of Invention / Novelle from the End of Inventions , Frankfurt am Main 2008 (The Science Novels)
Das Hibernat , radio play, WDR, 2013
Built in OWL: A foray into the history of architecture through East Westphalia-Lippe , Paderborn 2014 (together with Katja Schoene and Michael Bischoff)
World surveyor. The Golden Age of Cartography , Dresden 2015 (together with Michael Bischoff and Vera Lüpkes)
The small world surveyor , Dresden 2015 (together with Michael Bischoff and Vera Lüpkes)
Moon travel. From Lukian to Wikitravel , Holzminden 2015
Daniel Defoe: The Consolidator: Or: Memories of all kinds of events in the world of the moon, translation and epilogue, The Other Library: Berlin 2018
Charles Gildon: Against Defoe. Robinson Crusoe and Freitag confront their author , translation and epilogue, Friedenauer Presse: Berlin 2019