Sigrid Heuck

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Sigrid Heuck (born May 11, 1932 in Cologne ; † October 2, 2014 in Bad Tölz ) was a German writer and illustrator .

Life

Grabenmühle near Rampertshofen

Sigrid Heuck grew up on her mother's pony farm in a town on Bergstrasse ; from 1949 she lived in the Grabenmühle, a historic building in Upper Bavaria near Dietramszell - Rampertshofen . Sigrid Heuck attended a fashion school in Munich from 1949 ; she then completed a degree in commercial graphics at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts . She worked for various advertising agencies , but then moved to the illustrating of children's books . Since 1959 she has been a freelance writer and illustrator.

Sigrid Heuck's extensive work includes illustrations for his own and others' picture book texts, and narrative works for children and young people . While her children's books are strongly influenced by the author's closeness to nature - who also wrote a number of titles from the horse book genre - her youth books are partly about fantastic literature (Said's story) , adventure literature (moon hunters) and the historical novel ( Meister Joachims Secret and Die alte Mühl ).

Sigrid Heuck received a. a. The following awards: 1984 the Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize for moon hunters , 1988 the Fantastic Prize of the City of Wetzlar for Said's story , 1990 the Austrian Youth Book Prize for Master Joachim's Secret and the Grand Prize of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature for their complete works, 1994 the Bavarian Order of Merit and in 2002 the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class. Her books were also on the shortlist for the German Youth Literature Prize six times .

Heuck died on October 2, 2014 in Bad Tölz, Upper Bavaria, at the age of 82.

The artistic estate of the writer and illustrator Sigrid Heuck was handed over to the children's and youth book department of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage for permanent storage.

Works

  • The moon cow paradise , Freiburg i.Br. [u. a.] 1959
  • The story of the very special animal , Munich 1961 (together with Rudolf Neumann)
  • Pony , Freiburg i.Br. [u. a.] 1961 (together with Gina Ruck-Pauquèt )
  • My house , Munich [u. a.] 1963 (together with Josef Guggenmos )
  • The Vogelbaum or The Story of the Adventures of a Little Girl in the Forest , Munich 1963
  • Die Henne Gudula , Munich 1965 (together with Lene Hille-Brandts)
  • Murmel , Freising 1966 (together with Gina Ruck-Pauquèt )
  • Gudulas Heimkehr , Munich 1967 (together with Lene Hille-Brandts)
  • Buffalo Man and Eagle King , Munich 1968
  • Cowboy Jim , Gütersloh 1968
  • My bird feeder , Munich 1969 (together with Grete Lübbe-Grothues)
  • The magic compass , Freising 1969
  • Cowboy Jim from Silvertown , Gütersloh 1970 (with Herbert Lentz)
  • Cowboy Jims Wildwest-ABC , Gütersloh 1970
  • I know many colors , Gütersloh 1970 (together with Gina Ruck-Pauquèt )
  • The little donkey , Lahr / Black Forest 1970
  • Schnipsel im Wind , Munich 1970
  • The dwarf , Lahr / Black Forest 1970
  • Emilio Feuerohr , Gütersloh 1971 (together with Franz J. Tripp )
  • Sokrates der Spatz , Munich 1971 (together with Kurt Hock)
  • Zacharias Walfischzahn , Gütersloh [u. a.] 1971
  • I'm going out , Ravensburg 1972
  • Malpeter , Freising 1972
  • Red Ball and Cat Dragon , Munich 1972
  • Spanlong Hansel, noodle-thick girl , Lahr 1973
  • Wolkenkind , Lahr 1973
  • I'm a cowboy and my name is Jim , Gütersloh [u. a.] 1975
  • The little cowboy and the Indians , Balve / Sauerland 1976
  • The little cowboy and Mister Peng-Peng , Balve / Sauerland 1977
  • Petah Eulengesicht , Munich 1977
  • Pony, bear and apple tree , Stuttgart 1977
  • A pony summer , Menden / Sauerland 1977
  • The little cowboy and the wild stallion , Balve / Sauerland 1978
  • The trip to Tandilan , Weinheim [u. a.] 1979
  • Tommi and the horses , Freising 1979
  • Wind for Dolly McMolly , Munich 1979
  • Felix , Ravensburg 1980
  • The rain tree bird , Stuttgart 1980
  • Long John Tabakstinker , Munich 1981
  • Where are the ponies, Tinka? , Menden / Sauerland 1981
  • Reading lion pony stories , Bayreuth 1982
  • Hans Hampelmann dreams of Vienna [a. a.] 1983
  • Moon hunters , Stuttgart 1983
  • Teddy bear & rocking horse and other stories , Munich 1983
  • The little cloud that once wanted to run , Ravensburg 1984 (together with Christa Baisch)
  • Reading lion advent calendar , Bayreuth 1984
  • Western-Lizzy , Munich 1984
  • Pony, Bear and Evening Star , Stuttgart 1985
  • For example Colleen , Stuttgart 1985
  • Maisfrieden , Stuttgart [a. a.] 1986
  • Tinka on the pony farm , Ravensburg 1986
  • It was the puppet fairy who danced a waltz , Vienna [u. a.] 1987
  • Said's story or the treasure in the desert , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1987
  • The enchanted island , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1987
  • The bear bet or the shortest route is not always the fastest , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1988
  • Reading lion donkey stories , Bindlach 1988
  • Pony, bear and snowstorm , Stuttgart 1988
  • Jim in the Wild West , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1989
  • Master Joachim's Secret , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1989
  • The Cloud Journey , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1989 (together with Sis Koch)
  • Stories from Noah's logbook , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1990
  • Knubbel vom Fluß , Bindlach 1990
  • The pony-and-bear puzzle picture book , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1990
  • The old mill , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1991
  • Die Windwette , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1991
  • Owl Ghost and Spooky Mouse , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1992
  • The clever Rico , Munich 1992
  • The Harlequin's Garden , Munich 1993
  • They followed a bright star , Ravensburg 1993 (together with Ulises Wensell)
  • Run, Rasputin, run! , Bindlach 1994
  • Tüs adventurous journey , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1994
  • The wind bell temple , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1994
  • Jonas and the dog from the moon , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1995 (together with Rudolf Gerer)
  • Reading lion cowboy stories , Bindlach 1995
  • Die Perlenschnur , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1995
  • Ponies, mustangs and other horses , Munich 1995 (together with Milada Krautmann)
  • Das Katzenfest , Munich 1996 (together with Oda Johanna Fässler)
  • The horse from the mountains , Munich 1996
  • Windmähne , Bindlach 1996
  • I wish a dog , Munich 1997 (together with Milada Krautmann)
  • The Princess of the Glass Tower , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1997
  • Aminas Lied , Stuttgart [a. a.] 1998
  • Where are you going to Dublin? , Hamburg 1998
  • The dream pony , Bindlach 1998 (together with Regine Altegoer)
  • Merry Christmas, dear Christ Child! , Würzburg 1999
  • The enchanted Easter eggs , Würzburg 1999
  • The City Princess , Munich 2000
  • The island seeker , Stuttgart 2000
  • The knight and the ghost woman , Stuttgart [u. a.] 2000
  • The foreigner , Stuttgart [u. a.] 2001
  • The elephant boy , Stuttgart [u. a.] 2002
  • Knubbel discovers the world , Würzburg 2002
  • Somewhere, nowhere , Stuttgart [u. a.] 2004
  • The mysterious picture in the tree , Stuttgart [u. a.] 2005
  • A horse summer , Bindlach 2005
  • The emperor's elephant , Stuttgart [u. a.] 2006
  • Well done Jim! , Münster 2006 (together with Katharina Drees)
  • E-Mails from Africa , Stuttgart [a. a.] 2007
  • The little rabbit and the Easter magic , Würzburg 2007
  • Summer at the pony farm , Munich 2008
  • The secret of the wind , Munich 2009
  • The Snail King , Munich 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grave site Rampertshofen cemetery ; October 3rd was incorrectly stated in several media outlets
  2. ^ Children's book author Sigrid Heuck has died. In: Der Tagesspiegel from October 6, 2014 (accessed October 6, 2014)
  3. ↑ Sigrid Heuck. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter, 2014, p. 423, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  4. ^ German Youth Literature Prize. Retrieved April 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, communication from April 12, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Heuck, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 2014
Place of death Bad Tölz