Stefan Baiker
Stefan Mike Baiker (born December 26, 1966 in Zurich ) is a Swiss author.
Life
Stefan Baiker grew up in Kloten . After graduating from high school , he studied mechanical engineering at the HSR in Rapperswil . Shortly after graduating, he worked for three years in Taiwan as a project engineer for a Swiss company. The author lives in Wetzikon , is married to a Taiwanese woman and has two children.
Since 2002 he has published the trade journal Metal Finishing. He has been writing the children's book series Der Geisterkickboarder since 2015 . In addition to the books, there are also CDs and puzzle books of the same name. The heroes in the children's book series are a ten-year-old boy with a black eye mask and a kickboard and a mysterious eleven-year-old girl on inline skates . They protect the weak and fight the wicked in their city. With the new children's book series “Der Geisterkickboarder”, of which 100 books are sold per week in May 2018, Baiker has suggested building his own skate park , the GKB Skatepark in Wetzikon, where his books and CDs are also sold. The author regularly gives readings in German-speaking Switzerland
In 2018 he founded Geisterkickboarder GmbH together with Li-Chun Baiker.
His ghost kickboarding stories have been published monthly in the free children's magazine MAKY and in French in RATAPLAN since September 2019 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Baiker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Stefan Baiker in the catalog of the Swiss National Bibliography
- Book presentation Geisterkickboarder, Two children on the hunt for criminals (FamilienSpick 26/2018, p. 75/76; PDF file; 1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Geisterkickboarder GmbH , moneyhouse.ch, March 23, 2020
- ↑ a b Angela Lembo: Children are heroes: In his books, a boy fights against evil as a ghost kickboarder. The author of this adventure is engineer Stefan Baiker from the Zurich Oberland. His son Sven inspired the stories. ( Swiss family May 2018, p. 53/54, PDF file; 1MB)
- ↑ S. Baiker
- ↑ GKB skate park
- ↑ Gemeindebibliothek miles , City Library Uster , library Ruti , book tour in the canton of Aargau , library Visp, Canton Valais
- ↑ Der Geisterkickboarder , Facebook page of GKB Skatepark Wetzikon, August 29, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baiker, Stefan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baiker, Stefan Mike (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mechanical engineer, author and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |