Susanne Brandt

Susanne Brandt (born February 6, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a librarian , rhythm teacher (BWR), author, blogger and editor.

Career

Susanne Brandt studied librarianship and cultural studies in Hamburg , Stuttgart and at the Hagen Open University . This was followed by further training in rhythmic-musical education, poetry and bibliotherapy, integration and language promotion as well as intercultural music practice. From 1987 to the end of 1999 she was director of the Cuxhaven Music Library . From the beginning of 2000 to 2011 Brandt worked as a library manager in Westoverledingen and as a freelancer in the project “Reading aloud in families” at the Center for Literature at the Fantastic Library in Wetzlar.

Brandt has been the publisher, composer and author of specialist publications as well as poems, stories, essays, songs, adaptations and pieces of music for children and adults since the early 1990s. Some books and articles have also been published in Czech, Slovak, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, Danish, Polish and Low German translations. Since 2015 she has been volunteering as an integration pilot and has been part of the editorial team at “Refugee Magazine” Hamburg since 2017. Brandt is a member of the lyricists and composers group TAKT as well as a member of the European authors' association " Die Kogge ".

Since summer 2011 she has been working full-time as a lecturer at the Schleswig-Holstein library in Flensburg , where she also lives. In addition, she works as a lecturer and lecturer at various institutes and universities.

Awards

She received awards and nominations in the field of poetry, song lyrics and short stories at

• Bad Zwischenahn Art Prize 2006 and 2008
• Paul Gerhardt Song Competition 2007
• Writing competition of the city of Schwerin 2009
• Song competition for the Luther Decade in the theme year Religion and Music 2012
• Song competition New Spiritual Song - Easter and Pentecost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover 2012
• Schleswig-Holstein writing competition Butter bei die Fisch. So wrote the north in 2014
• international poetry competition Baden near Vienna 2014 (3rd place) for the poem Da ist noch Land
• Mountain stories competition 2014/2015 in Lana / Italy
• Song competition "Your Reformation Song" by ekd / dekt 2015
• Competition "Thomaslied" of the ev.-ref. Church district of Liebefeld / Switzerland 2015
• 2016 story competition organized by “Aktion Deutschland hilft” as the winner in the “Poem” category for the text We practice future tense
• Writing competition of the "Literature Days in the Upper Palatinate Jura 2016" on the subject of "Home and Refuge" with the poem Many stories begin at rivers. (Recognition award)
• Sola scriptura 2017 in Wittenberg, 2nd prize for the poem Was ich nicht kann
• Hildesheim Literature Competition 2017 (main prize winner)

Publications (selection)

For adults

• with Armin Krenz and Reinhard Horn: Märchen-Lieder-Zeit, Lippstadt 2019 ISBN 978-3-89617-318-8

• with Klaus-Uwe Nommensen: Growing with trust. Don Bosco, Munich 2019 ISBN 978-3-7698-2416-2

• My narrative theater Kamishibai. Discover religion with pictures and stories . Don Bosco, Munich 2017 ISBN 978-3-7698-2246-5 .
• The sky remains wide. Songs and devotions. Publishing house Singende Gemeinde, Wuppertal 2016, ISBN 978-3-87753-161-7 .
• My narrative theater Kamishibai. Storytelling with music and sound for children aged 3-8 . Don Bosco, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7698-2230-4 .
• My Narrative Theater Kamishibai Learn German with songs and stories . Don Bosco, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7698-2263-2 .
• with Kerstin Keller-Loibl: Reading promotion in public libraries . De Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033688-7 .
• with Helga Gruschka: My Kamishibai The practical book on narrative theater . Don Bosco, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7698-1957-1
• Bible stories to replay and participate . Don Bosco, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-7698-1926-7
• Klaus Seckel's diary. Beginning and end of a childhood at the Quaker School in Eerde . Simon, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940862-14-3 .
• Thought flights without illusion. Janusz Korczak as a source of inspiration for dialogic encounters with children . (= Series of publications by the Center for Literature in the Fantastic Library Wetzlar, vol. 10). Published by Thomas Le Blanc, Wetzlar 2010.
• Tell and discover. Lively language experiences with natural stories . Simon, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940862-18-1 .
• Listen and read. Listening experiences in language and reading promotion in children's libraries . Simon, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940862-06-8 .
• with others: public library and school. Examples of cooperation . Ed .: Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture, Hanover 2009.
• Children experience Abraham . Don Bosco, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7698-1643-3 .
• Mondays in Advent . CONTACTS Musikverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89617-206-8 .
• New favorite songs based on familiar melodies . Don Bosco, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7698-1609-9 .
• Stories and poems to promote language skills . Don Bosco, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7698-1516-0 .
• Experience picture books in kindergarten . Persen, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8344-4260-4 .
• I am a free Frisian daughter . Hebus-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-935083-21-8 .
• Course book nutrition education . Don Bosco, 2002, ISBN 978-3-7698-1374-6 .
• Children experience Jesus Claudius , 2002, ISBN 978-3-532-62279-7 .
• Be welcome, dear dove . Verlag Werkstatt Kreuz und Quer, 2000, ISBN 978-3-9805547-8-7 .
• The spring playground . Don Bosco, 2000, ISBN 978-3-7698-1200-8 .
• The Christmas stage . Don Bosco, 1999, ISBN 978-3-7698-1160-5 .
• Children experience poetry . Don Bosco, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7698-1080-6 .
• Seven small rhinestones . Don Bosco, 1996, ISBN 978-3-7698-0894-0 .

For children

• Postman Willi, pirate and the mysterious Christmas letter. Kamishibai advent calendar, ill. v. Anne Marie Braune, Munich 2019, EAN 426017951 596 5

• When Santa Claus came with the sleigh . Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7698-2387-5 .
• The three butterflies. Mini picture book . Munich, 2016. ISBN 978-3-7698-2222-9 .
• My mini picture book: Martin Luther . Ill. By Gertraud Funke, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7698-2264-9 .
• Francis and the first nativity scene. Mini picture book , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7698-2193-2 .
• Three Chinese with the double bass. Mini picture book , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7698-2157-4 .
• Message in a bottle from Puk. A beach fairy tale . Flensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-938500-13-2 .
• Come ye Ye Children. Mini picture book . Munich, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7698-2119-2 .
• Silent Night Holy Night. Mini picture book . Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7698-2123-9 .
• The story of Martin Luther. Mini picture book . Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7698-2008-9 .
• Benno Bear. Mini picture book . Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7698-2040-9 .
• Children's Bible Stories . Don Bosco, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7698-1870-3 .
• Elephant songs for little mice . CONTACTS Musikverlag, 2010 ISBN 978-3-89617-239-6 .
• What is the light doing all day? Kreuz & Quer , Papenburg, 2010 ISBN 978-3-938500-08-8 .
• How good that Mia likes seagulls. Ornithology in pictures, letters and poems . Papenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-938500-07-1 .
• What happened in the dwarf forest . Verlag Werkstatt Kreuz und Quer, 2006, ISBN 978-3-938500-04-0 .
• Do you hear the mussels whispering? Verlag Werkstatt Kreuz und Quer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-9805547-2-5 .
• The air swing . Verlag Werkstatt Kreuz und Quer, 2003, ISBN 978-3-9805547-5-6 .
• From house to house through Bethlehem . Bernward at Don Bosco, 2001, ISBN 978-3-7698-1316-6 .

Web links

• Works by and about Susanne Brandt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Susanne Brandt's blog
• Interview with Susanne Brandt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Marti: "Thomaslied". In: Current of the Thomaskirche Liebefeld. Retrieved August 7, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Aktion Deutschland Hilft - Alliance of German Aid Organizations: Story Competition: Winner ... Aktion Deutschland Hilft. (No longer available online.) In: www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de. Archived from the original on July 25, 2016 ; Retrieved July 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Kirchenkreis Wittenberg: Messages - The winning texts for sola scriptura 2017 are fixed . In: Messages - The winning texts for sola scriptura 2017 have been determined . 2017 ( kirchenkreis-wittenberg.de [accessed February 4, 2017]).