Todd Strasser

Strasser at a reading at the Langenau grammar school on March 9, 2006

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Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950 in New York City ) is an American writer . His stage name Morton Rhue is a play on words from the French words Mort (death -> Todd) and Rue (street -> Strasser) .

biography

He spent his youth on Long Island . After his school days, Morton Rhue first studied at a college in New York, which he soon left. A little later he lived in Europe , where he earned his living as a street musician . When he returned to the United States, he began studying literature at Beloit College in the US state of Wisconsin , where he graduated in 1974. He then worked for several years as a newspaper reporter for the Middleton Times Herald Record and as a copywriter for Compton Advertising .

At that time he was already writing short stories that were published in The New York Times , The New Yorker and Esquire . In 1978 his first novel entitled Angel Dust Blues was published.

In the USA he made a name for himself through numerous other publications as well as several novels for young people. In the German-speaking world, he was best known for the book Die Welle , which is part of the reading canon in many schools. In his books, Rhue takes up complex topics such as National Socialism , violence in schools or homelessness and works on them for young people.

Morton Rhue lived in New York City for 15 years with his wife and two children and has lived in Larchmont , New York for 25 years .

Awards

• 1988: Bookworms Award
• 1995: New York State Library Association Award for Outstanding Children's Literature
• 1996: Children's Choice Award from the International Reading Association
• 2005: Selection list of the German Youth Literature Prize
• 2005: Silver Lufti in the 8th prize round
• 2008: Donkey of the month
• 2008: Reading Peter Book Prize

Works

• Angel dust blues. A novel , Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York 1979, ISBN 0-698-20485-9 .
• The Wave . Delacorte Press, New York City, New York, 1981.
  • The wave . Report on a teaching attempt that went too far , Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2005, ISBN 3-473-58008-2 .
• The new sound , Würzburg 1988, ISBN 3-401-08000-8 .
• Girls give birth to own prom date , New York 1996, ISBN 0-689-80482-2 .
• I'll shoot you! ( Give a Boy a Gun ), Maier, Ravensburger 2002, ISBN 3-473-58172-0 .
• Asphalt tribe . Children of the street (Can't Get There From Here) , Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2005, ISBN 3-473-58212-3 .
• Boot Camp ( Boot Camp ), Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2006, ISBN 3-473-58255-7 .
• Ghetto Kidz , Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-473-35292-0 .
• Is that a dead dog in your locker . Scholastic Corporation, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-439-77694-3
• Too dark to see . Nighttime, 2009, ISBN 978-0-545-12476-8
• Fame Junkies , Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-473-35319-4 .
• Blood on My hands , Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-551-35907-0
• How I changed my life . Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-4424-5141-4
• About us Stille , Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-473-40081-2 .
• No place, no home , translated by Katarina Ganslandt. Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-473-40100-0 .
• Jihad Online , translated by Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner . Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-473-40118-5 .
• Creature. Danger from the Deep (The Beast of Cretacea) , Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-473-40150-5
• American Hero , translated by Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner, Carlsen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-551-31685-1

Web links

Commons : Morton Rhue  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Todd Strasser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Todd Strasser in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Todd Strasser official website
• Interview with Morton Rhue
• Information about Morton Rhue at KinderundJugendmedien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SZ No. 228, 1./2./3. October 2016, p. 51.
2. ^ About life in the tent city in FAZ of April 22, 2014, p. 12.