Ursula Ullrich

This article is about the writer Ursula Ullrich. For the actress with a similar name, see Ursula Ulrich .

Ursula Ullrich (born April 8, 1932 in Dresden ) is a German writer .

Life

Ursula Ullrich was born in Dresden in 1932. Her first marriage was to the zoologist Wolfgang Ullrich , with whom she traveled to Africa and Asia . Together they published in 1962 In the jungle of the Indian rhinoceros and in 1965 Hati-Hati. On the back of an elephant through the Indian wilderness .

Ullrich wrote her first children's book as early as 1958, but also wrote travel reports, short stories, feature articles and worked for the press and television. She has been working exclusively as a writer since 1968 and has devoted herself mainly to children's books since 1980.

Ursula Ullrich lives and works with the painter Gottfried Sommer on the island of Rügen .

Works (selection)

Illustrated books

• Rügen island trails. 2nd Edition. Edition Freund, Dresden 2004, ISBN 3-936477-32-9 .
• November on Hiddensee. Trains of thought. Edition Freund, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-936477-31-0 .

prose

• Escalator acquaintances. Features stories and many other things. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1981.
• In the evening the shadows are long. Stories. 2nd Edition. Union Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-372-00091-9 .

Non-fiction

• And then animals became our companions. Radebeul 1953 (with Wolfgang Ullrich).
• White woman in the crown of thorns. 3. Edition. Neumann-Verlag, Radebeul 1959.
• Lions were our neighbors. Over the Alps to Nairobi. Neumann-Verlag, Radebeul 1973.
• In the jungle of the Indian rhinos. 3. Edition. Neumann-Verlag, Radebeul 1973 (with Wolfgang Ullrich).
• Hati-Hati. On the back of an elephant through the Indian wilderness. 5th edition. Neumann-Verlag, Radebeul 1982 (with Wolfgang Ullrich).
• Wilderness without hope? 2nd Edition. Neumann-Verlag, Radebeul 1970 (with Wolfgang Ullrich).

Books for children and young readers

• The monkey wedding. 2nd Edition. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1977.
• Kili, the proboscis monkey. A jungle fairy tale Verlag Junge Welt, Berlin 1991.
• Hiddensee sightseeing tour. Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1991.
• Spreewald and meadow trip. In seven letters and with a prelude. Junge Welt, Berlin 1985 (Querlandein; 7).
• Kanga. A day in the life of a chimpanzee. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin 1988.
• Hamissi, the tracker. Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7302-0194-8 .
• Dream horse riding or the fairytale story of Julchen, who didn't want to be stupid Juliet. Verlag Junge Welt, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7302-0500-5 .
• Flip and the Wonder Scale. A fairy tale about the coral reef. Verlag Junge Welt, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-7302-0766-0 .
• Stories from Florinchen. Verlag Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-312-00769-0 .
• Florinchen manages it with his left hand. Verlag Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-312-00784-4 .

literature

• Heidi Strobel: About the love of a state for its children. Childhood images in children's literature in the GDR. In: Gudrun Stenzel (Ed.): Children read, children live. Childhoods in Children's Literature . Juventa Verlag, Weinheim 2005, ISBN 3-7799-0993-6 , p. 99f.