Uwe Wandrey

Uwe Wandrey (pseudonym: Peer Brax ; born May 10, 1939 in Hamburg ) is a German writer .

Life

Uwe Wandrey is the son of a dock worker . From 1955 to 1958 he completed an apprenticeship as a shipbuilder ; then he worked as a designer until 1960 . At the same time he attended an evening high school , where he graduated from high school in 1960 . From 1960 to 1962 he did his military service , which he finished as a lieutenant in the reserve . He then studied German , history and philosophy at the University of Hamburg . In 1971 he received his doctorate in philosophy . In the 1960s, Wandrey was involved in the “ Hamburg Linksliterarisch ” group and the extra-parliamentary opposition against the emergency laws and the Vietnam War . Between 1969 and 1971 he occasionally appeared as a political singer-songwriter .

After he had founded his own small publishing house with the “ Quer-Verlag ” in 1966 , he worked for the Rowohlt Verlag from 1971 : From April 1972 to 1981 he published the children's paperback series rororo rotfuchs there , and from 1979 to 1981 also the Youth series "rororo-Panther". From 1997 to 1999 he worked for Mare magazine . Since 1988 he has written radio features and magazine articles a. a. for Deutschlandfunk, WDR and NDR. He also published reports in Konkret , Zeitmagazin , Merian , Neue Zürcher Zeitung and others. a. In his own narrative works he also dealt with topics from the world of work and his time in the army. Since 2000 he has been developing experiment kits for the Kosmos Verlag on the subjects of physics, climate change and renewable energies.

Uwe Wandrey, who is a member of the Association of German Writers , now lives temporarily in Hamburg and mainly on the Greek Cycladic island of Paros .

Works

• Stimulus rhymes , Hamburg 1966
• Kampfreime , Hamburg 1968
• Klein-Erna on course to the left , Hamburg 1970
• The motif of war in expressionist poetry , Hamburg 1972
• Hidden and yet discovered! , Reinbek near Hamburg 1972 (together with Wilhelm M. Busch )
• Apprenticeship stories , Munich [u. a.] 1973
• Everything lied! , Reinbek near Hamburg 1975
• The robber Ratzeputz , Reinbek near Hamburg 1977 (together with Hansjörg Langenfass )
• The silence is always striking , Königstein / Ts. 1979
• The magic baker Balthasar , Hamburg 1981 (together with Jutta Bauer )
• A gummy bear has a hard time, everyone knows that, Hamburg 1989 (together with Barbara Gutjahr)
• Diary of a defector , Hamburg 1990
• Traumvogel flieg , Hamburg 1991 (together with Elisabeth Reuter)
• Gummibärs Glück , Hamburg 1992
• Love escapes , Hamburg 1992
• Sun power plant , Reinbek near Hamburg 2003

Editing

• Peter-Ernst Eiffe : Eiffe for president, Spring for Europe , Hamburg 1968
• Silent night everyone! , Reinbek near Hamburg 1972
• Here comes a man with big feet , Reinbek near Hamburg 1973 (together with Renate Boldt)
• Quatsch , Reinbek near Hamburg 1974 (together with Renate Boldt)
• Girls book also for boys , Reinbek near Hamburg 1976
• Roswitha Fröhlich : I just couldn't say anything, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979
• Not a beautiful country? , Reinbek near Hamburg 1979
• Brigitte Rohkohl: Rock women , Reinbek near Hamburg 1979
• Harald Tondern: Colombian Connection , Reinbek near Hamburg 1979
• The dream cabinet , Reinbek near Hamburg 1980
• Christmas Eve together! , Reinbek near Hamburg 1982
• Future music , Reinbek near Hamburg 1986
• Hundred Years of Love , Reinbek near Hamburg 1987 (together with Ute Eltner)
• Almost forty , Reinbek near Hamburg 1991
• Never again twenty-nine , Reinbek near Hamburg 1991
• Round fifty , Reinbek near Hamburg 1991

Web links

• Literature by and about Uwe Wandrey in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corinna Norrick-Rühl: Panther, Rotfuchs & Co. rororo paperbacks for young target groups in the social upheaval of the 1970s and 1980s. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10169-1 , pp. 76-77 .