Helme Heine

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Helme Heine (b. 4 April 1941) in Berlin is a German writer, children's book author, illustrator and designer. He is the brother of Ernst Wilhelm Heine. He has lived in New Zealand since 1990, occasionally writing film scripts, audio book scripts and working on satirical drawings and sculpture.

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[edit] Biography

The young Helme Heine studied history of art, along with marketing and management. Afterwards, although unplanned, he took over the parental hotel in the proximity of Düsseldorf, then at the beginning of the 1960s he travelled to Europe and Asia. He remained in Johannesburg, South Africa for a few years. Among other things he starred in Cabaret there, brought a satirical magazine out and took over the management of a theatre chain.

He began to paint at the beginning of the seventies; 1975 saw him develop his first children's book, the Elefanteneinmaleins (Elephant multiplication table). He experienced his breakthrough in the same year with the Frankfurt Book Fair, where he got to know the publisher, Gertraud Middelhauve.

As an author and illustrator, Heine ranks today among the artists most renowned internationally; he has had work translated into 35 languages and received numerous honours worldwide. Among his most popular works ranks the little Dragon, Tabaluga.

Helme Heine also writes for adults, draws cartoons and animations and designs sculptures and furniture.

His summer home is in Bavaria.

In Böblingen from February 2005, a two-month special exhibition with 136 examples of Helme Heine's work ran, featuring watercolor art, drawings in India ink and pencil sketches, right up to sculptures and a designer game of chess.

[edit] Awards and prizes

  • 1983 Oldenburg Child & Youth Book Prize - Illustrations for Gudrun Mäcker Anna and the Tatzelwurm
  • 1991 Grand Prize of the German Child & Youth Literature Academy, e.V.
  • European Children's Book Prize

[edit] Children's books

  • Samstag im Paradies (Saturday in Paradise)
  • Elefanteneinmaleins ISBN 3-407-77068-5 (Elephant Multiplication Tables)
  • Prinz Bär (Prince Bear)
  • Freunde (Friends) ISBN-13: 978-0689710834
  • König Hupf der I. (King Hop the First)
  • Das schönste Ei der Welt ISBN 3-407-77061-8 (Most beautiful egg in the world)
  • Na warte, sagte Schwarte (Just wait, said Schwarte)
  • Mullewapp (Mollywoop) ISBN-13: 978-0374350017
  • Tabaluga
  • Der Hase mit der roten Nase ISBN 3-407-77006-5 (The hare with the red nose)
  • Der Club ISBN 3-407-77023-5 (The club)
  • Foxtrott ISBN 3-446-20306-0 (Foxtrot)
  • "Friends Go Adventuring" ISBN-13: 978-0689818509

[edit] See also

[edit] Works about Helme Heine

  • Karola Kimmerle: Die Freunde von Helme Heine. München: Ridinghaus (ca. 2001). ISBN 3-7421-3500-7 (The Friends of Helme Heine)
  • Maren Saam: Literatur-Werkstatt zum Kinderbuch von Helme Heine "Freunde". Mülheim an der Ruhr: Verl. an der Ruhr 2004. ISBN 3-86072-907-1 (Literature - Children's Books of Helme Heine)

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