Ulrich Karger (* February 3 1957 in Berchtesgaden Bavaria Germany) is an author and teacher of religion at a school for speech disabled children. He lives in Berlin, Germany.

His complete prose retelling of Homers Odyssey was taken into account in the complete German linguistic area. The Lucerne commission of school- and municipality libraries deemed this work worthy as a "masterly performance" and Hans-Ludwig Oertel writes in FORUM CLASSICUM (volume 1/2003): "The kind of retelling by the teacher Ulrich Karger is nearest at the Homeric text" and at least the work community literature for young people and media in the trade union GEW Bavaria "wishes this thorough work a life time just as long as the version by Gustav Schwab". This work also forms the basis of the "piece of read-music" Odyssey 1-5-9 that Ulrich Karger developed together with the Berlin jazz-composer Gernot Reetz.

Beside other several languages is his picture book for children Geisterstunde im Kindergarten (= The Scary Sleepover) being published in English. In addition, for years he has been writing also many book reviews for various daily papers and programme magazines. He is a member of VS Berlin (writers' association within the German trade union ver.di).

Bibliography

• "Homer / Die Odyssee" (retelling) paperback new edition 2004, ISBN 3-12-262460-5

more works at the author's homepage

English translations

• "The Scary Sleepover" (children's picture book) 2002, ISBN 0-7358-1712-X

External links

• Homepage with bibliography, parts of his texts and book reviews
• Buechernachlese German Book Reviews by Ulrich Karger – an archive with over 950 reviews of fiction, non fiction & children's books