Herbert Kaufmann

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Herbert Kaufmann (24 August 1920 – 27 November 1976) was a German Ethnologist, journalist, photographer and writer. He is known for his body of work concerning Africa, particularly – in the English-speaking world – his translated novel, Red Moon and High Summer (translated 2006), an adventure story set among the Tuaregs.^[1] The original German edition, Roter Mond und Heiße Zeit (1957), won the 1958 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.^[2]

Work[]

• Afrika, 1954
• Der verlorene Karawanenweg (also published as Die Hammelpiste), Graz u. a. 1955 (novel)
• Kongo zwischen gestern und morgen, Murnau 1956
• Der Teufel tanzt im Ju-Ju-Busch, Graz u. a. 1956 (novel)
• Roter Mond und Heiße Zeit, Graz u. a. 1957 (novel)
• Die Stadt unter dem Wüstensand, Graz u. a. 1957 (novel)
• Nigeria, Bonn 1958
• Reiten durch Iforas, München 1958 (illustrated travelogue)
• Sulei, der kleine Negerjunge, Köln u. a. 1958 (together with Gerty Kaufmann)
• Belgisch Kongo und Ruanda-Urundi, Bonn 1959
• Des Königs Krokodil, Köln u. a. 1959 (novel)
• Pfeile und Flöten, Graz u. a. 1960 (novel)
• La piste perdue. Paris 1960 (French translation of Der verlorene Karawanenweg)
• Äthiopien, Bonn 1962
• Dein neuer Nachbar in Afrika, Düsseldorf 1962
• Afrikas Weg in die Gegenwart, Braunschweig 1963
• Wirtschafts- und Sozialstruktur der Iforas-Tuareg, Köln 1964 (Doctorate)
• Tule Tiptops merkwürdige Reise, Graz u. a. 1977
• Red Moon and High Summer. London 2006 ISBN 0-907871-34-8 (English translation of Roter Mond und Heiße Zeit).

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