Heike Brandt

thumb|Heike Brandt '''Heike Brandt''' (born 1947) is a German writer and translator of books for children, who has translated over 70 books from English to German.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mwf.com.au/2007/content/standard.asp?name=BrandtH |title=Melbourne Writers Festival - Heike Brandt |access-date=2012-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822070424/http://www.mwf.com.au/2007/content/standard.asp?name=BrandtH |archive-date=2011-08-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Life== Heike Brandt was born in Jever and grew up in Berlin. She lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.beltz.de/de/kinder-jugendbuch/unsere-autoren/autor/heike-brandt.html |title=Heike Brandt |access-date=2012-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910124514/http://www.beltz.de/de/kinder-jugendbuch/unsere-autoren/autor/heike-brandt.html |archive-date=2011-09-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Aside from translation, her first book was a biography of the feminist and writer Hedwig Dohm. After Brandt had translated several children's books by Elizabeth Honey, the pair directly collaborated to write ''To the boy in Berlin'' (2007).

==Works==

===Translations=== * ''Lasst den Kreis geschlossen: Roman'' by Mildred D. Taylor. Translated from the American ''Let the Circle Be Unbroken''. Weinheim: Beltz & Gelberg, 1987. * (tr.) ''Andis Krieg'' by Billi Rosen. 1990. * (tr.) ''Überlebt: als Kind in deutschen Konzentrationslagen'' [Survived: As a child in a German concentration camp] by Agnes Sassoon. Translated from the English ''Agnes: how my spirit survived''. 1992. * (tr.) ''Liebe Tracey, liebe Mandy'' [Dear Tracey, love Mandy] by John Marsden. 1996. * (tr.) ''Salamander im Netz'' by Elizabeth Honey. 2003. * (tr.) ''Monsterwochen'' [Monster weeks] by Ron Koertge. Translated from the English ''Stoner and Spaz''. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2004.

===Other=== * ''Die Menschenrechte haben kein Geschlecht: die Lebensgeschichte der Hedwig Dohm'' [Human rights have no sex: the life story of Hedwig Dohm], Weinheim: Beltz & Gelberg, 1989. * ''Katzensprünge: Roman'' [Cat leaps: a novel], 1995 * ''Wie ein Vogel im Käfig: Roman'' [Like a bird in a cage: a novel]. Weinheim: Beltz & Gelberg, 2003 * (with Elizabeth Honey) ''To the boy in Berlin'', Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin, 2007

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