{{Multiple issues| {{notability|1=Biographies|date=December 2016}}{{more citations needed|date=December 2016}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Herbert_Kaufmann|date=September 2016}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox academic | occupation = | death_date = 27 November 1976 | birth_date = 24 August 1920 }} '''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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Red Moon & High Summer|url=http://www.travelbooks.co.uk/shop-online-books/red-moon-high-summer|website=Eland Books}}</ref> The original German edition, ''Roter Mond und Heiße Zeit'' (1957), won the 1958 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.<ref>{{cite web|title=Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis (1956–1980)|url=https://www.nuernberg.de/imperia/md/stadtbibliothek/dokumente/jugendlitpreis_chrono.pdf|website=nuernberg.de|accessdate=15 September 2016}}</ref>
==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) *L''a 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'').
==References== {{reflist}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaufmann, Herbert}} Category:1920 births Category:1976 deaths Category:20th-century German male writers
{{Germany-writer-stub}}