Uwe Kreisel
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Uwe Kreisel (ˈuːvə ˈkraɪsəl; born 1961 in Mannheim, Germany) is a writer and textbook author in the fields of linguistics
Linguistics
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, ESL
ESL
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, and cross-cultural topics. He is also an expert in instructional design (courseware, textbooks, e-learning) and curriculum planning.
He is a member of the German artists’ guilds VG Wort and VG Bild und Kunst and has held fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service
German Academic Exchange Service
The German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation....
(DAAD) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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. His work today centers on textbook development, the visual communication of knowledge objects, and the trials and tribulations of travelling.
Kreisel's travel books focus on cross-cultural interferences and aim at providing practical solutions for the many pitfalls of traveling abroad. His books, all published in Germany, have been in reviewed by major newspapers, such as 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung' and 'Die Zeit'.
As a cartoonist, Uwe Kreisel illustrated several of his own books. In 2006, he was a winner of Nintendo of America's "Pokémon
Pokémon
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Mystery Dungeon" art contest with a tongue-in-cheek cartoon on Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world...
.
Mr. Kreisel currently resides in Jemgum
Jemgum
Jemgum is a municipality in the Leer district, in the northwest of Lower Saxony, Germany. The area is known as Rheiderland or Reiderland . The Rheiderland is located in East Friesland....
, East Frisia, in the Upper Northwest of Germany, and keeps an apartment in Stockholm, Sweden. He also travels around the world, researching new books.