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The Bruynzeel House
is a landmark in Stellenbosch

18 Constantia Avenue
Stellenbosch 7600
South Africa
021 887 6939, but I prefer e-mail:

Letter Animations for my children's book
Authors' dogs and cats
Photos: Stellenbosch University Campus
Bird galleries and other galleries

7 March 2005: The first copies of the Stellenbosch Writers arrived from the printers!
More information

In preparation:

The Fynbos art of Dorothy Dodds (1898 - 1976)
- superb watercolours from her rediscovered sketchbooks.

Book cover deutsch-english20 October 2010:
Publisher   Publisher
I started my own publishing business with a special edition of Zettelwitz
The Zettelwitz books are available as bi-lingual books, Kindle and pdf e-books.
More information  Photo of the launch
Reviews by Francois Verster and b. k. green
It has been printed by the exellent Digi4 Print team

Also available at kalahari.com

Rosie Breuer   

Rosemarie Breuer

Publisher of Nature books for children and special editions in small print runs
Book Illustrator and Web Designer
Author of Stellenbosch Writers and children's books

Do you want to know how wonderful our world really is: Read more Natural Science books!
Born on 2.12.1943 near Berlin, Rosemarie (Rosie), née Berg, grew up in the Taunus Mountains near Wiesbaden, in Fischbach.
She studied Romance Languages - Latin, French and Spanish - in Paris, Munich, Frankfurt and Saskatoon (Canada) and took language courses at Seville University and UNISA, South Africa. The languages came handy during her travels. Languages: Afrikaans, English, French, German and Spanish. She reads some Dutch, Italian and Portuguese.
Rosie works as a book illustrator, web designer and translator of English prose into German. She published a book, Stellenbosch Writers in 2005 and offers her children's book, Zettelwitz in German and English as print on demand. She is married to a scientist, Hans Breuer. They have three sons, Klaus, Hannes and Florian.
After their wedding they moved to Saskatoon in Canada, where Hans accepted a position as assistant professor of Physics at the University of Saskatchewan. Two years later they moved to Brownsville in Pennsylvania, USA.
Our beautiful yachtFive years later they fulfilled an old dream and bought a sailing yacht, built by a Dutch shipyard owner for himself - a beautiful 58 foot sloop. They enjoyed 5 magnificent years on board and stayed long wherever they felt happy: Starting in Lisbon, Portugal, they sailed on to Spain, Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Morocco, Canary Islands, Senegal, Gambia and ended up in the Caribbean.
While on board teaching her young sons reading, she invented the first of her Zettelwitz stories.
Back in Europe they lived for a few years in Vienna and in Schloss Urschendorf, before they finally settled down in the most beautiful corner of the world: in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Rosemarie started her 'Stellenbosch Culture' projects as a hobby, with the website and book, Stellenbosch Writers. She is currently collecting information for a multimedia CD ROM of the same title, which will feature her book, several books by and voices of famous Stellenboschers, picture galleries of Stellenbosch buildings and the flora and fauna of the area (with the help of Heemkring and others). At the same time she will concentrate on the book, Stellenbosch Artists, in colour and with the accompanying CD ROM.

Books:

Stellenbosch Writers, 2005

Zauberer Zettelwitz - Table Mountain Wizard (bi-lingual: in German and English), A Rosie Breuer Book, 2010
Die Towenaar van Tafelberg - Table Mountain Wizard (Afrikaans - English), Ein Rosie Breuer Buch, 2011More information

I read your book last night - so imaginative, fanciful, original, artisitic AND instructive! You are very clever! CONGRATULATIONS!
Anny Wynchank

More versions of the book in preparation:
On CD with animations and audio
Regions: Kalahari, Krüger Park, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Etosha and Europe
Languages: French, Spanish, Italian, isiZulu, Xhosa and Sesotho
Also in preparation: Stellenbosch Artists
Segeln mit Piff and Mauz

dtv Atlas ChemieOne of the books she illustrated won the prize of the
Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels:
One of the most beautiful books in Science 1983
Illustrations:
  • Atlas Chemie, Allgemeine und Anorganische Chemie
    dtv, München 1981
    10th edition 2004, translated into 9 languages
  • Atlas Chemie, Organische Chemie
    dtv, München, 1983 9th edition 2000, translated into 9 languages
  • Atlas Physik, Vol 1
    dtv, München, 1987
    6th edition 2000, translated into 9 languages
  • Atlas Physik, Vol 2
    dtv, München 1988
    6th edition 2000, translated into 9 languages
  • Atlas Informatik
    dtv, München, Germany, 1995
  • Zauberer Zettelwitz - Table Mountain Wizard, in German and English. Buchstabengeschichten zum Vorlesen

    The kindle version:


    New e-book (pdf) with your name direct from the author: Zauberer Zettelwitz vom Tafelberg * Table Mountain Wizard e-book * Die Towenaar van Tafelberg e-boek


    • Websites:
    Some examples of my web designs: StellenboschWriters.com   LandmarkHouse.com  www.RosieBreuer.com  Zauberer Zettelwitz  StellenboschArtists.com
    StellenboschBirds.com  Cape Seed & Bulb  CalypsoReserve.com
    Pethorn.de  Kali-katz.com  Digi4print  SchoolClusters.com

    		 
    Other Hobbies: Reading, travelling, watching birds and other wildlife, gardening, South African bulb flowers, snorkelling, pottery, poetry, web design
    I am an avid reader and the following list is far too short. Some favourite books:
    The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking AgeFrans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age (Röde Orm) - a magnificent Viking adventure and historically correct.
    Anne Rasa, Mongoose Watch: A Family Observed
    Michael Fraser and Liz Mc Mahon, A Fynbos Year and Between Two Shores
    Gwen Fagan, Roses at the Cape of Good Hope, is a work of art.
    Izak de Vries, Byna Liefde

    There is no excuse to be completely scientifically illiterate since there are excellent and entertaining books by authors such as:
    Editors: Steven Pinker; Tim Folger, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004
    Alex Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes, 2006
    Martin Rees: Just six numbers - The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
    Richard Dawkins: The selfish gene, River out of Eden, The God Delusion and more
    Ian Stewart, Nature's Numbers and more
    Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon and more
    Roger Penrose, The Nature of Space and Time (with Stephen Hawking)
    The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
    Steven Pinker, The Language instinct, How the mind works, The Blank Slate
    Simon Singh: Fermat's last theorem, The Code Book
    - just to mention a few.
    Newest titles   Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Roger Penrose, Ian Stewart


    Rosie and Kabous Meiring launching the 2 first Zettelwitz books, Woordfees, 12. 3. 2011    My family

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