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Rosemarie Breuer

Book Illustrator and Web Designer
Author of Stellenbosch Writers and Zauberer Zettelwitz/Zettelwitz the wizard

Born on 2.12.1943 near Berlin, Rosemarie, née Berg, grew up in the Taunus Mountains near Wiesbaden, in Fischbach.
She studied Romance Languages - Latin, French and Spanish - in Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Seville and Saskatoon, Canada and at Unisa. The languages came very handy during her travels. Languages: Afrikaans, English, French, German, Spanish and (reads) Dutch, Italian and Portuguese
Rosie works as a book illustrator and web designer. She is married to a scientist, Hans Breuer. They have three sons, Klaus, Hannes and Florian.
In 1967 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.
In August 1971 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.
Back in Europe they lived for a few years in and near Vienna, 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. Now that the book is published, she is working on a multimedia CD ROM of the same title, which will feature the updated website, several books by and voices of famous Stellenboschers, picture galleries of Stellenbosch buildings and the flora and fauna of the area.
She is also working on a book about their adventure on sea: Segeln mit Piff und Mauz - 5 Jahre an Bord Kajen
Future projects: A book and CD ROM on Stellenbosch artists and their work.
While on board teaching her young sons reading, she invented the Zettelwitz stories.

One of the books she illustrated, Atlas Chemie II, (written by Hans), 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, Buchstabengeschichten zum Vorlesen