Hermann Schulz was born in 1938 in Nkalinzi, East Africa, and spent his childhood and youth in Moers-Repelen. After a bookseller apprenticeship, he went into mining and worked as a hauler. Then he travelled e.g. to South America, Africa and the Middle East. From 1967 to 2001, Hermann Schulz directed the publishing house Peter Hammer Verlag in Wuppertal. Since then he has published many children’s books, young people’s fiction and reference books that are highly acclaimed by critics.