 The only media contact to his homeland was through the German "Boa Vista" magazine, in which he first published vignettes, than later his written and illustrated (from 1977, New York) short-story comic with the cryptically and untranslatable German title "Die mysteriöse Schratzmichlöse".From 1978 to 2004 Zimmer published more than two and a half dozen kid's books.Zimmer moved to Barrytown, NY in the early 1980s, and later lived in the Rondout area of Kingston.