Alfred Leman

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Alfred Leman (born April 9, 1925 in Nordhausen ; died February 19, 2015 in Jena ) was a German botanist and writer. He is considered one of the most important science fiction authors of GDR literature.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1943, Alfred Leman was drafted into the Air Force and after the end of the war he was an American and British prisoner of war until 1947. In 1947/48 he was trained as a teacher in Wilhelmstal and then worked until 1954 as a teacher in Neustadt / Harz , in Heiligenstadt and at the pedagogical college for kindergarten teachers in Weimar . 1955 to 1959 Leman studied biology and chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . After graduating as a biologist in 1960, he received his doctorate there and was senior assistant at the Institute for General Botany at the University of Jena until 1968 . Until his retirement in 1985 he worked as a scientific and technical employee in the research center of the VEB Carl Zeiss Jena . He was the co-author of two botanical university textbooks (including the Plant Anatomical Practical Course, which is still used today ) and has published a number of articles in specialist journals.

Together with Hans Taubert , with whom he had studied together and also collaborated scientifically, Leman began to publish science fiction stories in 1973, which appeared in the volume The gift of the transsolar . Another volume followed in 1980 with Leman's stories, The Invisible Dispatcher . In 1986 the novel Black Flowers appeared on Barnard 3 , in which a group of nine cosmonauts, six men and three women, are deposited on the third planet by Barnard's arrow star . They should just wait there for their equipment and not worry about exploring the planet filled with strange life. The conflict between curiosity and the senseless fulfillment of plans and duties escalates when the inhabitants of the planet, initially thought to be primitive, use advanced means to isolate the group of people. The novel Zilli 2062 , published in 1991, also deals with the conflict between a future world determined by commandments and prohibitions and human nature, here the super-urban world of the year of the return of Halley's comet 2062 on one side and the girl Zilla on the other.

Publications

Novels
  • Black Flowers on Barnard 3 (1986)
  • Zilli 2062 (1991)
Collections
  • The gift of the Transsolar (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • The Invisible Dispatcher (1980)
Short stories
  • Agony (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Encounter (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Bernod (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Bindings (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Stowaway (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Chronos (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Guest present (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Glass? (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Halftime (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Homecoming (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Love (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • After eight (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Parallels (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Ringelspiel (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Chess (1973, with Hans Taubert)
  • Incident (1973, with Hans Taubert, also as The Mysterious Meteorite )
  • The Invisible Dispatcher (1980)
  • The Revision (1980)
  • The Road (1980)
  • Episodes (1980)
  • It's the Last (1980)
  • In the ecological epicenter (1980)
  • Competitors (1980)
  • Tectonic Fissures (1980)
  • Disordered Relationships (1980)
  • Judgments (1980)
  • Romance in SF (1984)
  • Snow and Fire (1985)
  • Baba and the forty-two bulls (1986)
  • Feedback from the Future (1986)
  • Zero Poker (1990)
  • Circle Games (1999)
Specialist literature
  • About meiotic irregularities in hermaphrodites of Melandrium rubrum. Dissertation Jena, 1960.
  • with Wolfram Braune and Hans Taubert: Plant anatomical internship: For an introduction to the anatomy of the vegetation organs of higher plants (spermatophyta). G. Fischer VEB, Jena 1967. Numerous subsequent editions, also as an introduction to the anatomy of the vegetation organs of higher plants .
  • with Wolfram Braune and Hans Taubert: Practical course on the morphology and development history of plants: to introduce the structure, reproductive processes and ontogeny of the lower plants and the embryology of the spermatophyta. G. Fischer VEB, Jena 1976.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The next perihelion of Halley's Comet will take place on July 28, 2061.
personal data
SURNAME Leman, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2015
Place of death Jena