Jürgen Brinkmann

Jürgen Brinkmann (born January 28, 1934 in Berlin , † June 5, 1997 in Leipzig ) was a German writer who also wrote under the pseudonyms Paul Evertier and Arne Sjöberg .

Life

Jürgen Brinkmann worked as an industrial worker in the Federal Republic after the Second World War . After moving to the GDR , he completed an apprenticeship at the technical school for librarians in Leipzig from 1954 to 1957 . He then worked as a librarian in Stendal and Leipzig. From 1966 he was a freelance writer , he also worked as a lecturer at the Paul List publishing house in Leipzig .

Jürgen Brinkmann was known by his first, highly autobiographical colored Roman Frank Mellenthin . He published a number of detective novels under the name Paul Evertier and two science fiction novels under the pseudonym Arne Sjöberg . In 1973 he was awarded the Leipzig City Art Prize.

Frank Mellenthin , Leipzig 1965
Monsieur stays in the shadow , Berlin 1971 (under the name Paul Evertier , together with Werner Schmoll under his pseudonym Jean Taureau )
Eyes to see , Leipzig 1973
Of day and hour , Leipzig 1975
All the time I have , Berlin 1976
The gentle trap , Berlin 1979 (under the name Paul Evertier )
The dumb gods , Berlin 1978 (under the name Arne Sjöberg )
The Pe How comes through the world , Berlin 1982
Andromeda , Berlin 1983 (under the name Arne Sjöberg )
You don't die without asking , Berlin 1984 (under the name Paul Evertier )

Karlheinz Steinmüller : Arne Sjöberg. In: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , pp. 236-238.
Karlheinz Steinmüller: Sjöberg, Arne . In: Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature since 1900. With a View on Eastern Europe , edited by Christoph F. Lorenz, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5 , pp. 537-542.