Bernd Ulbrich

This article is about science fiction writer Bernd Ulbrich. For the historian and non-fiction author of the same name, see Bernd Gerhard Ulbrich .

Bernd Ulbrich (born January 20, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German author. In the GDR he was known as a science fiction author. His works were no longer published after 1983 for ideological reasons.

Live and act

Ulbrich was born in Berlin in simple circumstances. After an apprenticeship as a chemical skilled worker (1959 to 1961) and military service in the People's Navy (1961 to 1964), he worked as a chemical skilled worker in his training company. During this time he made up his Abitur at evening school. He failed the entrance exam at the technical college and instead studied chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin. My first attempts at writing during my studies resulted in a freelance career in 1976 after four years of work as a chemist and first radio plays and short story publications ( The Hexed Cat, 1975).

Ulbrich began with radio play productions ( Havarie im Kosmos and Die Roboterfalle, 1976 and 1977), short stories, magazine articles (including Fang die Sonne auf, in Sinn und Form 3/78) and a play that was never performed. Two collections of short stories were created, The Invisible Circle (1977) and Stör size M (1980), (M stands for human), which were reprinted several times and found their way into Suhrkamp's Fantastic Library . In 1983 the band followed with stories of the present in the evenings in the park and at night and in the morning. After that, none of Ulbrich's texts were printed or staged anymore. Only reprints appeared, a total of 370,000 copies sold.

Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ulbrich was hardly noticed in the west. Two new volumes of short stories were published in 1993 and 1994 by Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag in Leipzig . Ulbrich once again mixed science fiction, utopia and fantasy with his view of the modern world, both in parental abuse or the completion of the Tower of Babel, and in If the end of the world would be tomorrow - however, as a result of legal disputes over the publisher, both books no longer reached their audiences. His post-turn production includes novels of the present and contemporary history.

After an eleven-year publication break, another book by Bernd Ulbrich was published in the summer of 2005 with the novel Flam or Diesseits und Jenseits (at Berlin's trafo-Verlag), which was followed by other books from 2014.

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Novels

• Flame or this side and the next. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89626-477-X .
• The conference or how GOD was invented. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86465-056-7 .
• Interlude with death. A novel about love. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86465-046-8 .
• Two swap their shadows in the presence of a third. 2 vols. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86465-090-1 .
• A beautiful day for the afterlife. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86465-086-4 .
• Adolf Adolf: novel of a fictional biography. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86465-085-7 .

Collections

• The invisible circle. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-360-00062-5 .
• Disturbance M. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-360-00316-0 .
• In the evening in the park and at night and in the morning. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1983.
• Parental Abuse or The Completion of the Tower of Babel. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-378-00527-0 .
• If tomorrow were the end of the world: stories about love. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-378-00555-6 .

Short stories

Here only the stories that have not appeared in collections.

• The bewitched cat. In: Ekkehard Redlin (ed.): Der Mann vom Anti. The New Berlin (SF Utopia), 1980.
• On my own behalf. In: light year 2 . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1981.
• House in the heather. In: Sinn und Form , 1983.
• Bilgoop to Terra. In: Jörg Weigand (Ed.): We are the others. Bastei Lübbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Adventure # 23093), 1989, ISBN 3-404-23093-0 .
• Frankenstein's monster. Homecoming and the end. In: Franz Rottensteiner (ed.): Fantastic encounters. Suhrkamp (Fantastic Library # 250), 1990, ISBN 3-518-38241-1 .
• An unfair game. In: Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): Time games: ex oriente science fiction. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4897), 1992, ISBN 3-453-05823-2 .

Play

• Two hikers immersed in contemplation of the moon: Piece in 1 act: Based on motifs by Caspar David Friedrich. Edited by Gerd Bedszent . Scene Space Game Vol. 8. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86465-044-4 .

literature

• Erik Simon : Bernd Ulbrich. 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. 268-271.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Ulbrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernd Ulbrich in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Author's website
• Interview with Bernd Ulbrich
• Biography at berliner-mauer.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthias Biskupek : Too white paper and pomady boxers. In: Eulenspiegel . , 51./59. Vol., No. 10/05, ISSN  0423-5975 , p. 90 f., Here p. 90.