Bernhard Grimminger

Bernhard Grimminger (born March 28, 1942 in Memmingen ; † before 2015 in Munich ) was a German science fiction and fantasy author .

Life

Bernhard Grimminger was an advertising consultant and lived in Munich. He published fantastic stories in newspapers and magazines and was for a time editor of the Fantastische Nekrothek series in the Corian publishing house . In his satirical time travel novel Der Zeitmann he had Albert Einstein and HG Wells perform. Most of his books - he was considered an "outsider of fantastic literature" - were self-published or by small publishers, so that they are very rare today.

Works

• The village. Fantastic Stories , 1981
• The house at the lake. Fantastic stories , Tick-Tack-Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1982 (new edition 1988)
• Pyronia. Science Fiction Stories , 1983
• The factory. Environment grotesque , Corian-Verlag, Meitingen 1984
• Apartment 68. Unusual and grotesque stories , ID Verlag, Hannover 1985
• The time man. A utopian grotesque , Heyne Verlag, Munich 1987
• When the clown dies, the fun stops. Stories from Real Unreality , 1988
• Griminer's fairy tales. A good dozen plus one story , selected and edited by Wolfgang G. Trapp, 1990 (new edition 2010)

Stories and short stories

• The event in: When people died , published by Horst Hoffmann (Terra Astra 6/85)
• Strawberries , in: Johann Sebastian Bach Memorial Barbecue , edited by Wolfgang Jeschke (1990)

literature

• Handbook of alternative German-language literature , edited by Peter Engel and Christoph Schubert, 1974
• Pocket dictionary on contemporary Bavarian literature , edited by Dietz-Rüdiger Moser and Günther Reischl, 1986

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Grimminger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernhard Grimminger in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Harald Pusch in the Science Fiction Times , Issue 3, 1984, p. 26.