Carl Grunert (writer)

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Carl Grunert , also Karl Grunert , pseudonym Carl Friedland , (born November 2, 1865 in Naumburg an der Saale , † April 22, 1918 in Erkner near Berlin ) was a German writer who wrote future stories, plays and poems.

Life

Little is known about the life of Carl Grunert. He was born in Naumburg an der Saale (then Prussia, today Saxony-Anhalt). Here he later worked as a teacher at the cathedral high school. He moved to Berlin (near the Müggelsee), where he continued to work as a teacher. Grunert was married to Erna Huth and had a son with her. He died of pneumonia in Erkner near Berlin at the age of 52.

Artistic creation

Grunert was an avid reader and admirer of the father of German future literature Kurd Laßwitz and the founder of future literature, the French Jules Verne , and the British Herbert George Wells . His work was influenced in part by these writers. Essentially, he wrote narratives of the genre future literature, which he himself called future novels .

He is one of the most important writers in the field of future literature in Germany and, alongside Kurd Laßwitz and Oskar Hoffmann, is regarded as the founder of this genre in Germany, although he never wrote novels himself, only short stories. Each of his future novellas is based on an original scientific future idea.

See also

Generally in the genre under: Future literature

Works

Von Grunert published various volumes of poetry and plays both under his own name and under the pseudonym Carl Friedland . The vast majority of his work is in the field of future stories: 32 stories (future novels) are known, which have been collected in book form. Some stories were previously published in newspapers , magazines, or in books with other authors.

His story Enemies in Space appeared in 1952 in the United States in the anthology Invaders of Earth edited by Groff Conklin under the title Enemies in Space .

Poetry

  • Simple poems . 1887 (as Carl Friedland)
  • What the hour spoke . 1907, expanded edition 1909
  • Love and life . 1910
  • From my world . 1911

Plays

  • Judas Iscariot . 1888
  • You are divorced! 1887
  • Here Rudelsburg! Here is Naumburg! 1909

Narrative collections

  • In the earthly beyond . 1903 (contains 7 future novellas)
  • Tomorrow's people . 1905 (contains 3 future novellas)
  • Enemies in space . 1907 (contains 4 future novellas)
  • The Mars Spy . Illustrations Ernst Stern . Preface by Karlernst Knatz . Berlin: Book publishing for the German House, 1908 (contains 10 future novellas)

Future novellas

Between 1903 and 1914, 33 future novellas were written.

  • The submarine telephone office
  • Captured sunshine
  • On the wings of the world ether
  • Long-distance marriage
  • Scarlatina (A Fever Dream)
  • The gas X
  • Among the Papuans (An Easter Tale)
  • The radium brake
  • A riddle of the air
  • The gift of Oxygenius
  • Enemies in space?
  • Nitakert's awakening
  • Adam Perennius, the timeless
  • The stranger
  • Homecoming
  • Mr. Vivacius Style
  • On the fly to peace
  • The man from the moon
  • The Mars Spy
  • Pierre Maurignac's adventure (published in the GDR in 1974 under the title "Das Zeitfahrrad")
  • The egg of the primeval bird
  • catalysis
  • A stray telephone wire
  • Balloon and islet
  • Mysis
  • The end of the earth?
  • The white riddle
  • Mr. Infrangible's invention
  • The phonogram of Pompeii
  • The writing monkey
  • The machine of Theodulos Energeios
  • The ether soul man
  • Problems solved

literature

  • Detlef Münch: Carl Grunert (1865-1918), the pioneer of German short story science fiction. Synergen, Dortmund 2005 (= contributions to the bibliography and review of German Science Fiction 4), ISBN 3-935634-52-8
  • Thomas Harbach: Carl Grunert: Of evil extraterrestrials and true love , in: Quarber Merkur 103/104, Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy, Passau 2006, pp. 49-70. ISBN 978-3-932621-91-8
  • Julia Silberer: Grunert, Carl . In: Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature since 1900. With a look at Eastern Europe , edited by Christoph F. Lorenz, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5 , pp. 321–326.

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Grunert  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alpers / Fuchs / Hahn / Jeschke: Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature, 1988, p. 504.
personal data
SURNAME Grunert, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grunert, Karl; Friedland, Carl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1918
Place of death Erkner near Berlin