Charlotte Winheller

Charlotte Winheller (married as Charlotte Franke-Winheller , as an author also as Charlotte Franke ; born on November 27, 1935 in Mohrungen , East Prussia ; died in Munich in May 1995 ) was a German translator, science fiction editor and author.

Life

Winheller studied English literature at University College London , completed an interpreting course in Munich and then worked as a literary translator, mainly of science fiction. She has transmitted works by Poul Anderson , Margaret Atwood , James Graham Ballard , Malcolm J. Bosse , Doris P. Buck , Martin Caidin , Peter Carey , Arthur C. Clarke , Hugo Correa , Juanita Coulson , Charles V. De Vet , Joan , among others Didion , Joyce Carol Oates , Robert Sheckley, and Robert F. Young .

From 1963 to 1964 she was the editor of the first nine volumes of The Best Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , a series of anthologies selected from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction published by Heyne-Verlag . She also edited two SF anthologies, which she also translated. She was the representative of World SF in Germany for many years .

Winheller is the author of a youth science fiction novel ( The Children of the Flying City , 1977) and has written four short science fiction stories.

She was married to the science fiction writer Herbert W. Franke . After the divorce, she took her maiden name again. Her estate is in the Monacensia archive in Munich.

bibliography

novel

• The children of the flying city. Based on an idea by Herbert W. Franke. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-421-02502-9 . New edition: Xenos, 1988, ISBN 3-8212-0707-8 .

Short stories

• Because of Elsie. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 6. Heyne SF&F # 3498, 1976, ISBN 3-453-30388-1 .
• Bennie is a lovely name. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 10. Heyne SF&F # 3602, 1978, ISBN 3-453-30509-4 .
• One by one. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 10. Heyne SF&F # 3602, 1978, ISBN 3-453-30509-4 .
• It couldn't be better. In: Jörg Weigand (Ed.): Quasar 1. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22013, 1979, ISBN 3-404-01402-2 .

Non-fiction

• Exotic houseplants. Heyne, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-453-41555-8 .

Editor

• 20 Science Fiction Stories Heyne Anthologies # 2, 1963.
• 16 science fiction stories. Heyne Anthologies # 5, 1964.

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

^{Published in full by Wilhelm Heyne-Verlag}

• Saturn in the morning light (Volume 1), 1963
• The Last Element (Volume 2), 1963
• Return to the Stars (Volume 3), 1963
• Signals from Pluto (Volume 4), 1963
• The Esper Intervene (Volume 5), 1963
• The Survivors (Volume 6), 1964
• Music from Space (Volume 7), 1964
• Mistake of the machines (Volume 8), 1964
• The Crystal World (Volume 9), 1964

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 159.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 1063.

Web links

• Charlotte Winheller in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Charlotte Winheller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Charlotte Franke in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Charlotte Franke in the literature portal Bavaria, accessed on February 17, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Inventory of Monacensia , accessed on February 17, 2018