Christian Heermann

Christian Heermann (born September 11, 1936 in Chemnitz ; † November 27, 2017 in Leipzig ) was a German Karl May biographer, writer and publicist .

Life

Christian Heermann studied physics and mathematics in Leipzig. After graduation, he worked for several years as a teacher for these subjects at a high school in Frankenberg and was from 1963 to 1992 mathematician at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig worked after 1963 with a thesis on the history of physical student exercises in Germany for Dr. ped. had received a doctorate . Although a natural scientist , the Karl May enthusiast turned to literature at an early age . He has published numerous books and was chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at Karl-May-Haus in Hohenstein-Ernstthal from 1993 to 2013 . Until March 2015 he was chairman of the Freundeskreis Karl May Leipzig e. V. and until his death member of the board of the Friends of the Free Literature Society in Leipzig.

As an author or co-author , he has written eleven books on Karl May. With Winnetou's blood brother he published an updated and much more extensive new edition of his May biography The Man Who Was Old Shatterhand in 2002 in Karl May Verlag . In 2012 a further revised second edition was published. Heermann also wrote over 2500 newspaper articles, 350 of them about the life and work of Karl May.

In his non-fiction book Der Würger von Notting Hill , which has been published several times and has been translated into seven languages , Heermann devoted himself to the "great London criminal cases" of Jack the Ripper , Adolph Beck , Thomas Neill Cream , George Chapman , Hawley Crippen , Timothy Evans / John Christie , John George Haigh , Derek Bentley, and James Hanratty . In 1974 there was no call from Sing Sing , in which Heermann reports on the big FBI cases .

Works (selection)

author

• The Notting Hill Strangler. Great London criminal cases . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1970 (9th edition 1999) - translated into seven languages
• The multiplication tables are no longer enough. Mathematics in everyday life . (= Rainbow series ) Children's book publisher, Berlin 1973
• From number to law. Math in our life . (= Rainbow series ) Children's book publisher, Berlin 1974
• No call from Sing Sing. Big FBI cases . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1974 - translated into six languages
• Secret weapon flying saucers. Crooks - jugglers - gangsters. A crime report on business and crime with stupidity . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1981
• The man who was Old Shatterhand . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1988
• Karl May, the old Dessauer and an 'old Dessauerin' . Anhaltische Verlagsgesellschaft, Dessau 1990, ISBN 3-910192-02-5 .
• Travels to Karl May: memorials in Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia . Westsachsen-Verlag, Zwickau 1992, ISBN 3-350-00438-5 . (in cooperation with Wolfgang Hallmann)
• Old Shatterhand did not ride on behalf of the working class . Anhaltische Verlagsgesellschaft, Dessau 1995, ISBN 3-910192-32-7 .
• Winnetou's blood brother . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 2002, ISBN 3-7802-0161-5 .
• Winnetou in Dresden . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 2012, ISBN 3-7802-3084-4 .
• Ice bombers from Bitterfeld: Hans Dominik and Hugo Junkers . Anhalt Edition Dessau, Dessau 2014, ISBN 3-936383-23-5 .

editor

• The book accompanying the exhibitions . Karl-May-Haus, Hohenstein-Ernstthal 1995
• Karl May on the Saxon paths . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 1999, ISBN 3-7802-0155-0 .
• Greetings from Old Shatterhand . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-355-01344-7 .
• Karl-May-Haus Information (periodical of the Karl-May-Haus Hohenstein-Ernstthal; until 2009)
• three Karl May volumes from the Treptower publishing house ( Adventure in Saxony , Adventure in the Ore Mountains , Der Waldkönig )

literature

• Karla Hartlepp: " Experiences of the editorial team" Wochenpost " " (Diploma thesis, 1984)
• Karl May was and is a constant companion - An interview with Christian Heermann (Campfire Talks 1). in: Karl May & Co. No. 95 / February 2004
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2006/2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Heermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Christian Heermann in the Saxon Bibliography
• Portrait on the homepage of the Förderkreis Freie Literaturgesellschaft
• Entry at karl-may-wiki.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Heermann deceased , in: Karl-May-Magazin of November 28, 2017.
2. ↑ Jan Emendörfer: It all started with the “treasure in Silbersee”: Leipzig writer and Karl May biographer Christian Heermann is dead , in: Leipziger Volkszeitung Online from November 28, 2017.
3. ^ Christian Heermann. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 375.