Detlef Koehler

Detlef Köhler (born June 11, 1962 ; died September 22, 2016 ) was a German writer.

Life

Koehler worked for a study of physics and astronomy at the University of Jena as IT - system administrator in Thuringia , was the owner of an IT company and organized in his spare time traveling to the Space Center of ESA to Kourou in French Guiana . He also wrote articles about astronomy and space travel in specialist journals and on the Internet and was involved in the Planetary Society , the German Aerospace Society and the RaBe eV Institute, which deals with the history of German-Soviet rocket development in Bleicherode .

His interest in astronomy and space travel led him to publish a book about the search for extraterrestrial life in 1996 and to write a science fiction trilogy, which was published by Projekt-Verlag Cornelius from 2009 . A second edition appeared in 2016 in the edition SOLAR-X.

Köhler was married, had two children and lived in Großfurra near Sondershausen in Thuringia until his death .

bibliography

• Contact with space: science in search of our own kind in space. Strong Dr. & Advertising Products, Sondershausen 1998, ISBN 3-9805829-5-7 .
• Interstellar Odyssey. Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3-86634-775-5 .
• Interstellar mystery. Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2011, ISBN 978-3-86237-607-0 .
• Interstellar paradox. Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2013, ISBN 978-3-95486-433-1 .

Web links

• Detlef Köhler in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Detlef Köhler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Detlef Köhler on LovelyBooks
• Detlef Köhler on LibraryThing (English)
• Detlef Köhler on Goodreads.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary in the Thüringer Allgemeine , accessed on January 30, 2020.
2. ↑ Author Detlef Köhler on Amazon.de, accessed on January 30, 2020.