Dirk C. Fleck

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Dirk C. Fleck (* 1943 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and author . He was awarded the German Science Fiction Prize twice

Life

journalism

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After graduating from high school and completing an apprenticeship as a bookseller, Fleck completed his civilian alternative service in Munich. He then studied at the German School of Journalism in Munich . He volunteered at the Spandauer Volksblatt in Berlin , was the local manager of the Hamburger Morgenpost , a reporter for Tempo and an editor for Merian and Die Woche . He worked as a columnist for Die Welt and the Berliner Morgenpost , for which he wrote over 200 biographies of German personalities. He was a freelance writer for the magazines stern , GEO and Der Spiegel . Fleck lives in Hamburg.

Fleck's journalistic focus is primarily on the topic of ecology . In the mid-eighties, for example, he wrote the first German environmental protection series in the Hamburger Morgenpost : River of no return - Save the Elbe .

In August 2012, Fleck's book The Fourth Power was published by Hoffmann and Campe, which contains interviews with 25 top German journalists who were asked about their responsibility in a world that is apparently self-destructing without conscience.

Fiction

Fleck's literary career began in 1969 with a contribution to the pop anthology Supergarde (Droste-Verlag). In 1985 the self-published novel La Triviata followed .

His environmental commitment is also evident in his novels . The taz called him after the publication of the book Palmer's War (1992 - theme of eco-terrorism) the “father of the German eco-thriller”. In 1993, with the novel GO! - The eco-dictatorship presents an oppressive vision of the future.

In 2008, after a long break with The Tahiti Project , Fleck presented the first volume of the Maeva trilogy, which he recorded in 2011 with Maeva! continued and finished 2015 with a fire at the foot . In October 2009 his novel Son of a Whore - A Story of Addiction and Longing was published as an e-book . In 2010 he took part in the literary experiment Hinterland published by Karla Schmidt , an anthology published by Wurdack , for which 20 authors wrote science fiction stories based on music by David Bowie .

Awards

Publications

  • Super guard. Prose of the beat and pop generation. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969.
  • La Triviata. Self-published, 1985.
  • Palmer's war. Ecothriller. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-89136-457-1 .
  • GO! The eco-dictatorship. Novel. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89136-459-8 .
    • With the subtitle First the earth, then man. New edition with current appendix as Book on Demand , 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4808-3 .
    • Audio book / radio play by Ansgar Machalický and Robert Gummlich, Cologne 2009.
    • GO! The eco-dictatorship. New edition by p.machinery Verlag, Murnau, 2013. ISBN 978-3-942533-79-9
  • Maeva trilogy:
  • Son of a bitch. A story of addiction and longing. Roman, 2009. (published by AndersSeiten.de as an e-book )
  • V2 cutter. (Narration) In: Karla Schmidt (Ed.): Hinterland. 20 stories ... Wurdack-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-938065-69-3 .
  • The fourth power. Top journalists on their responsibility in times of crisis. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-50259-6 .
  • Everything on red. A story of addiction and longing. Limited private printing. p.machinery Verlag, Murnau 2017
  • 99 NOTES. p.machinery Verlag, Murnau 2018. ISBN 978-3-95765-120-4
  • LA TRIVIATA - The scent of the eighties. p.machinery Verlag, Murnau 2018. ISBN 978-3-95765-149-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fleck 2012 - publisher's page for the book The fourth power.
  2. ↑ taz article on: "The Fourth Power" of January 2, 2013. Accessed July 10, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Josefson: Review of Hinterland . In: The Standard . December 18, 2010, accessed December 22, 2016 .
  4. ^ Laudation for the 1984 Literature Prize of the German Science Fiction Club by Jutta Haitel. Retrieved June 10, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Laudation for the German Science Fiction Prize 2009. Accessed on September 13, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Tahiti 2008 - Spanish edition with the title El Proyecto Tahiti , Arte y Literatura publishing house, Havana (Cuba) 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Fleck, Dirk C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany