Eberhardt del'Antonio
Karl Eberhardt del'Antonio (born April 21, 1926 in Lichtenstein-Callnberg ; † February 22, 1997 in Dresden ) was a German engineer and science fiction writer.
Life
Eberhardt del'Antonio was the son of a locksmith . He worked as a metalworker and trained as a technical draftsman . One had an unfinished study of engineering science he had in 1944 because of its convening for the Wehrmacht cancel. At the end of the Second World War he was interned for a short time and was then sent to Bremerhaven as a conscript, where he a. a. worked as a crane operator, dock worker, painter and blacksmith. He moved illegally to the Soviet occupation zone ; there he again exercised various activities such as mechanic, advertising artist and dispatcher . From 1951 he worked as a designer on the development of flow machines and set up an office for inventions. He was a member of the Chamber of Technology and the Society for Space Research and Space Travel. He also completed a distance learning course in film psychology. From 1953 to 1959 he worked in corporate culture work for GDR companies. From 1959 he lived as a freelance writer in Dresden , where he died in 1997. His grave is in the Tolkewitz urn grove .
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Eberhardt del'Antonio was primarily known for his utopian novels , in which he faithfully portrayed the problems of future societies after the completion of socialism . His greatest successes were the two novels Titanus and Homecoming of the Ancestors , of which a total of 500,000 copies were sold in the GDR. However, western critics criticized these works as not having a very original plot and wooden style.
In addition to his science fiction works - in the GDR, the US term was initially frowned upon and "utopian novel" or "scientifically fantastic novel" were used - del'Antonio also wrote a number of fairy tale games .
Works
- Gigantum. The New Berlin , Berlin 1957.
- Titanus. The New Berlin, Yellow Series , Berlin 1959.
- Sahara project. Grandstand, Berlin 1962.
- Return of the ancestors. The New Berlin, Berlin 1966.
- Oceanus. Greifenverlag , Rudolstadt 1988.
- with Jens Prockat: Full speed ahead. Book publisher Junge Welt , Berlin 1991.
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 117.
- Sonja Fritzsche: Science fiction literature in East Germany , Lang, Oxford a. a. 2006.
- Hartmut Mechtel : Eberhardt del'Antonio . In: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , pp. 94–97.
- Karlheinz Steinmüller : Del'Antonio, Eberhardt . In: Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature since 1900. With a View of Eastern Europe , edited by Christoph F. Lorenz, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5 , pp. 231-238
Web links
- Literature by and about Eberhardt del'Antonio in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eberhardt del'Antonio in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Eberhardt DelAntonio at Open Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Hartung: The Science Fiction of the GDR from 1980 to 1990 , page 123, ISBN 3-910173-05-5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Del'Antonio, Eberhardt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Del'Antonio, Karl Eberhardt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and science fiction writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lichtenstein-Callnberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1997 |
| Place of death | Dresden |