Gray series
The Gray series or Ensikat series was a series of books in paperback format for detective stories . The series was published in the GDR by the Das Neue Berlin publishing house , which was taken over by the Eulenspiegel publishing group after the fall of the Berlin Wall . By 1990 there were 39 titles, the last appeared shortly after the takeover. In essence, classic detective novels and stories were published. The cover design of the first 35 volumes was done by Klaus Ensikat , that of the last four by Klaus Müller . Both used a naturalistic black-and-white drawing for the cover, hence the respective series designations used by collectors. The focus of the series was on classic German-language crime novels and stories, but also crime fiction from France, England and other countries.
The series was published from 1971 to 1990 in cardboard volumes without a cover. Despite the change of the cover artist, the cover design was never changed, so the volumes have a high recognition value . As a rule, the editions were accompanied by an afterword, for example by Barbara Neuhaus or Herbert Greiner-Mai .
list
| Years of editions | Title (original title) | author | Remarks | epilogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Deruga case | Ricarda Yikes | Novel (1917) | Herbert Greiner-May |
| 1971/1985 | The story of Diethelm von Buchenberg | Berthold Auerbach | Novel (1852) | Hans Joachim Kruse (preface) |
| 1973/1980/1988 | The Lerouge case (L'affaire Lerouge) | Émile Gaboriau | Novel (1863) | Karl Heinz Berger |
| 1973/1985 | The Moonstone (The Moonstone) | William Wilkie Collins | Novel (1868) | Karl Heinz Berger |
| 1975 | The dead from Beverly Hills | Curt Goetz | Novel (1951) | Karl Heinz Berger |
| 1975/1987 | Colomba | Prosper Mérimée | Novel (1840) | Herbert Greiner-May |
| 1976/1987 | Gabriel Lambert | Alexandre Dumas | Novel (1844) | Hans Jürgen Hartmann |
| 1976/1987 | The Insoluble Problem | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | stories | Karl Heinz Berger |
| 1977/1989 | Pavel, the poor devil (Горемыка Павел) | Maxim Gorky | Novel (1894) | Herbert Greiner-May |
| 1978 | The Secret of the Yellow Room (Le mystère de la chambre jaune) | Gaston Leroux | Novel (1907) | Klaus Walther |
| 1978/1988 | The ivy. A Sardinian Family Tragedy (L'edera) | Grazia Deledda | Novel (1905) | Irene Kruse |
| 1979 | The murder by chance | Oskar Maria Graf | stories | Herbert Greiner-May |
| 1979 | Raffles as Judge (Mr Justice Raffles) | Ernest William Hornung | Novel (1909) | Klaus Walther |
| 1983 | Monsieur Lecoq | Émile Gaboriau | Novel (1869) | Alice Berger |
| 1983 | The frontier hunter | Jakob Boßhart | stories | Hans Joachim Kruse |
| 1983 | The money on the street (Get-rich-quick Wallingford) | George Randolph Chester | Novel (1908) | Reinhard Lehmann |
| 1983/1988 | Thérèse Raquin | Emile Zola | Novel (1867) | Hans Joachim Kruse |
| 1984 | Maria Schweidler, the amber witch | Wilhelm Meinhold | Novel (1843) | Hans Joachim Kruse |
| 1984 | Under heavy charges | Ludwig Anzengruber | stories | Hans Joachim Kruse |
| 1984 | John Jago's Ghost | William Wilkie Collins | stories | without an afterword |
| 1984/1986 | The Mystery of a Hansom Cab | Fergus Wright Hume | Novel (1886) | Hainer Plaul |
| 1985 | Misanthropists | Dietrich Theden | Novel (1904) | Barbara Neuhaus |
| 1985 | The Big Bow Mystery | Israel Zangwill | 2 stories | Reinhard Lehmann |
| 1985/1986/1988 | The tigress | Walter Serner | Novel (1925) | Joachim Schreck |
| 1985/1990 | The Graef trial | Paul Lindau | Court reports | Hans Joachim Kruse |
| 1986 | Under the pear tree . Ellernklipp | Theodor Fontane | 2 novellas | without an afterword |
| 1986 | Wilson the Crazy (Pudd'nhead Wilson) | Mark Twain | Novel (1894) | without an afterword |
| 1987 | The secret of the Brintnerhof | Erich Ebenstein (pseud. For Annie Hruschka ) | Novel (1924) | without an afterword |
| 1987/1990 | A drama on the hunt (Драма на охоте) | Anton Chekhov | Novel (1884) | without an afterword |
| 1988 | Andrea Delfin . Miss Johanne | Paul Heyse | 2 stories | Helge Martini |
| 1988 | The trip to Tilsit | Hermann Sudermann | Stories from: Lithuanian Stories (1917) | Helge Martini |
| 1988 | Sergeant Studer | Friedrich Glauser | Novel (1936) | Reinhard Hillich |
| 1989 | File 113 (Le Dossier N ° 113) | Émile Gaboriau | Novel (1867) | without an afterword |
| 1989 | André Cornélis | Charles-Joseph-Paul Bourget | Novel (1887) | Irene Kruse |
| 1989 | The secret of the old | Sven Elvestad | stories | Hainer Plaul |
| 1990 | The crime of Orcival (Le crime d'Orcival) | Émile Gaboriau | Novel (1867) | without an afterword |
| 1990 | Stuffing cake. A story of sea and murder | Wilhelm Raabe | Novel (1891) | Barbara Neuhaus |
| 1990 | The black cabinet and social silhouettes | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | A novel (1882) and short stories (1873) | Karl Emmerich |
| 1990 | Catherine. Story of a Crime (Catherine) | William Makepeace Thackeray | Roman (1839/40) | Irene Kruse |
literature
- Dieter Spiller: Catalog of the GDR entertainment literature . Self-published, Cottbus 1995; 2012 revised edition (with Tilo Opitz)
- Waltraud Woeller: Illustrated history of crime literature . Edition, Leipzig 1984