Erhard Ringer
Erhard Ringer (born April 10, 1960 in Kitzbühel , Tyrol ; † April 2, 2019 in Vienna ) was an Austrian graphic designer and publisher.
After training as an electrical engineer and doing military service, he worked from 1980 to 1990 as a telecommunications instructor at a military academy. He was deployed several times as a blue helmet soldier , including on the Golan Heights . From 1991 to 1992 he made further training in the IT sector and worked as a graphic designer and graphic artist from 1993 to 2000 and since 2004 as a freelancer , among others for Piper Verlag and Heyne Verlag .
Ringer became known among readers of science fiction and fantasy literature through graphics, in particular maps of fictional areas, countries and worlds, including Magira , Erdsee , Pern and Dune .
Among other things, he created cards for works by Alan Burt Akers , Leigh Brackett , CJ Cherryh , L. Sprague de Camp , Stephen R. Donaldson , Arthur Conan Doyle , David Eddings , William R. Forstchen , Elizabeth Haydon , Frank Herbert , Wolfgang Hohlbein , Robert E. Howard , Wolfgang Jeschke , Robert Jordan , Tanith Lee , Ursula K. Le Guin , Fritz Leiber , CS Lewis , Anne McCaffrey , Michael Moorcock , John Norman , Michael A. Stackpole , Jack Vance and Hugh Walker .
Together with Hermann Urbanek , he published two volumes of fantasy stories in the 1980s, and in 1992 he wrote The Conan Universe , where, including the comics, he traced the fictional life of Conan the Cimmerian with numerous detailed maps.
Ringer died of cancer on April 2, 2019 in Vienna.
bibliography
As editor
- (with Hermann Urbanek ) Ashtaru the Terrible , fantasy stories, Heyne 1982, ISBN 3-4533-0833-6
- (with Hermann Urbanek ) The Gods of Pegana , Fantasy-Erzählungen, Heyne 1986, ISBN 3-4533-1040-3
As an author
- The Conan Universum , Heyne 1992, ISBN 3-4530-5859-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Erhard Ringer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ringer, Erhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian graphic designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kitzbühel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd April 2019 |
| Place of death | Vienna |