Erik Schreiber

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Erik Schreiber (born 1959 in Kassel , Hessen ) is a German writer, editor and publisher.

Life

After training as a chemical-technical assistant , Schreiber initially served as a sergeant in the armed forces and then became an industrial clerk , industrial specialist and web designer . He worked as an industrial clerk, technical clerk, firewall administrator , specialist teacher for commercial professions and as a dispatcher for the German pension insurance .

Schreiber was from youth member of the fantasy - and science fiction - fandom after by comics and Karl May an avid reader of Jules Verne , John Christopher , Donald A. Wollheim and then the Terra Nova - and Perry Rhodan - Heftroman series had become . He became a member of the active group Science-Fiction (AGSF), the Dan Shocker Fantastic Club and finally elected to the board of the Perry Rhodan Fan Zentrale . From 1978 onwards, Schreiber was the editor of the Land der Dunkel Schatten fanzine from which the Fantastic Book Letter developed, a monthly fanzine that is available free of charge as a PDF and in which Schreiber reviews the books, novels and comics that he read in the previous month. In the meantime (as of December 2019) 676 issues of the book letter have been published.

From 1988 to 1996 Schreiber editor who was heavy metal -Magazine Thats it , from 1994 to 2000 he editor and presenter with several radio broadcasts ( Shockwave Rider , cross through the night , Hi kids! , Radio Phantastica ) at the transmitter Querfunk in Karlsruhe . Since 2000, Schreiber has worked for Area64 , a program on Radio Darmstadt dedicated to fantasy and science fiction , was editor of Magira - Jahrbuch zur Fantasy , wrote reviews for the website of the role-playing game Taladas and contributed to the game magazine Mephisto . After all, in the 2000s, Schreiber was also the organizer of the Darmstadt Late Reading Evening , a series of monthly literary readings.

In 2010, Schreiber founded the publishing house Saphir im Stahl , based in Bickenbach near Darmstadt, which since then has published not only Fantastik - here, for the first time in a long time, the novels of the Raumschiff Orion series, in harcover editions - but also regional and historical items. In 2012, the anthology Mysterious Stories 2 - Steampunk , published by Schreiber, was awarded the German Fantastic Prize .

In 2006, together with Hermann Ritter , Schreiber published Fruits Full of Bitterness , a novel from the BattleTech universe, followed by a collection of SF crime short stories ( Tatort: ​​Weltraum , 2009) and a novel from the rescue cruiser Ikarus book series ( Assault of the Ts'gna , 2010).

bibliography

as an author
as editor (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik Schreiber at LovelyBooks, accessed January 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ Introduction by Erik Schreiber , accessed on January 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Mephisto , article in Warhammer Wiki Lexicanum, accessed January 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Verlag Saphir im Stahl , accessed on January 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Homo Magi - Works of the Team , accessed January 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ The "sapphire in steel" - an interview with Erik Schreiber , interview by Stefan Holzhauer from May 18, 2011 on PhantaNews , accessed on January 30, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Clerk, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Kassel , Hesse