Eugen Oker

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Eugen Oker , real name Friedrich "Fritz" Gebhardt , (born June 24, 1919 in Schwandorf in the Upper Palatinate ; † March 14, 2006 in Munich ) was a " game critic " for ZEIT , Frankfurter Rundschau and Bayerischer Rundfunk . As a writer , he became familiar with the Babbag stories .

Life

Eugen Oker grew up in Schwandorf. He attended secondary school (today: Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium ) in Amberg and trained first as a surveying technician (photogrammeter) and later - in his parents' business - as a master stove fitter . After the war he also worked as a football reporter, newspaper correspondent and bookseller . Since 1970 Eugen Oker lived as a freelance writer in Munich .

Eugen Oker was the first to write game reviews for Die Zeit between 1964 and 1971 and later for the Frankfurter Rundschau from 1972 to 1975 . In the press he was often referred to as the “game pope”. On January 26, 1971, he was a guest of Robert Lembke's games critic in the cheerful career advising What am I? Oker processed Games also editorial and wrote game instructions on how the game Agent by Eric Solomon .

In 1991 he founded the Schirgelpostille , the first and only magazine in the world for viewing spatial images without optical aids.

Awards

Works

  • Winnetou in Bavaria , 1961, ISBN 978-3934863071
  • One language in many tongues , 17 dialect poems, 1966
  • Eugen Oker's Spielwiese , essays on games, 1968
  • Parodi , literary card game, 1969
  • Babba, says Maxl, you have to tell me a story , family book, 1973 (as audio book 2005)
  • The Chiemsee fleet
  • Games of the World , The most beautiful book about games from all over the world that have stood the test of time, 1976
  • Mind games of the world , German adaptation and installation, 1977
  • So was schüins mou ma soucha , Upper Palatinate dialect lyric, 1978
  • Threads of life , picaresque biographies, 1979
  • To hell with my garden , Antigartenbuch, 1979
  • ... and I the standard bearer , fictional diary of a Hitler Youth, 1980
  • The Elefant, the Maxl, the Babba and Class 4b , Family Book II, 1980
  • Scheißmaschin , Of devices, gadgets , instruments and institutions that make our lives easier by making us hell, 1980
  • Bavaria where hardly anyone knows. Bavarian rarities, Volume I , 1982
  • Bavaria where hardly anyone knows. Bavarian rarities, Volume II , 1983
  • Word games , word games and language games, 1984
  • Once upon a time there was a man ... children's poems, 1984
  • Bavaria where hardly anyone knows. Bavarian rarities, Volume III , 1985
  • Games of the World (Ed.), 1985
  • Bavaria where hardly anyone knows. Bavarian rarities, Volume IV , 1986
  • Life sweater. The adventures of Fritz Kagerer from Schwanheim . Roman, 1986
  • The cuckoo of Timbuktu or animals are also people , informative, illustrated verses about animals and birds from Brehm's animal life, 1987
  • How do you say to in Bavaria ... An all-Bavarian dialect atlas, 1988
  • The Konitz murder affair , a farce, 1989
  • Just the King and Other Stories , 1993
  • Knaur's new game book for the whole family , 1994
  • So wos Schüins mou ma soucha , poems in the Upper Palatinate dialect, 1995
  • Payable after the final victory , war novel 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Geiger: Views of a word player. Mittelbayerische.de, June 23, 2019, accessed on October 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ Herbert Feuerstein: The nine lives of Mr. F. autobiography. Ullstein Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-550-08087-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Oker, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebhardt, Friedrich (real name); Gebhardt, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and game critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwandorf , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2006
Place of death Munich