Frank Töppe

Frank Töppe (born June 2, 1947 in Bleicherode ; † August 8, 1997 in Meerbusch ) was a German author and graphic artist.

Life

Töppe studied economics , received his doctorate in 1973 and spent several years doing scientific research in this area. From 1976 to 1978 he worked as a publishing editor.

His "methodological, phenomenological inclination, which is oriented towards the context and strives to grasp the world and man as a unit" (Töppe about himself) formed the background of his turn to science fiction literature. In 1978 his utopian short story volume Regen auf Tyche was published . From this point on he was exclusively active as an artist.

There were publications of stories, poems, essays, radio plays over newspapers, magazines and radio stations, radio lectures on the effects of modern music. In the field of fine arts, book covers, illustrations, posters, and free graphics have been published.

In 1980 his children's book The Green Tuul was published . An invitation issued in the same year by Joseph Beuys to his FIU in Düsseldorf to read his 1978/79 work Ein Gastmahl Goethe or Die Verfluche der Ökonomie angered the GDR Ministry of Culture: current contracts were terminated, subsequent editions prevented, new projects rejected. In 1983 Töppe fled to West Germany.

In 1984 Bert Schlender published the story Depth of the Place . Töppe's main work, The Secret of the Well - Attempt at a Mythology of Fairy Tales , was written between 1980 and 1990. It comprises four volumes. The end of this work is the independent volume In the Sign of the Three Golden Hair , which was created in the subsequent period up to 1993. All five volumes were published by Edition Vogelmann. In the period from 1994 to 1997, eight further books with poems and stories by Töppe were published by the same publisher.

Works

• Rain on Tyche. All-stories, told by the space pilot Roul, using texts from earthly and extraterrestrials . The New Berlin , Berlin 1978.
• The green Tuul. A picture book. Children's book publisher Berlin , Berlin 1980.
• Depth of the place or future topography of the Hercynian forest. A fantastic hike. Story, Schlender, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-88051-069-5 . Also as: Future topography of the Hercynian forest. With 20 drawings by Holger Runge. Edition Vogelmann, Meerbusch-Büderich near Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-89170-023-7 .
• A feast of Goethe: given several years ago or The Curse of the Economy. With 80 ink drawings by Stephan Stüttgen. Edition Vogelmann published by Erb-Verlag, Meerbusch-Büderich near Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-89170-002-4 .
• The secret of the well. Attempt a mythology of fairy tales . Edition Vogelmann, Meerbusch-Büderich near Düsseldorf.
  • Volume 1: Of maids, mothers and aunts; Judgment Day; the holy wedding. 1985, ISBN 3-88458-750-1 .
  • Volume 2: 1986, ISBN 3-89170-000-8 .
  • Volume 3: The Love of Those Who Are Pure in Heart: The Long Journey of the Heavenly Virgin; About calling out the moon and the sun. 1986, ISBN 3-89170-008-3 .
  • Volume 4: Origin of the Easter bill. 1988, ISBN 3-89170-009-1 .
• Under the sign of the three golden hairs. The devil with the three golden hairs, the griffin. The relationships between the two texts, to the corresponding texts in the first edition of the Grimm fairy tales and an F. v. Arnim tradition. Edition Vogelmann, Meerbusch-Büderich near Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-89170-010-5 .
• Words in prose - forms in graphite. Poems and graphics. Edition Vogelmann, Meerbusch-Büderich near Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-89170-014-8 .
• The shade of yellow. Notes to institutions. Edition Vogelmann, Meerbusch-Büderich near Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-89170-019-9 .
• Poems. Edition Vogelmann, Meerbusch-Büderich near Düsseldorf 1996.
  • Volume 1: First apartment attempt. ISBN 3-89170-022-9 .
  • Volume 2: The hibiscus branch has four flowers. ISBN 3-89170-021-0 .
• Lowlands. Narration, with pictures by Holger Runge. Edition Vogelmann, Meerbusch-Büderich near Düsseldorf 1996.
• White pleased. 1996.
• The year. 1997.

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 411.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 973 f.
• Karsten Kruschel : Frank Töppe. In: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , pp. 259-261.

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank Töppe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Frank Töppe in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Frank Töppe at Open Library