Freder van Holk

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Freder van Holk (actually Paul Alfred Müller; born October 18, 1901 in Halle ; † January 1, 1970 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German author, best known for his series of novels and his science fiction literature.

Life

Paul Alfred Müller, nickname Alfred, first worked as a primary school teacher from 1923 . He attended the Technical University and then took up studies at the University of Leipzig , which he completed as a trade teacher. He worked as a vocational school teacher until 1930 and then became head of the construction department at the Master School of German Crafts in Leipzig .

At the beginning of the 1930s, Müller began writing alongside his work. One of his first works, the booklet series Sun Koh, was a great success and over the decades influenced aspiring authors such as Walter Ernsting and Herbert W. Franke . Encouraged by this, he made writing his profession, although he did not commit to one genre . He has penned crime, wild west and entertainment novels as well as science fiction, utopian and fantastic works. He also wrote the series of novels Jan Mayen , a successor to Sun Koh , which was not as successful.

In 1948 he moved to Murnau am Staffelsee in Bavaria. He remained very productive, but the great success did not materialize. The series Rah Norten, the Conqueror of Space was discontinued after 20 episodes. He participated as an author of series such as Mark Powers and Commissioner X . Before his death on New Year's Day in 1970, he was no longer able to realize his plan to continue the tradition of Sun Koh with Kim Roy .

Müller wrote and published under a variety of pseudonyms. The Sun Koh series was published under the name Lok Myler , the new paperback edition was published in the 1970s under Freder van Holk. For the series Kommissar X he wrote as Bert F. Island , other pseudonyms were PA Müller , PA Müller-Murnau , Lok Müller , Jan Holk and Werner Keyen . In total, he wrote several hundred entertaining novels in a variety of genres.

In private, Müller was a supporter of the hollow world theory for many years . Only after the launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957 did he abandon this view. Nevertheless, his initially planned participation in the Perry-Rhodan series failed in 1960 because he wanted it to be played in a hollow world and not in space. As early as 1939 he described humanity living inside a hollow earth: The novel And She Doesn't Move was initially published under his name. He published an edited version in 1951 under the title And she does not move and under his pseudonym Freder van Holk . This edition was also published in 2013.

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Booklet series

designed and written by Müller:

Participation as an author:

Book publications
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal's pleasure play poem (1935, dissertation 1934)
  • The Diamond Cliff (1936)
  • Society Trip - All Included (1938)
  • Blue Ball (1938, as Lok Myler, changed new editions in 1941 and 1954, 2011 new edition of the 1954 edition published and provided with an introduction by Heinz J. Galle and Dieter von Reeken)
  • Mr. Vandenberg's soap bubbles (1939, as Paul A. Müller)
  • And yet it doesn't move (1939, as Paul A. Müller)
  • Solar Motor No. 1 (1940)
  • And all fires go out on earth (1948)
  • Maybe tomorrow is the last day (1948)
  • The big mirror (1949)
  • Assassination attempt on the universe (1949)
  • The growing sun (collection, 1950)
  • Ray from the Cosmos (1950)
  • The Vultures (1950)
  • The Earth Burns (1951)
  • The End of the Gulf Stream (1952)
  • Humus (1952)
  • Space Station (1952)
  • The Immortals (1952)
  • The Scar (1952)
  • Eerie Light Discs (1953)
  • Grapes from Greenland (1953)
  • Guided Souls (1954)
  • Kosmotron (1955)
  • Hell Below Us (1955)
  • Earth Unleashed (1957)
  • Beyond Light (1958, as Werner Keyen)
  • People in the Moon (1959, as Werner Keyen)
  • Leap across the ages (1959, as Werner Keyen)
  • Doomsday (1959)

literature

  • Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 209.
  • Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , pp. 556-558.
  • Heinz J. Galle, Markus Rudolf Bauer: Sun Koh, the heir of Atlantis and other German supermen: Paul Alfred Müller alias Lok Myler alias Freder van Holk. Life and work. SSI-Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-9521172-0-X
  • Heinz J. Galle: Müller, Paul Alfred . In: Christoph F. Lorenz (Ed.): Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature since 1900. With a look at Eastern Europe. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5 , pp. 449–458.
  • Brigitte Salmen (Ed.): Atlantis rises: Paul Alfred Müller - Science-Fiction from Murnau: Special exhibition in the Murnau Castle Museum, December 5, 2008 to March 1, 2009: In cooperation with the Institute for Popular Cultures of the University of Zurich. Murnau Castle Museum, Murnau 2008, ISBN 978-3-932276-30-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Holk, Freder van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Paul Alfred (real name); Holk, Jan (pseudonym); Iceland, Bert F. (pseudonym); Keyen, Werner (pseudonym); Müller, Lok (pseudonym); Müller, PA (pseudonym); Müller-Murnau, PA (pseudonym); Myler, Lok (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle, Saale
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1970
Place of death Murnau am Staffelsee