Günter Dönges

Günter Dönges (born November 14, 1923 in Duisburg ; † August 2001 ) was a German author of booklets .

Dönges graduated from high school and after his time with the Wehrmacht worked as an editor for a Düsseldorf newspaper. At the beginning of the 1950s, he also wrote cheerful novels as well as the first texts on Pat Wilding , a private detective, whom he supervised literary at Netsch-Verlag until 1953 together with its owner Günter Netsch . After he had given up his job at the newspaper and ran a stationery store, he turned to cheerful stories in particular, such as those about "Family Müller" and other novels (including crime stories and the 6-part adventure story "Der Herr des Degens", which for the loan book market emerged).

From 1954 only active as an author (for Bastei and the Zauberkreis-Verlag ), during this time he invented the character of the butler Parker . This appeared - idiosyncratic, always on the hunt for gangsters and ironically funny - initially also on the rental book market, then from number 214 of the Bastei Kriminal-Romane as a booklet and from 1972 as a separate series, which appeared until 1992. Not all, but the vast majority of the novels were written by Dönges. Other magazine series he founded were Jeff Conter , Hallelujah Fun Western and the Müller family mentioned above . Late in his career he also wrote for series such as Demon Killer and Vampire Horror Novel.

Pseudonyms used by Dönges included Glenn Larring, Dan Cillingh, John D. Acton (for Butler Parker), Jerry Lonsdale (for Westerns), Julia Wendt (for Müller family novels), Pat Wilding (a collective pseudonym for the stories of the same name Helden), Rolf van Kessel and Richard W. Drilling as well as Mac Driving (also later used by others) and Gay D. Carson.

literature

• Schmidtke, Werner G .: Günter Dönges, specialist in magazine humor, in: “The novel magazine collector” (Artus-Verlag). 1998.

Web links

• Article about Dönges at zauberspiegel-online.de
• Website about Butler Parker, also with a portrait of Dönges