Georg Zauner (Author)
Georg Zauner (born April 17, 1920 in Göttingen ; † October 4, 1997 ) was a German director and science fiction author.
Life
Georg Zauner was mainly active as a director, screenplay and non-fiction writer. He shot commercials, documentaries, short and educational films for television. For the film Energy from Matter he received the film tape Lola in silver at the German Short Film Award in 1956 .
Zauner began to write fantastic literature relatively late and in 1980 published Die Enkel der Raketenbauer, a novel composed of numerous snippets of scattered information and diary entries about a post-apocalyptic Bavaria, with which he immediately won the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for the best novel of the year . His second science fiction book deals with a similar topic, but follows more traditional narrative structures. In The Forbidden Continent (1983), destroyed Europe has become an adventure playground for African expeditions, a place to find lost knowledge. Zauner later turned to fantasy .
Georg Zauner is the father of the musician Stefan Zauner from the band Münchener Freiheit .
bibliography
- The grandsons of the rocket builders. The Bajuvi Documents: Reports and Letters from the 3rd Millennium. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3751, 1980, ISBN 3-453-30654-6 .
- The forbidden continent . Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4024, 1983, ISBN 3-453-31025-X .
- Marana or The Wedding of the Elves. Benziger, 1984, ISBN 3-545-36389-9 .
- The memories of the hero Sigfrid. Benziger, 1985, ISBN 3-545-36411-9 .
Filmography
All films below (selection) are short films.
- 1953: Mechanized track renewal (camera)
- 1953: Flying Saucers (director, camera, screenplay)
- 1954: Journey into space (director, screenplay)
- 1956: Tokaido - Pictures of a Journey (camera)
- 1956: Energy from Matter (director)
- 1958: Concerto grosso (director)
- 1958: Company: Erdtrabant (director)
- 1961/62: A newspaper is created (director)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 469 f.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 1087 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Zauner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Georg Zauner in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Georg Zauner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Georg Zauner at filmportal.de
- Works by and about Georg Zauner at Open Library
- Georg Zauner on fictionfantasy.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prize winners and nominees of the German Short Film Award 1956–2006 ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, accessed December 8, 2017)
- ↑ Cf. Rolf Tzschaschel: Atomic Wars in Science-Fiction , in: The nuclear century. An interim balance , edited by Michael Salewski , pp. 226–251; here p. 246; Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07321-3 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zauner, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and science fiction writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1997 |