Hanns Kneifel

Hanns Kneifel 2007 in conversation with Roland Rosenbauer

Hanns Kneifel (actually Johannes Wilhelm Rudolf Kneifel ; born July 11, 1936 in Gleiwitz ; † March 7, 2012 in Munich ) was a German writer , best known as an author of science fiction and here as the author of numerous Perry Rhodan novels. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Alexander Carr and Hiva Kelasker.

Life

Hanns Kneifel was born in Upper Silesia and grew up in Upper Bavaria from 1945. From 1948 he lived in Munich and temporarily on Sardinia . After training as a master confectioner and graduating from high school in 1960, he began studying pedagogy , which he completed in 1965 with the state examination. He was then a vocational school teacher in Kitzingen until he decided to become a freelance writer. In 1956 he made his debut with the novel Uns rufen die Sterne , inspired by the movie Endstation Moon . His first Perry-Rhodan paperback was published in 1965, and three years later he was appointed to the team of the Perry-Rhodan series. In the 1980s he was editor-in-chief of the city magazine Wir Münchener . After years of abstinence, he wrote again as a guest author on the Perry Rhodan series from 2000 to 2012. He died on March 7, 2012 after a brief serious illness in Munich.

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In addition to his contributions to the Perry Rhodan series, Hanns Kneifel has written a series of books on the television series Raumpatrouille Orion , some of which have also been published in Sweden and Brazil . There are also some stand-alone novels, for example The Burning Labyrinth . Kneifel also wrote for the Fantasy -Heftserien Dragon - Sons of Atlantis (1973-1975) and Mythor (from 1980) and under the pseudonym Hivar Kelasker for horror -Heftserie Dämonenkiller (1975-76) and in 1987 as Sean Beaufort for the comic series Sea wolves, corsairs of the world's oceans . He also wrote non-fiction books ( Menschen zum Mond , 1969) and radio plays ( Sdayowy or Supposed Event inapplicable , with Dieter Hasselblatt , 1974). From the 1990s to 2006, Kneifel wrote several historical novels.

Bibliography (selection)

• The stars called us , AWA-Verlag Munich 1956 (future novel)
• OASIS , AWA-Verlag Munich 1958 (future novel)
• Further than you suspect , AWA-Verlag Munich 1959 (future novel )
• The burning labyrinth (Science Fiction), Heyne 1967, revised new edition by Haffmans Verlag 1989
• Pompeii - Escape from fire and ashes (historical), Arena Verlag Würzburg 1992. ISBN 3-401-04412-5
• Prince Falkenherz - The Conspiracy (Fantasy), Loewes Verlag Bindlach 1993. ISBN 3-7855-2562-1
• Prinz Falkenherz - The way to Camelot (Fantasy), Loewes Verlag Bindlach 1993. ISBN 3-7855-2598-2
• Star chase (Science Fiction), Lübbe 1994. ISBN 3-404-23151-1
• Babylon - The Seal of Hammurabi (historical), Franz Schneekluth Verlag Munich 1994. ISBN 3-7951-1321-0
• The bronze dealer , Schneekluth 1994. ISBN 3-7951-1322-9
• Hatshepsut - The Pharaoh , Schneekluth 1995. ISBN 3-7951-1323-7
• The last dream of the Pharaoh , Schneekluth 1996. ISBN 3-7951-1393-8
• Incense for the Pharaoh , Thienemanns Verlag Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 3-522-16922-0
• Darius the Great - King of the Persians (historical), Schneekluth 1998. ISBN 3-7951-1640-6
• The Knights of Avalon (historical), Bastei-Lübbe 2001. ISBN 3-404-14611-5
• The crusaders (historical), vgs 2002. ISBN 3-8025-2872-7
• Doctor Eisenbarth (historical), MZ Buchverlag 2002. ISBN 3-934863-12-4
• Katharina the Great (historical), Heyne 2003. ISBN 3-453-86518-9
• I, Francis Drake (historical), Heyne 2005. ISBN 3-453-87806-X
• Hakonwulf von Thule (Fantasy), Fabylon 2006. ISBN 978-3-927071-16-2
• Gate of the Thousand Suns (SF novel), Fantasy Productions 2008. ISBN 978-3-89064-602-2
• Galactic Odyssey (science fiction), Fanpro 2009. ISBN 978-3-89064-603-9
• The angel of the apocalypse (historical), Bastei-Lübbe 2010. ISBN 978-3-404-16406-6
• Jerusalem (historical), Bastei-Lübbe 2011. ISBN 978-3-404-16533-9
• Orion space patrol. 3 volumes, Bickenbach: Saphir im Stahl 2011
  • Volume 1: Attack from Space. Planet out of course ISBN 978-3-9813823-0-3
  • Volume 2: The Guardians of the Law. Deserters ISBN 978-3-9813823-1-0
  • Volume 3: Battle for the Sun. The space trap. Invasion. ISBN 978-3-9813823-2-7

criticism

• Michael Nagula (on the revised new edition of The Burning Labyrinth ): “… here it is the way in which these topoi are used that causes the novel's unique quality. The original storyline… is woven around discussions and reflections, which in their diversity offer a panopticon of possible life in the future, including love, technology and war, and are stylistically oriented towards Jack Vance . ”“ The burning labyrinth , just as exciting How fascinating, is one of the best entertainment novels that German post-war literature has produced in the context of the SF genre ... "
• Reclam's science fiction guide : “His early novels showed promise, but the later ones flattened out under the pressure of mass production. K's meanwhile more than 400 notebook novels suffer from standard characters with artificial vocabulary and a lack of action; his figures are blasé stupers who demonstrate their high level of education to one another using quotes from the classics, while sipping champagne from silver goblets. His worlds are either brightly colored and antiseptic or primeval and barbaric. In the initial phase, the more classic SF set pieces (astronauts, space travel, computers) dominated his work, later K. turned to series characters such as »Perry Rhodan« and »Atlan« and placed the fantasy elements in the foreground. "

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn , Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Volume 1. Heyne, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-01063-9 , pp. 401-403.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn: Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 232 f.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , pp. 612-614.
• Gerd Rottenecker, Thomas Tilsner: Between claim and triviality. An interview with Hanns Kneifel. In: The Golem. Yearbook for Fantastic Literature 1989, ed. by Harald Junker, Udo Klotz and Gerd Rottenecker. Freiberg 1990, ISSN  0937-5880 , pp. 19-34.
• Hermann Urbanek: Hanns Kneifel. In: Bibliographical lexicon of utopian-fantastic literature (loose-leaf collection). Corian Verlag , Meitingen (17th delivery, 1989).
• Rainer Schorm / Jörg Weigand (eds.): The stars called him. In memory of Hanns Kneifel , Murnau am Staffelsee (p.machinery Michael Haitel) 2017. ISBN 978-3-95765-084-9 . ISBN 3-95765-084-4 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Author Hanns Kneifel has died: Perry-Rhodan's Multitalent , Spiegel Online , March 11, 2012, accessed on March 14, 2018.
2. ↑ See Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 1991 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag Munich, ISBN 3-453-04471-1 , p. 719.
3. ^ Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 232 f.