Hans Gamber

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Hans Gamber (born August 4, 1944 in Landstuhl ) is a German journalist, writer and publisher.

biography

The trained journalist worked from 1969 as an editor at Heyne Verlag in the detective novels division, also edited the magazine he had designed "Shock. Magazine for exclusive nightmares" and in 1979 switched to Moewig Verlag , where he published humorous literature. In the 1980s, Gamber wrote detective novels and thrillers under the collective pseudonym Christopher Barr. He also wrote for the comedy series Sketchup and edited various literary columns in the magazines pardon and Playboy . For a while he was also head of the humor department at Bunter .

The parodies

Gamber achieved widespread fame with his magazine parodies, which he published in his own publishing houses (Maya- and Saga-Verlag) in the late 1980s. The Perry-Rhodan parody R. Hodan appeared: “The Galactic Cucumber” and numerous parodies of magazines that were deceptively real to their originals in terms of language, imagery and layout. A selection:

While the parodied publishers and editors calmly took Gamer's sometimes rough jokes, Albert Uderzo sued him . The Asterix co-inventor got right in the second instance before the Munich Higher Regional Court, which classified the Asterix parodies as plagiarism. Litigation costs, attorney's fees, claims for damages and losses resulting from the sales bans added up to almost a million marks, which resulted in the publisher's bankruptcy.

Although Gamber had repeatedly announced that he would go to the ECJ , it apparently never came to that. The Munich Higher Regional Court can only find out that both the Alcolix and Isterix proceedings were settled after the final BGH referral back, or by settling the main issue and settlement. Peter Mühlbauer wrote about the exit at Telepolis : "Uderzo is silent about how exactly the comparisons looked - and Gamer's trail is lost between the small Palatinate town of Landstuhl and a men's dormitory in Munich."

Pseudonym Christopher Barr

Hans Gamber and the writer Claus Cornelius Fischer , who at that time still called himself Claus Fischer, hid behind this pseudonym . They made their debut in 1981 with "Soldato the Killer" (publisher: Droemer Knaur) and tried to keep the promise of "international thriller flair" in the following novels.

Bibliography (selection)

Under the pseudonym Christopher Barr

  • 1981 Soldato, the Killer (Droemer Knaur 4920) OA
  • 1981 Too beautiful to die for (Droemer Knaur 4923) OA
  • 1986 Mago, Schneekluth Verlag, HC OA
  • 1991 Hello, small planet, Schneekluth Verlag, HC OA

Books as Hans Gamber
From 1969 to 1971 as editor of the German selected volumes of Ellery Queens crime magazine at Heyne Verlag:

  • Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin / [41: Selected Vol.] 28. [New crime stories full of concentrated suspense by Trevor Black et al. a.]. 1971
  • Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin / 40: Selection Vol. 27.1971
  • Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin / 39: Selection Vol. 26th 1971
  • Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin / 38: Selection Vol. 25th 1970
  • Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin / 37: Selection Vol. 24.1970
  • Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin / 36: Selected Volume 23. [10 × Thrill and. High tension with new stories by Jim Thompson a. a.]. 1970
  • Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin / 34: Selection Vol. 21. [11 × goosebumps and high tension with new stories by Robert L. Fish u. a.]. 1970
  • Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin / 32: Selection Vol. 19. [11 nifty new stories] 1969
  • Ellery Queen's Kriminal-Magazin / 31: Selection Vol. 18. [17 nifty new stories] 1969
  • 1983 (as publisher) Das große Wahnwitz-Lexikon, Munich: Droemer Knaur HC
  • 1983 (as publisher) What makes Bavaria so Bavarian, Munich: Knaur 26082
  • 1983 (as publisher) Graffiti - What is on German walls. Munich: Heyne scene 1
  • 1984 The Golf and the seven Chryslers - a mini book on the great madness, Munich: Knaur
  • 1984 Last greetings from Bad Leichenhall - a mini book on the great madness, Munich: Knaur
  • 1984 Quakers and other frogs - a mini book on the great madness, Munich: Knaur
  • 1984 (as publisher) The White Book of Black Humor, Munich: Heyne 6351
  • 1984 (with Wolfgang J. Fuchs) Do you speak Sponti - The last from the scene, Munich: Knaur 2137
  • 1984 (together with Karl Hoche, as ed.) Why should a woman (a man) have no relationship, Munich: Heyne: 6322
  • 1985 The big book of crazy games, Munich:
  • 1986 Günther Wallrauff: Entirely among us, Munich: Schneekluth (parody of Günter Wallraff's book Ganz unten )

As editor

  • 1987 (as publisher) Cheeky sayings for every day, Rastatt: Moewig 4862
  • 1987 (as publisher) Sprüche vom Örtchen, Rastatt: Moewig 4870
  • 1988 (as publisher) From the wastepaper basket of our celebrities, Rastatt: Moewig
  • 1989 (as ed.) The hysterical adventures of Isterix: Jubiläumspersiflage, Munich: Saga-Verlag
  • 1990–1991 (as publisher) Irre Cool 1–7, Munich: Saga-Verlag

Translations

  • 1968 Bloch, Robert: Amok: Kriminalroman / Dt. Translated by Hans Gamber. - German First publ. Munich: Heyne, 1306 Original: Terror
  • 1970 Short, Luke: The second sheriff: Western-Roman / Transl. By Hans Gamber, Munich: Heyne-Buch.Nr.2226 = Western. Original: Misery Lode
  • 1971 Mallory T. Knight: Dracula's daughter, translated by Hans Gamber, Heyne Allg 886, original: Dracutwig
  • 1972 Joe Millard: For a few dollars more. Western Roman / Translated by Hans Gamber, Heyne 2302 = Western Original: For a few dollars more
  • 1979 (as publisher) Perry Rhodan-Magazin 1, Pabel 11980,
  • 1979 (as ed.) Perry Rhodan-Magazin 2, Pabel 21979

watch TV

  • 1984ff (collaboration) Sketchup (comedy series, 28 min each, ARD) collaboration on various episodes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perrypedia [1]
  2. ^ Literature Lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate Archived copy ( Memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel of March 9, 1993 (PDF) [2]
  4. ↑ a b Peter Mühlbauer : How Uderzo seized a comic book publisher into a homeless shelter. Telepolis from October 26, 2009 [3]
  5. ↑ Az. 29 U 6196/90 and 29 U 6128/90
  6. ^ Lexicon of German crime authors [4]
  7. ^ Lexicon of German crime authors / Hans Gamber [5]
personal data
SURNAME Gamber, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barr, Christopher (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Landstuhl