Hans Wolf Sommer

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Hans Wolf Sommer (* 1939 in Cologne ; † 1996 ) was a German author of science fiction and horror , primarily of magazine novels . He also worked as a translator.

Life

Working as a real estate agent in Cologne for years , Sommer turned his hobby, the fantasy , into his main job after a company bankruptcy . In 1967 he published the fanzine "Robot" together with Frank Rainer Scheck and Heinz J. Galle . At the time he was working for the Science Fiction Times . His first novel for the Utopia series was rejected by the editor on the grounds that the novel was too high . He tried again several years later. The novel Insurance with Difficulties was bought by Zauberkreis and published in 1970 as part of the Science Fiction series. He used HW Springer as a pseudonym, which he later used again for his 1999 moon station publications.

From the beginning of the 1970s he wrote fantastic booklet literature under various pseudonyms for series such as Gespenster-Krimi , Silber Schusel-Krimi and Damona King , but also worked for crime series such as Jerry Cotton . Sommer, who died of stomach cancer, lived temporarily in Niederehe and most recently in Nörvenich .

Hans Wolf Sommer used a variety of pseudonyms. These included the personal pseudonyms HW Springer , Gunther Herbst , Vernon Graves and the collective pseudonyms Frederic Collins , Frank deLorca , Brian Elliot , Robert Craven , Robert Lamont and Marcos Mongo .

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

SF Science Fiction (booklet novels, as HW Springer)
  • 98 Insurance with Difficulties (1970)
  • 111 The Yesterday (1971)
  • 116 Rescue of a Sergeant (1971)
  • 168 The old men of Osiris (1976)
  • 180 The Sleeping Earth (1977)
Ghost thriller (booklet novels)
  • 155 The Atoll of Horror (1976, as Frank deLorca)
  • 161 The Diamond of Evil (1976, as Frederic Collins)
  • 164 The Demon Clan (1976, as Frederic Collins)
  • 167 The Devil's Screenplay (1976, as Frederic Collins)
  • 169 The Statue of Death (1976, as Frederic Collins)
  • 173 The League of Immortals (1977, as Frederic Collins)
  • 177 The Infernal Painting (1977, as Frederic Collins)
  • 182 The Ghost Race (1977, as Frederic Collins)
  • 184 The Tree of Death (1977, as Frederic Collins)
  • 186 The Vampire Prison (1977, as Frederic Collins)
  • 191 Walter Nelson's Second Self (1977, as Frank deLorca)
  • 194 The Werewolf Hunter (1977, as Frank deLorca)
  • 199 Monster Bay (1977, as Frederic Collins)
  • 212 Satan Came to the Pop Concert (1977, as Frederic Collins)
  • 220 The Beach Witch (1977, as Brian Elliot)
  • 237 The Monster (1978, as Frederic Collins)
  • 437 The Haunted House on Arthur Street (1982, as Vernon Graves)
  • 535 The Stone Idol (1983, as Vernon Graves)
  • 543 General of the Wolves (1984, as Vernon Graves)
  • 564 The Djinn (1984, as Vernon Graves)
  • 568 Horror Mania (1984, as Vernon Graves)
  • 572 When the Lizard Brood Wakes Up (1984, as Vernon Graves)
  • 576 Curse of the Sea (1984, as Vernon Graves)
  • 580 Lair of Evil (1984, as Vernon Graves)
  • 584 The Den of Demons (1984, as Vernon Graves)
Professor Zamorra (notebooks, as Robert Lamont)
  • 061 The Witch Mountain (1976)
  • 063 The Guardian of Evil (1976)
  • 068 The Ghost Night (1977)
  • 069 Judgment of the Dead (1977)
  • 071 Panic in the Spirit Cave (1977)
  • 074 Mercenaries of the Devil (1977)
  • 078 In the spirit realm of the Vikings (1977)
  • 085 The Fire Idol (1977)
  • 090 Satan's doppelganger (1977)
  • 095 Yama, the god of the dead (1978)
  • 100 The School of Demons (1978)
  • 110 The ghost grotto (1978)
  • 120 The Hour of the Vampires (1979)
  • 122 At Night When the Messenger of Death Comes ... (1979)
  • 150 The Vampire's Coffin (1980)
Silver horror thriller (booklet novels, sub-series GOOD , as Marcos Mongo)
  • 118 The Zombie Den (1976)
  • 135 Azathoth's Blind Eyes (1977)
  • 149 The Spirits from the Eastside Clinic (1977)
Moon station 1999 (tie-in novels for the television series Moon Base Alpha 1 , as HW Springer, 1978)
  • 07 The Andromeda riddle
  • 08 The legacy of robots
  • 09 The Eternals of Luna
  • 10 Esper invasion
The Terranauten (notebook novels, as Michael Roberts)
  • 4 Terranaut Revolt (1979)
  • 5 the fleet of drivers (1979)
  • 33 The Battle for Aqua (1980)
  • 34 The Renegade (1980)
  • 39 The Gravity Trap (1980)
  • 80 Mountain of Heaven (1981)
  • 81 Driver Pirates (1981)
  • 82 The Mistletoe Syndicate (1981)
Ritter Roland (notebook novels, as Gunther Herbst)
  • 06 The Split Crown (1982)
  • 11 Peasant Uprising (1982)
  • 12 the cast-out daughter of the duke (1982)
  • 14 The Bloody Countess (1982)
  • 19 the oath of vengeance (1982)
  • 20 The Hunt for the Black Stone (1982)
  • 22 The Blood Beast (1982)
  • 27 The Duel for the Count's Daughter (1983)
Damona King (notebooks, as Vernon Graves, 1983/1984)
  • 03 Trapped in the monster swamp
  • 04 Return of the army of the dead
  • 06 The daughters of immortality
  • 09 The demon trial (1/3)
  • 10 Ferry to the Underworld (2/3)
  • 11 Pharaoh's slave girl (3/3)
  • 19 The call of the soul catcher
  • 25 Under the spell of Satan's daughter
  • 39 The horror cabinet
  • 48 Under the spell of the bog devil
  • 49 In the realm of horror
  • 59 Invasion from the micro world
  • 60 The city of thirteen towers
  • 89 The devil rats of Brahmapur (1/2)
  • 90 In The Rat King's Labyrinth (2/2)
  • 104 In the realm of the fire demon (1/2)
  • 105 Revenge of the Fire Demon (2/2)
The Witcher - The Fantastic Adventures of Robert Craven (booklet, as Robert Craven)
Short stories
  • The total war. In: Hans Joachim Alpers, Ronald M. Hahn (Hrsg.): Science Fiction from Germany. Fischer paperback (Fischer Orbit # 43), 1974, ISBN 3-436-01987-9 .
  • as Hans Wolf: privilege. In: uncredited (ed.): Future stories?. Weltkreis, 1976, ISBN 3-88142-169-6 . Also in: The knee of the Rhine at sunrise. New Life ( Compass Library # 257), 1979.
  • Our immortal president. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 9. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3574), 1978, ISBN 3-453-30469-1 .
  • Rescuing a sergeant. In: Thomas Le Blanc (ed.): The others. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3650), 1979, ISBN 3-453-30563-9 .
  • Terminus. In: Michael Nagula (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 90. Ullstein (Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31031), 1981, ISBN 3-548-31031-1 .
  • The essence of all things. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): Visions of tomorrow. Ullstein (Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31096), 1985, ISBN 3-548-31096-6 .
  • Love your robot. In: Michael Kubiak (Ed.): Contacts: New erotic SF stories. Bastei Lübbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22079), 1985, ISBN 3-404-22079-X .

In addition to the publications mentioned, Sommer wrote some novels for the crime series Jerry Cotton , short crime novels for illustrated magazines, SF stories for the magazines Anabis , SF Times and Nibelungen , and translated, mainly for Bastei Lübbe Verlag .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Bärtle: Grusel, Grüfte, Groschenhefte: the German horror magazine novel from 1968 to 2008: a series overview for the 40th anniversary . 1st edition. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-4043-2 , p. 185 (408 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ http://www.krimilexikon.de/cotton.htm
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Hans Wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Springer, HW (pseudonym); Collins, Frederic (pseudonym); Craven, Robert (pen name); deLorca, Frank (pseudonym); Elliot, Brian (pen name); Graves, Vernon (pseudonym); Herbst, Gunther (pseudonym); Lamont, Robert (pseudonym); Mongo, Marcos (pseudonym); Roberts, Michael (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of science fiction and horror, primarily of magazine novels
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 1996