Heiner Rank

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Heiner Rank , pseudonym AG Petermann (born December 11, 1931 in Nowawes ; † November 17, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German author of crime literature and science fiction .

Life

The trained industrial clerk worked as a tractor driver, was assistant director and dramaturgy at the Landestheater Parchim and guest director at the Volkstheater Halberstadt . From 1955 he was a freelance writer and lived in Kleinmachnow . In 1963/64 he was in prison (Oelsnitz prison camp) because he had spoken about the possibility of leaving the GDR.

He has published numerous detective novels, some under a pseudonym, written screenplays for television and wrote a highly acclaimed science fiction novel, The Powerlessness of the Almighty . Until 1988 he headed the Utopian Literature Working Group at the GDR Writers' Association (as successor to Günther Krupkat and predecessor of Klaus Frühauf ). Some of Rank's books have been translated into Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian, and Czech.

Detective novels

  • The premiere is canceled , 1957 (with Hans-Albert Pederzani and Gerhard Neumann under the joint pseudonym AG Petermann )
  • Murder on the airfield , 1958 (with Hans-Albert Pederzani and Gerhard Neumann under the community pseudonym AG Petermann)
  • Spook in the Sunshine Villa , 1958 (with Hans-Albert Pederzani and Gerhard Neumann under the community pseudonym AG Petermann)
  • Perjury on word of honor , 1959 (with Hans-Albert Pederzani and Gerhard Neumann under the community pseudonym AG Petermann)
  • The dogs no longer bark , 1959 (with Hans-Albert Pederzani and Gerhard Neumann under the community pseudonym AG Petermann)
  • Hexyl Smuggler , 1959
  • Car thieves , 1959
  • The green star , 1960 (with Gerhard Neumann under the community pseudonym Heiner Heindorf )
  • Museum robbery in Cairo , 1961 (with Gerhard Neumann under the community pseudonym Heiner Heindorf)
  • Export , 1961 (with Gerhard Neumann)
  • Counterfeit money , 1962 (with Gerhard Neumann)
  • Gunfire in the harbor , 1964
  • Fog night , yellow series 1967
  • The green ghost , 1968
  • Traumland model , 1970 (= blue light , issue 121)
  • The last witness , 1976 (FRG edition 1978)
  • The Bengal tiger , 1987
  • Golden Sunday , 1993

Science fiction

  • The powerlessness of the Almighty , novel, Das Neue Berlin 1973 (paperback edition by SF Utopia 1984)
  • Encounter with a bat , 1978, radio play for voice of the GDR , 44 min.
  • Beautiful Bella , short story, 1981 (1986)
  • Psycho-osmosis , narrative, 1985 (1991)

Works for film and funk

  • The premiere is canceled , 1955, radio play (for example with HA Pederzani and Gerhard Neumann under the community pseudonym "AG Petermann")
  • The dogs don't bark anymore , 1957, radio play, 67 min. (zs. with HA Pederzani and Gerhard Neumann under the community pseudonym "AG Petermann")
  • Spuk in Villa Sonnenschein , 1959, screenplay (director: Gerhard Klingenberg )
  • Water up to the neck , 1959, radio play, 43 min. (zs. with HA Pederzani and Gerhard Neumann under the community pseudonym "AG Petermann")
  • Murder on Monday , 1968, screenplay, DEFA , director: Hans Kratzert (with Eberhard Esche )
  • Nebelnacht , 1969, screenplay, DEFA, director: Helmut Nitzschke (with Peter Borgelt , Gunter Schoß , Hans-Peter Minetti )
  • Friday around midnight , 1973, screenplay for the series Polizeiruf 110 (director: Werner Röwekamp )
  • Allow me, I'm your murderer , 1979, radio play
  • Die Dorflinde , 1980, screenplay (with Rosel Klein)
  • Die Vogelmühle , 1987, screenplay (with Rosel Klein), DEFA

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Rank, Heiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petermann, AG (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of crime literature and science fiction
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Nowawes
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 2014
Place of death Berlin