Heinz Mielke (publicist)

Heinz Mielke (* 6. April 1923 in Berlin , † 25 June 2013 ) was a German non-fiction author , who in the GDR the subject of space travel devoted.

Life

Mielke studied astronomy and physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1953 to 1956 he was a research assistant at the Archenhold observatory in Berlin-Treptow. In 1956, his first book, The Path to Space, was published and in the same year he began to work as a freelance academic journalist and specialist writer and expanded his activities to include radio, film and television. For many years Mielke was Vice President of the German Astronautical Society and Secretary of the Astronomy Section at the Presidium of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge .

Mielke has written 18 German-language books with a total print run of 400,000 copies. Some works were published in Hungarian and Russian. In particular, his lexicon space travel - space research was considered a standard work.

Publications

• The way into space - facts a. Problems of space flight ; 1956
• Artificial satellites, space rockets - rocket navigation ; 1960
• Scouts in space. Series: New technology easy to understand ; 1961
• Company Luna ; 1961
• To new horizons ; 1967
• The way to the moon ; 1969
• Lexicon space travel ; 1970
• Sun god and star fire ; 1975
• Space flight technology ; 1974
• All about space travel ; 1979
• Space travel today ; 1984

literature

• Habricht, Ute; Schmaling, Uwe: There is only one Mielke - GDR space travel journalist turned 90. In: Raumfahrt Concret , issue 77, issue 2/2013, pp. 18-19 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Mielke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Heinz Mielke (publicist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Works by and about Heinz Mielke at Open Library