Helmut Degner

Helmut Degner (born March 24, 1929 in Vienna , † December 2, 1996 in Munich ; pseudonym : Helmut Anders ) was an Austrian writer and translator .

Life

Helmut Degner was a local reporter for an Austrian newspaper until the early 1960s . From 1961 he worked as a lecturer at the Hamburg publishing house Rütten & Loening , and from 1963 as chief editor in Munich . In 1979 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . Degner last lived as a freelance writer in Munich.

Helmut Degner was the author of narrative works and also translated from English .

He was a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly and received, among other things, the sponsorship award of the Upper Austrian Culture Ring in 1954, the sponsorship award of the Munich Year of Literature in 1980 and an Austrian state grant for literature.

Works

• Gray green and maroon brown. Frankfurt am Main 1979.

Translations

• John F. Adams: Come, my heart, and let us murder , Bern [u. a.] 1972 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Joan Aiken : The Crystal Crow , Zurich 1974
• Margery Allingham : Murder in Black Dudley , Munich 1990
• Bill S. Ballinger : Die Totenshow , Bern [u. a.] 1972 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Albert Barker : Berlin orgies , Bern [a. a.] 1971 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Herbert E. Bates : Dulcima , Gütersloh 1957
• Stephen Becker : A covenant with death , Munich [u. a.] 1965
• Dorothy Bennett : The Torture , Bern [u. a.] 1971
• Robert Bloch : The seeds of evil , Munich 1966
• Max Born : My Life , Munich 1975
• Dee Brown : Bury my heart at the bend of the river , Hamburg 1972
• Art Buchwald : I never danced in the White House , Munich 1974
• Robert Chartham : How to make women happy , Bern [u. a.] 1967
• Michael Crichton : The intrigue , Bern [u. a.] 1970
• Guy Cullingford : Post mortem , Zurich 1977 (with Peter Naujack)
• Roy E. Davis : Bhagavad-Gita , Friedrichsdorf 1981
• Babs Hodges Deal : A Wall of Silence , Bern [u. a.] 1969 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Walt Disney : Davy Crockett , Hamburg 1957
• Douglas Enefer : Even rich widows have to die , Bern [u. a.] 1970 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Douglas Enefer: The company Mord en wholesale , Bern [u. a.] 1972 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Martin Fallon : The vultures , Bern [u. a.] 1969 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Martin Fallon: Key to Hell , Bern [u. a.] 1968 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Howard Fast : The 27th floor , Munich [u. a.] 1965
• George MacDonald Fraser : Flashman, Prince of Denmark , Hamburg 1972
• George MacDonald Fraser: Flashman, Hero of Freedom , Munich 1977
• Winston Graham : The long way to Arwenack , Munich 1971 (together with Herbert Schlüter)
• Henry Rider Haggard : Sie , Zurich 1970
• Donald Hamilton : The traitors , Bern [u. a.] 1969 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Welles Hangen : GDR - the uncomfortable neighbor , Munich 1967
• Jack Higgins : Baron in the Underworld , Bern [u. a.] 1982 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Julius Horwitz : Candles in the Storm , Munich [u. a.] 1965
• Fred Hoyle : The Black Cloud , Cologne [u. a.] 1958
• Richard A. Isay : Being gay , Munich [u. a.] 1990
• Stuart Kaminsky : Counted out , Munich 1989 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Ferenc Körmendi : The Sebes Conspiracy , Hamburg 1972
• Eberhard Kronhausen : Books from the poison cabinet , Bern [u. a.] 1969
• Robert Kyle : Scandal is not in short supply , Bern [u. a.] 1970 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu : Carmilla and four other eerie stories , Zurich 1968 (with Elisabeth Schnack )
• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: The Honorable Judge Harbottle , Zurich 1982 (together with Elisabeth Schnack)
• Lawrence Lipton : The Holy Barbarians , Düsseldorf 1960
• Walter Lord : Send them to the bottom of the sea , Bern [u. a.] 1968
• Doris Herold Lund : Eric , Munich 1976
• John Dann MacDonald : Hochspannung , Munich 1990 (under the name Helmut Anders, together with Lutz Bormann)
• Ross MacDonald : Blown through , Zurich 1970
• William Peter MacGivern : The golden coup , Munich 1968
• Donald MacKenzie : The lost loser , Bern [u. a.] 1969 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Donald MacKenzie: Anyone who dies once does not believe that Bern [u. a.] 1971 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Bruce Marshall : New Year's Eve in Edinburgh , Hamburg 1973
• Ralph Guy Martin : Lady Randolph Churchill , Constance
  • 1. Biography 1854-1896 , 1970
  • 2. The Dramatic Years, 1895–1921 , 1972
• JT McIntosh : The body was a boomerang , Bern [u. a.] 1971 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Golda Meir : My Life , Hamburg 1975 (together with Hans-Joachim Maass)
• Nicholas Monsarrat : Precious Hours , Hamburg [u. a.] 1956
• James L. Nusser : Skorpionenfeld , Düsseldorf 1959
• Marc Olden : Oni , Munich 1996
• Wayne D. Overholser : Battle for Swift River , Munich 1967 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Frank Parrish : On the glue , Munich 1991
• Richard North Patterson : The Measure of Guilt , Munich 1993 (together with Gabriele Burkhardt)
• Hugh Pentecost : Opportunity makes murderer , Bern [u. a.] 1969 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Sidney Petrie : Self-help through Autogenic , Berg am Starnberger See 1984
• Patrick Quentin : Family shame , Zurich 1969
• Simon Raven : Chriseis. in vampires. Anthology. Translated by Helmut Degner; Eva Luther (from the Russian) Fackel, Olten 1969, pp. 208-223
• Conrad Richter : Doña Ellen , Düsseldorf 1959
• Cornelius Ryan : The last fight , Munich [u. a.] 1966
• Howard Shaw : The crime of Giovanni Venturi , Hamburg 1961
• George Sims : Revenge in installments , Bern [u. a.] 1968 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Henry Slesar : Ruby Martinson , Zurich 1976
• Betty Smith : Blown Dreams , Gütersloh 1959
• Aaron Marc Stein : And always so helpful ... , Bern [u. a.] 1970 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Glendon Swarthout : Don't you think we're crying Bern [u. a.] 1971
• Vincent Teresa : My Life in the Mafia , Hamburg 1973
• Shabtai Teveth : Moshe Dayan , Hamburg 1973 (together with FW Fleck)
• Charles Wheeler Thayer : Guerillas and Partisans , Munich 1964
• John Toland : Battle of the Ardennes 1944 , Bern [u. a.] 1960
• Vampires. Anthology , Fackel, Olten 1969 (from English & Italian)
• Richard Unekis : There is no discount at risk , Bern [u. a.] 1969 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Peter Viertel : Fiesta brava , Munich 1965
• Salka Quarter : The Unteachable Heart , Hamburg [u. a.] 1970
• Robert Penn Warren : All wishes of the world , Gütersloh 1959
• Robert Penn Warren: Amantha , Gütersloh 1957
• Robert Penn Warren: The Johntown Cave , Gütersloh 1961
• Lionel White : The Night of Violence , Bern [u. a.] 1972 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Charles Williams : The Dollar Tree , Munich 1968
• Charles Williams: The Big Shot , Munich 1967
• Charles Williams: 100 miles fear , Munich 1967
• Sloan Wilson : Like a wild dream , Bern [u. a.] 1971
• Stanley Winchester : In those circles , Bern [u. a.] 1970
• Jade Snow Wong : A Chinese girl in Frisco , Salzburg 1954 (together with Doris Mühringer )
• Wade Wright: The bestseller was written by death , Bern [u. a.] 1969 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Wade Wright: No career over corpses , Bern [u. a.] 1970 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Wade Wright: murder once a day , Bern [u. a.] 1971 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Wade Wright: When murder is fashionable , Bern [u. a.] 1970 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Wade Wright: Those who state have more from dying , Bern [u. a.] 1969 (under the name Helmut Anders)
• Collier Young : The Todd files , Bern [u. a.] 1971 (under the name Helmut Anders)

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Degner in the catalog of the German National Library

supporting documents

1. ↑ again in the vampire anthology, see below Simon Raven
2. ↑ 10 vampire stories, including this one by Raven in the only publ. German version. The text is the 9th chapter of the entire novel Doctors wear scarlet. , first Anthony Blond , London 1960 and Simon & Schuster NY 1961
3. ↑ 10 stories, see also above Le Fanu, Carmilla, and Raven; Another translator, namely from the Russian, Eva Luther