Helmut Routschek

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Helmut Routschek (born September 25, 1934 in Zarch , Czechoslovakia ; † April 7, 2016 in Heidenau ) was a German writer and engineer who used the pseudonym Alexander Kröger for his literary works .

Life

Routschek was the second son of a family of miners and grew up in a village environment. After being expelled from the Sudetenland in 1946 , he attended school in Mühlhausen until he graduated from high school. After a pre-mining internship, he studied mining and mining damage science at the Bergakademie Freiberg from 1954 to 1959 , after which he was an assistant and did his doctorate in engineering.

After a two-year probationary period in various mining companies, he received the concession as a mine separator in 1964 and worked in this profession in the VEB Gaskombinat Schwarze Pump , Spreetal open-cast mine . After completing his postgraduate studies to become an engineer for data processing , he worked in the company as an expert in automation and underground gas storage and was in charge of research and production at the university, in the energy industry and in environmental protection.

Routschek was a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany and belonged to the main committee of the NDPD from 1972 to 1982. Most recently he was a member of the secretariat of the Cottbus district council of the NDPD. From July 1981 to 1990 he was a member of the Cottbus district assembly and at the same time deputy chairman of the council of the district for housing policy and housing industry (successor to Günter Batke ). Routschek was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1980.

In 1990 he was transferred to the construction department for federal buildings at the Brandenburg Regional Finance Directorate . Numerous specialist articles and a non-fiction book were created during this time and appeared under his real name, and he also held several patents.

Kröger was an honorary member of the board of the Brandenburg State Association in the Association of German Writers (part of ver.di ) and a member of the Friedrich Bödecker Circle .

Alexander Kröger was not only one of the most popular and most widely read German writers of scientific and fantastic literature in the GDR . Since 1969 there have been 33 novels (including revised new editions) and a short story volume for readers aged 15 and over, which are available in six languages ​​and have a circulation of 1.65 million copies. After 1990 there was no publisher for him. Therefore he founded the KRÖGER-Vertrieb with his wife Susanne Routschek in order to publish his works independently until 2008. Another 14 novels (including 5 revised new editions) and a volume of stories with a total print run of 40,000 were published in Kröger's Green Series . In 2008 the Projekt-Verlag Cornelius in Halle (Saale) published a complete edition of all of Kröger's novels in a revised new edition, which could not be completed due to the insolvency of the publisher.

The non-fiction book Das Sudelfass, an ordinary Stasi file, was published under his real name . It is Routschek's own file, completely in facsimile , with accompanying autobiographical text.

Helmut Routschek was married to his former classmate Susanne since 1956 and has a son and a daughter with her. He died at the age of 81.

Works

  • Seven fell from the sky , 1969
  • Antarctica 2020 , 1973
  • Expedition Mikro , 1976
  • The Crystal World of Robina Crux , 1977 (revised new version under the title Robina Crux , 2004)
  • The Martian Woman , 1980 (new edition 2003)
  • The cosmodrome in Bond crater , 1981
  • Energy for Centaur , 1983
  • The Spirit of Nasreddin Effendi , 1984 (revised version under the title The Spirit of Nasreddin , 2001)
  • Souvenir vom Atair , 1985 (revised new version together with others under the title Fundsache Venus , 1998)
  • The Angels in the Green Balls , 1986 (revised version under the title False Brothers , 2000)
  • The sinking of the Telesalt , 1989 (revised version under the title The Telesalt Mission , 2002)
  • Others , 1990 (revised new version together with souvenir from Atair under the title Fundsache Venus , 1998)
  • Missed on the Rio Tefé , 1995
  • The Sudelfaß - an ordinary Stasi file , 1996
  • Die Mücke Julia , 1996 (revised and expanded version from 2011)
  • Mimicry , 1996
  • The second life , 1998
  • Seeds of Heaven , 2000
  • The first attempt in 2001
  • Chimeras , 2002
  • Encounter in the Shadows , 2003
  • Robina's Zero Hour , 2004
  • Never return , 2009
  • Ego episodes by Alexander Kröger. True, serene and contemplative , 2012

Revised new editions at Projekt-Verlag Halle:

  • Centaur trilogy: Seven fell from the sky , The Cosmodrome in Bond Crater , Energy for Centaur (2008–2009)
  • Antarctica 2020 , 2009
  • Never return , 2009
  • Expedition Mikro , 2010
  • Mimicry , 2010
  • Missed on the Rio Tefé , 2010
  • The second life , 2011
  • The first attempt in 2011
  • The mosquito Julia , 2011
  • Seeds of Heaven , 2011
  • Encounter in the Shadows , 2012
  • Lost and found Venus , 2012
  • The Spirit of Nasreddin , 2013
  • The telesalt mission , 2013
  • False Brothers , 2014

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 267.
  • Hartmut Mechtel : Alexander Kröger. In: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , pp. 173-179.
  • Hartmut Mechtel: Kröger, Alexander . In: Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature since 1900. With a look at Eastern Europe , edited by Christoph F. Lorenz, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5 , pp. 393–398.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Routschek. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 576, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ↑ National-Zeitung of January 7, 1988.
  3. ↑ Who gave us great moments . In: Lausitzer Rundschau from 9./10. April 2016
personal data
SURNAME Routschek, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kröger, Alexander (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Zarch , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2016
Place of death Heidenau