Horst Hübner (writer)
Horst Weymar Hübner (born August 12, 1936 in Gaildorf ; † February 6, 2009 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was a German writer of magazine novels, journalist, translator and editor.
Life
Hübner grew up in Heilbronn , Großerlach and Mainhardt . After graduating from high school, he became a volunteer at Heilbronner Voice and studied journalism for a few semesters at the Free University of Berlin . During his time as a volunteer, he conducted interviews with Yehudi Menuhin , Yul Brynner , Audie Murphy , Nikita Khrushchev and Walter Häussermann , some of which he was able to sell to magazines. In the fall of 1959 he started a 16-month trip around the world, which took him several months to the South Pacific and which he reported in the weekly magazine Overseas Weekly of the US soldiers' newspaper Stars and Stripes . At the beginning of 1961 he became editor for the Western section at Bastei Verlag . From 1965 to 1972, with a short interruption, he worked as a permanent editor , author , lecturer and technical production manager at Wolfgang-Marken-Verlag in Cologne . From 1973 to 1985 he wrote notebooks for the Bastei and Marken publishers. After working as a translator for Bastei Verlag in 1986, he worked for a specialist magazine in Cologne until 1996. In Mohlberg publishing since 2005 editions of his novels of the series appear time ball and EARTH 2000 . Hübner lived in Bergisch Gladbach until his death.
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From 1960 to 1985, Hübner wrote over 500 magazine novels in the genres of westerns, crime novels, adventure, science fiction, horror and doctor novels. As an editor, he was also responsible for magazine novel series such as Rocky Steel , Bastei Wildwest-Roman, Westmann, Zeitkugel and ERDE 2000 . His best-known pseudonyms for Bastei and Marken were Ross Kincaid, Ringo Clark and P. Eisenhuth. Other single pseudonyms are Penn Fleming Webster, Jake Ross and Carter Flynn ( Mac Kinsey ), Rita Wallner, Knut Jansen and Benito Martinez. Huebner novels were also published under collective pseudonyms such as Ralph Forell, Norman Thackery ( Gordon Black , with Wolfgang Rahn) and Steve Cooper. In Pabel publishing a Sheriff Western appeared under the pseudonym AC Morgan.
Web links
- Best known pseudonym of Horst Huebner: Norman Thackery in the catalog of the German National Library
- Booklet novel after Hübner at Zauberspiegel online
- Horst Huebner's life story
- Interview about the series Zeitkugel and ERDE 2000
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huebner, Horst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hübner, Horst Weymar (full name); Clark, Ringo (pseudonym); Kincaid, Ross (pseudonym); Eisenhuth, P. (pseudonym); Thackery, Norman (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author of magazine novels, journalist, translator and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaildorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2009 |
| Place of death | Bergisch Gladbach |