Horst Hoffmann (publicist)
Horst Hoffmann (* 1927 ; † 2005 ) was a German non-fiction author and publicist who devoted himself to the subject of space travel. During the Second World War he was an air force helper, then a tank soldier and then a prisoner of war. He studied legal philosophy with Arthur Baumgarten and newspaper studies and general journalism with Emil Dovifat in Berlin . In 1960 he was one of the founding members of the German Astronautical Society . Numerous books, films, radio features and numerous articles in domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines have been written by him.
Publications
- The Soyuz Apollo Test Project Urania Publishing House, 1975
- cosmic secret. Test case SDI - myths and scenarios . (= nl specifically 82). 2nd edition, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1989
- Women in space travel (with Jürgen Stark), Verlag RID 1997
- The Germans in Space: on the history of cosmos research in the GDR , (with a foreword by Sigmund Jähn and with the collaboration of Matthias Gründer and Andreas Schütz) Verlag Edition Ost, 1998
- Sigmund Jähn, the flying Vogtlander , (authorized biography, with a foreword by Thomas Reiter and with the collaboration of Matthias Gründer and Andreas Schütz); Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 1999
- Lexicon of manned space travel , (with Matthias Gründer and Karl-Heinz Ingenhaag), 2001
- Women in space: visions and missions in space travel , (with a foreword by Claudie Haigneré with the assistance of Jacqueline Myrrhe), Verlag Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf, 2002
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/horst-hoffmann/634518.html
- ↑ Horst Hoffmann: Die Deutschen im Weltraum, Edition Ost, 1998, ISBN 3-932180-49-6 , page 3, section: The author
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2005 |