Horst Müller (Author)

Horst Müller (born December 26, 1923 in Gleißen , Oststernberg district , today Poland ; † May 9, 2005 in Hoyerswerda ) was a German science fiction writer and librarian .

Life

After returning from prisoner-of-war camp, Müller graduated from high school in 1947, then worked initially as a teacher and later as head of the Hoyerswerda district library. In the meantime he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR . In 1968 he founded the youth club “Utopia” in his library, which existed until 1986, making it the longest-running science fiction fan club in the GDR. From 1983 Müller was a disability pensioner due to illness.

Müller initially published newspaper articles and poems. In 1960 he made his debut with the science fiction novel Signals from the Moon , followed by the sequel course Ganymede in 1962 . The latter was characterized primarily by criticism of obsession with power and the cult of personality and was considered a settlement with the Stalin era . After that, Müller published two more science fiction stories exclusively in Sorbian .

After a long break due to illness, his youth book Peter goes crazy was published in 1998 in a small publishing house.

Works

• Signals from the moon , Domowina-Verlag , Bautzen , 1960
• Course Ganymed Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen, 1962
• Peter goes crazy or what if , Edition Avalon, Berlin, 1998

literature

• Karlheinz Steinmüller : Horst Müller. 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. 209-211.
• Hans-Peter Neumann: The large illustrated bibliography of science fiction in the GDR. Shayol, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-926126-11-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Horst Müller in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Obituary at epilog.de ( Memento from December 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )