Hubert Horstmann

Hubert Horstmann (born December 23, 1937 in Mosbach ) is a German philosopher and science fiction author.

life and work

Horstmann, the son of a forester, first completed an apprenticeship as a gardener, made up his Abitur at the ABF from 1955 to 1958 and then studied philosophy and mathematics in Berlin from 1958 to 1963 . He received his doctorate in 1972 on positivism , completed his habilitation in 1982 and in the 1980s was a professor of philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . He published numerous philosophical writings and translated from Russian.

In 1996 he gave the Akademie Verlag Berlin theodicy of Leibniz out.

Horstmann made his debut as a fiction author in 1966 with the novel The Voice of Infinity . His second novel The Riddles of the Silver Moon caused a sensation . Horstmann's description of a non-human, aggressive civilization on Saturn's moon Titan shattered the anthropocentric worldview that had prevailed in science fiction literature in the GDR and was “staged as a psychological chamber play”.

bibliography

Fiction

The voice of infinity. Science fiction. Verlag Das Neue Berlin , Yellow Series , Berlin 1966.
The riddle of the silver moon. Utopian novel. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1971.
Christian Franz Paullini 1645 - 1712. Historical novel. BKP Verlag Zweibrücken 2011. ISBN 978-3-9813424-5-1

Non-fiction

Physicalism as philosophy and worldview. A contribution to the examination of the positivistic way of thinking. Dissertation, Berlin 1972.
Physicalism as a model of the positivist way of thinking (= on the critique of bourgeois ideology, vol. 26). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1973.
Studies on the metaphysical and dialectical-materialistic way of thinking (= writings on philosophy and its history, vol. 5). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977.
with Walter Hollitscher : Matter - Movement - Cosmic Development . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983.
On the problem of the relationship between objectivity and partiality in philosophy, individual sciences and everyday thinking. Habilitation thesis, Berlin 1982.
with Walter Hollitscher: the view of nature and worldview . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985.

literature

Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 210.
Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 563.
Ekkehard Redlin: Hubert Horstmann. 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. 156–158.
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 Hubert Horstmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Hubert Horstmann in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
Works by and about Hubert Horstmann at Open Library

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Karsten Kruschel , in: Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer (eds.): Handbook for children's and youth literature. SBZ / GDR from 1945 to 1990 . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-02177-7 , p. 1120.

personal data
SURNAME	Horstmann, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher and science fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH	December 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mosbach

[1] Cf. Karsten Kruschel , in: Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer (eds.): Handbook for children's and youth literature. SBZ / GDR from 1945 to 1990 . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-02177-7 , p. 1120.