Jörg Weigand

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Jörg Ernst Weigand (born December 21, 1940 in Kelheim / Donau ) is a German writer and editor . He also published with Karla Weigand under the collective pseudonym Celine Noiret . More recently, Weigand has also emerged as a composer .

life and work

Jörg Weigand is the son of the chemist Johann Martin Ferdinand Weigand and the housewife Leopoldine Marie Weigand, b. Liedermann. He attended elementary school in Saal an der Donau and in Wuppertal , then grammar schools in Wuppertal and from 1952 in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he graduated from high school in 1960 . Weigand studied German , Romance studies and history at the University of Erlangen and at the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes as a scholarship holder of the French government. He then moved to the University of Würzburg and studied Sinology , Japanese Studies and Political Science . In 1969 he earned his doctorate in philosophy on the ancient Chinese military theorist Wei Liao . In 1971 he completed a traineeship at ZDF in Mainz . From 1973 to 1996 he worked as a correspondent for the ZDF studio in Bonn and lived in Wachtberg near Bonn . Today Weigand is based in Staufen im Breisgau with his second wife, the author Karla Weigand .

In addition to his work as a television journalist , Weigand dealt early on with the subject of trivial literature , especially with German-language science fiction . He published his own works in this genre, edited numerous relevant anthologies and acted as a critic .

Jörg Weigand is a member of the Humboldt Society and the Fantastic Society . In 2002 he received the German Fantasy Prize .

Weigand has put together a collection of field post issues of German literature (during World War II ), which has been shown as an exhibition in various locations since 2010. In his front reading: Reading material for and by soldiers of the German Wehrmacht in World War II (2010), he examined the various legal, editorial, military, qualitative and publishing aspects of this genre.

bibliography

Novels

together with Karla Weigand under the name Celine Noiret:

  • Haunted in the Cevennes. Hamburg 2006.
  • Deadly danger. Hamburg 2007.
  • When spirits take revenge. Hamburg 2007.
  • The black monastery. Hamburg 2008.
  • Chateau of Doom. Hamburg 2009.
  • Red like death. Hamburg 2009.
  • The black monk. Hamburg 2010.
  • Mosaic of horror . Hamburg 2012.
  • Trip to the ghost town . Hamburg: 2012.
Collections
  • The astronaut's dream. Bergisch Gladbach 1983, ISBN 3-404-22056-0 .
  • The disruptive factor and other stories from the reality of our future. The green row # 4. Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-926829-08-7 .
  • Stories on the edge of reality. First German Fantasy Club, Passau 1998, ISBN 3-932621-11-5 .
  • The red scent of blood. Six vampire tales. Schillinger, Freiburg i. Br. 2013, ISBN 978-3-89155-385-5 .
Short stories
  • Slime (1978)
  • Awning (1978)
  • The World of Doo (1979)
  • Own goal (1979)
  • End (1980)
  • A case for the animal welfare association (1980)
  • The Bird (1980)
  • Father of the Future (1980)
  • The Astronaut's Dream (1981)
  • Object of Worship (1981)
  • Bellinda Superstar (1981)
  • Always on the Ball (1981)
  • Pepe's World (1981)
  • Tourist Attraction (1981)
  • A piece of home and the consequences (1981)
  • Dreaming is Life (1982)
  • The Demonstration or Lessons for an Alien Guest on Fundamental Democratic Rights (1982)
  • The Night of Flashes of Light (1982)
  • News of the Day (1982)
  • The Showman (1982)
  • The Legend of Sadali (1983)
  • A Nice Little War (1983)
  • Site visit 1984 (1983)
  • Self-healing (1983)
  • We Children of Light (1983)
  • Press conference (1983)
  • Shira (1983)
  • The Secret of the Hakka (1983)
  • Ray of Light (1983)
  • The Hunter (1983)
  • The Disturbing Factor (1984)
  • Mademoiselle Toutou (1985)
  • The Wisdom Dungeon (1985)
  • Old Age (1986)
  • Death of a Hero (1986)
  • Reality (1986)
  • Contact attempt (1989)
  • A Real Man (1994)
  • Missionary Work (2002)
  • The Ladies and the Tramp (2006)
  • Revenge of the Fox Woman (2008)
  • Hurray, hurray - we're still alive! (2010)
Non-fiction
  • State and military in the ancient Chinese military treaty Wei Liao Tzu. Dissertation University of Würzburg, 1969. Also called: State and military in ancient China. Wehling, Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-88437-001-4 .
  • Pseudonyms - a lexicon: aliases of the authors of German-language narrative literature. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1991. 3rd improved and expanded edition 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6906-X .
  • Dreams on thick paper: the loan book after 1945 - a piece of book history. Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-7890-3866-0 .
  • The wide field of fantasy: Aspects of German-language entertainment literature: 111 essays from 28 years. Passau 1995, ISBN 3-924443-84-X .
  • Front reading. Reading material for and by soldiers of the German Wehrmacht in World War II. CW Niemeyer, Hameln 2010 ISBN 978-3-8271-8833-5 .
  • Small as the caterpillar, big as the cosmos. The dragon as an all-pervasive symbol in Chinese culture. Fantastic Library Wetzlar, Wetzlar 2019, Series of publications and materials from the Fantastic Library Wetzlar, Small Series, Volume 9.
  • with Rainer Schorm: The stars called him: In memory of Hanns Kneifel. p.machinery (AndroSF # 65), 2017, ISBN 978-3-95765-084-9 .
  • with Rainer Schorm: The utopian-fantastic loan book after 1945. Original editions and publication history. An inventory 1946-1976 , Lüneburg (Dieter von Reeken) 2019. ISBN 978-3-945807-47-7 . ISBN 3-945807-47-6
as editor
  • The Voice of the Wolf: Science Fiction Tales from France. Munich 1976.
  • The trivial imagination. Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1976.
  • Window flowers. Rosenheim 1977.
  • Protection of minors in the media - without censorship in a pluralistic society. Baden-Baden 1978 (published together with Rudolf Stefen ).
  • Exemplary morning. Sankt Augustin 1978.
  • Quasar 1. Bergisch Gladbach 1979.
  • The other side of the future. Dortmund 1980.
  • They are dreams. Munich 1980.
  • Anticipating tomorrow. Munich 1981.
  • Prisoners of Space and Other Science Fiction Stories. Menden / Sauerland 1982.
  • The smile on the edge. Bergisch Gladbach 1982.
  • Lao Tzu : wisdom. Munich 1982.
  • Wisdom from the Middle Kingdom. Munich 1982.
  • The dreams of Saturn. Wurzburg 1982.
  • Chinese paper cutting. Munich 1983.
  • The Lord of the Trees. Bergisch Gladbach 1983.
  • Confucius : Sayings and proverbs. Munich 1983.
  • Don't forget the wind. Bergisch Gladbach 1983.
  • The night of flashes of light and other science fiction stories. Menden / Sauerland 1984.
  • Death permit. Rastatt 1984.
  • In millennia. Bergisch Gladbach 1985.
  • Jesco von Puttkamer : Electronic brains, wormholes and world models. Rastatt 1985. 2nd edition 1987.
  • Look into the morning. Ravensburg 1986.
  • Germany utopia. Bastei Lübbe General series # 13020, 1986, ISBN 3-404-13020-0 .
  • Save us !. Bonn 1988.
  • The others are us. Bergisch Gladbach 1989.
  • The sweet scent of evil. Passau 1996.
  • Master of space and time. EDFC, 2000, ISBN 3-932621-28-X .
  • Risk 21: visions, hopes, fears. Asendorf 2002.
  • Walter Ernsting : My guest book. Vol. 1. The first years of science fiction in Germany. Passau 2003.
  • Franz Kurowski - the whole world as an adventure. Schnellbach 2008.
  • Fantastic Upper Rhine. Freiburg / Br. 2008.
  • Fantastic Upper Rhine II. Freiburg / Br. 2010.
  • Land of promise . Freiburg / Breisgau 2010.
  • Two angels of the night . Market Rettenbach 2011.
  • with Thomas Le Blanc: Invasion of the Gnurks. Wetzlar 2012.
Translations
  • Pierre Vial : 16 packets in the safe. Rüsselsheim 1968.

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personal data
SURNAME Weigand, Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weigand, Jörg Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelheim