Hans Joachim Alpers

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Hans Joachim Alpers (born July 14, 1943 in Wesermünde ; † February 16, 2011 in Niebüll ) was a German publisher and writer . Under his real name, but also under the pseudonyms Jürgen Andreas, Thorn Forrester , Gregory Kern, Mischa Morrison, PT Vieton and Jörn de Vries , he wrote several science fiction and fantasy novels. Works written together with Ronald M. Hahn appeared under the pseudonym Daniel Herbst .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a ship mechanic , Hans Joachim Alpers studied engineering in Bremen and later studied mechanical engineering , politics and education at the University of Hamburg . From 1969 to 1972 he was responsible for the selection and editing of the science fiction stories published in the popular science journal X Magazin , and from 1970 to 1994 he was the publisher of Quarber Merkur . From 1978 he was editor and editor of science fiction anthologies in various publishers (including Droemer Knaur and Moewig ). In addition, he was editor-in-chief and publisher of the " Science Fiction Times ", editor of "Comet" (1977/1978 together with Ronald M. Hahn and Werner Fuchs ), editor of book reviews for the games magazine "Wunderwelten" (since 1989), editor and co-publisher of SF magazine “Parsek” (1990, together with Gerd Maximovic ), editor and translator (from English) of various anthologies and literary agent .

Under a pseudonym he wrote numerous short stories, radio plays , non-fiction books and short stories. Together with Ronald M. Hahn , he wrote more than a dozen crime novels for young people as a shared pseudonym Daniel Herbst . In 1983, together with Werner Fuchs and Ulrich Kiesow, he founded the Fantasy Productions (FanPro) publisher and worked with them on the first edition of the role-playing game Das Schwarze Auge for Schmidt Spiele as well as the German translation of the American system Dungeons & Dragons for Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). He has received the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize several times for his writing and publishing work .

In 2005 he was honored together with Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn, Jörg Martin Munsonius and Hermann Urbanek for the publication of the Lexikon der Fantasy-Literatur from the First German Fantasy Club (edfc) with the German Fantasy Prize , which all four came from the city of Passau Years endowed and awarded within the framework of the “Congress of Imagination”.

Hans Joachim Alpers lived in Hamburg and North Friesland. His North Frisian farmhouse near the coast housed his large collection of pre-war German science fiction. He died of liver cancer .

Posthumously, Alpers was awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Special Prize in 2012 for long-standing outstanding achievements in the German-speaking SF for his life's work.

bibliography

Shadowrun

List of Shadowrun novels

  1. The Torn Land , 1994, ISBN 3-453-07756-3 .
  2. The eyes of the riggers , 1994, ISBN 3-453-07757-1 .
  3. The gray eminence , 1995, ISBN 3-453-07971-X .

The black eye (DSA)

The pirates of the South Sea

  1. Behind the iron mask , 1996, ISBN 3-453-10958-9 .
  2. Escape from Ghurenia , 1997, ISBN 3-453-10975-9 .
  3. The Last Duel , 1997, ISBN 3-453-11945-2 .

Rhiana the Amazon

  1. Der Flammenbund , 2003, ISBN 3-453-87537-0 .
  2. Conspiracy in Havena , 2004, ISBN 3-492-29104-X .
  3. Captives of the Cyclops Islands , 2006, ISBN 3-492-29106-6 .
  4. Battle for Talania , 2006, ISBN 3-492-29107-4 .

Youth novels

Space Rover

(with Ronald M. Hahn )

  • Spaceship Out of Control , 1985 (anthology)
  • The children's spaceship , 1977
  • Planet of the Ruffians , 1977
  • Wreck from Infinity , 1977
  • Space vagabonds , 1986 (anthology)
  • Among the nomads of space , 1977
  • The mysterious swimming island , 1978
  • Ring of Thirty Worlds , 1979

Eco gang

  • The Chocolate Conspiracy , 1992
  • Action 'Dicker Hund' , 1992
  • North Sea crime scene , 1992
  • The Garbage Mafia , 1993
  • The mountain is sliding , 1993
  • The Secret of the Empty Books , 1993
  • Murder in the Forest , 1993
  • Dangerous transports , 1994
  • SOS for a whale , 1995
  • On the hot track , 1996
  • Poison to Order , 1996
  • The pirate cave , 1997
  • Oil rig , a secret , 1997
  • Imported Madness , 1998

Children's books

see Daniel Herbst

As editor

Science fiction almanac

Copernicus

Analogous

Science fiction yearbook

Highlights

Science fiction anthology

(with Werner Fuchs)

New edition of the first two volumes as a paperback series as a library of the best SF stories

Without series

Non-fiction

  • Documentation of science fiction from 1926 in words and pictures (1978, with Werner Fuchs and Ronald M. Hahn)
  • Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature (two-volume edition 1980, ISBN 3-453-01063-9 , ISBN 3-453-010647 , expanded and updated new edition 1987 and 1988, with Werner Fuchs, RM Hahn and Wolfgang Jeschke ) ISBN 3-453- 02453-2
  • Reclam's Science Fiction Guide (1982, with Werner Fuchs and RM Hahn)
  • HP Lovecraft - the poet of horror , 1983
  • Isaac Asimov - the Thousand Year Planner , 1983 (with Harald Pusch )
  • Lexicon of horror literature (1999, with Werner Fuchs and RM Hahn)
  • Lexicon of Fantasy Literature , (2005, with Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Jörg Martin Munsonius and Hermann Urbanek)

literature

  • Timo Rouget: Alpers, Hans-Joachim . In: Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature since 1900. With a View of Eastern Europe , edited by Christoph F. Lorenz, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2016, pp. 187–192. ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Franz Rottensteiner in Quarber Merkur 112, p. 6. ISBN 978-3-934273-91-7
  2. ↑ http://fictionfantasy.de/hans-joachim-alpers
  3. ↑ GND 109007786
  4. ^ Notice of death, accessed on Feb. 18, 2011
  5. ^ Obituary by Helmut Krohne , BuchMarkt.de from February 19, 2011, accessed on February 1, 2020.
  6. ↑ Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis: Prize Winner 2012. Accessed on May 10, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Alpers, Hans Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreas, Jürgen (pseudonym); Forrester, Thorn (pseudonym); Herbst, Daniel (pseudonym); Kern, Gregory (pseudonym); Morrison, Mischa (pseudonym); Vieton, PT (pseudonym); Vries, Jörn de (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesermünde
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2011
Place of death Niebüll