Jürgen Grasmück

Jürgen Grasmück (born January 23, 1940 in Hanau , Hesse ; † August 7, 2007 in Altenstadt ) was a German author of horror and science fiction novels.

He wrote under the pseudonyms Albert C. Bowles , Bert Floorman , JA Garett , JA Gorman , Jay Grams , Jürgen Grasse , JA Grouft , Jeff Hammon , Ron Kelly , Rolf Murat , Steve D. Rock , Dan Shocker , Owen L. Todd and Henri Vadim .

life and work

Grasmück made his debut in 1956 with the short story Atomic War on Mars in Andromeda Magazine (No. 69) by Walter Ernsting . In 1957 his first novel Die Macht im Kosmos was published by Bewin. A number of loan books followed until the decline in the loan book business and the rise of novel booklets forced him to reorient himself. He wrote dime novel in the magic circle publishing and in the series Ad Astra and Rex Corda . He has also written Gerry Thook crime novels and a western for Rolf Mauerhardt Verlag.

Already in his first books he combined science fiction with horror elements. The Frankenstein theme was particularly striking in the two-part loan book testament of horror and fear goes around at Bewin 1962. In his best-known series Larry Brent and Macabros , which he wrote under the pseudonym Dan Shocker , he also accommodated numerous SF elements, with for macabros he also increasingly introduced fantasy elements into the series cosmos. Under the same pseudonym he also wrote the Burg Frankenstein tension novels for Zauberkreis Verlag and for the first few years wrote their silver horror crime series alone.

In the mid-1980s, some radio plays by his novel heroes Larry Brent and Macabros appeared, and in 2005 episodes of the Frankenstein volumes were added. In 1984/85 the Zauberkreis-Verlag, in which Larry Brent and Macabros appeared, was taken over by Pabel-Moewig. There was an internal restructuring of the publishing house and both series were discontinued. In 1994 Larry Brent was briefly continued by the newly founded Zaubermond Verlag. Blitz-Verlag later took over the series. Both Larry Brent and Macabros are currently being reissued by Blitz-Verlag , with two of the earlier booklet novels being re-published in a paperback in a revised version. The Larry Brent series is being continued there with new novels written by third-party authors (including Manfred Weinland, Alfred Wallon, Martin Eisele , Dario Vandis). Macabros has also been continued at Zaubermond Verlag since 2007 .

From the mid-1980s, Grasmück and his wife started their own bookseller. Grasmück later founded a publishing house.

Jürgen Grasmück died on August 7, 2007 at the age of 67 from the effects of progressive muscle weakness, which made him dependent on a wheelchair from the age of 15.

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 176, sv Jay Grams .
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , pp. 493-495, sv Jay Grams .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Grasmück in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Grasmück in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Bibliography Jürgen Grasmück on zauberspiegel-online.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
• Shocker's Welten , article by Horst Hermann von Allwörden about Larry Brent and Macabros as a series of magazines (1968–1986), accessed on March 4, 2018
• Interview about Jürgen Grasmück with his daughter Constanze Grasmück-Sehnert , accessed on March 4, 2018
• The development of the magazine horror novel from 1968–2001 by Walter Hofstetter on gruselromane.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
• Obituaries on gruselromane.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
• Amazing Tales with Dan Shocker radio play reviews , accessed on March 4, 2018