Jan Mayen (novels)
Jan Mayen was a science fiction adventure booklet novel series by Paul Alfred Müller , who wrote under the pseudonym Lok Myler . The booklets were published from 1935 to 1938 by A. Bergmann Verlag in Leipzig .
Story and plot
From 1933 Müller wrote the SF-themed adventure series Sun Koh . Since this was set to 150 issues from the start, it was time in 1935 to conceive a new series. Since Sun Koh's success was unbroken towards the end of the series, only a thematically similar series came into question.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, however, the conditions for the publication of entertainment literature had changed significantly. All books and notebooks were affected by the preliminary censorship by the Reichsschrifttumskammer , which, in addition to social and ideological tasks, also successfully tried to contain English and American entertainment literature. As a result, series with American heroes were heavily banned. In order to circumvent such a ban on the series, the death of the black sidekick into the plot of Sun Koh was conceived.
In the case of Jan Mayen, the publisher and author avoided this problem from the start. The main hero was - unlike Sun Koh, who had mysterious Maya ancestors - a German adventurer, whose father Rick Hatmann was a millionaire. After leaving his parents' house, he now fought evil all over the world and was on the move with a nuclear-powered airplane - always preparing for day X, on which he freed Greenland from the eternal ice after 120 volumes and there the "fabulous dream land Thule " (Blurb) should erect.
notebooks
- At the end of the world
- The fight begins
- Riddles in Australia
- The trace of gold
- The glistening band
- The jungle castle
- Escape from the swamp
- The artificial sun
- The trail in the north
- Rays from space
- Mirror in space
- The nuclear missile
- Adventurous interlude
- The singing pat
- The moon fool
- Inventor in hypnosis
- The diamond miracle
- The eternal magnet
- The atomic ball
- The dream hat
- The sun riddle
- Ride through hell
- Sender of oblivion
- The golden coat
- Underground world
- Atomic laboratory in the rock
- The fire emitter
- Ten years later
- Diamond murder
- The avenger
- The saving force
- The eating ray
- Fifty million volts
- Base in the north
- Decaying matter
- The overbacillus
- The math puzzle
- The steel brain
- The stone ellipse
- The infrared glasses
- The treasure hunter
- Sven Horre returns home
- Ultrasound crime
- Warmth flowing upwards
- The heat accumulator
- Invisible fire
- Adventure in the Himalayas
- Bacteria of the primeval world
- The plant wizard
- The sleeper
- Attack on the crane river
- Artificial gold
- The lookalike
- Violan, the over-metal
- Building material of the future
- 5000 atmospheres stolen
- The stratospheric pilots
- The north work
- The slave stones
- Attack on the Congo
- The sea in Africa
- The rain professor
- The glass ball
- Tillyt
- Alarm over Europe
- Attack on the Gulf Stream
- The new ice age is looming
- Technical soap bubbles
- The magic hat
- The invisible
- The bearing core
- The lost memory
- Artificial giants
- Flaming iron
- The over-weapon
- The floating continents
- The Radium Gorge
- 100,000 km above the earth
- Danger from space
- The jitters
- The King of Thule
- Prisoner of the dead
- Sol tub. E.
- Lord of the world
- Mystery in Singapore
- The mysterious disease
- The wild rure
- The death ray
- The golden curve
- Shot through the night
- The clairvoyant
- Sharks of the Timor Sea
- Fire in the steppe
- The witch
- The wrong face
- The green death
- Suicide wanted continuously
- Burning rock
- Journey into the primeval world
- The enchanted house
- The deep sea diving ball
- Prisoners of the deep sea
- The explosion
- The explosive
- The Radiation Bastion
- Nuclear fire on Greenland
- Artificial diamonds
- Night over the stream
- Suspended gravity
- The mechanical garden
- Rift in the South Seas
- Stop with hydrogen
- The fog men
- The trap
- Light over the north pole
- Great power Thule
- The radiation mirror
- Guests from space
- The sixth continent
- Sun over Thule
Between 1949 and 1950, Utopia Verlag published the series Utopia Zukunftsromane - Jan Mayen - The Lord of Atomic Power . There the old booklets were reissued in unchanged order under the author's name Freder van Holk , a pseudonym of Müller. The now dusty plot, however, was not successful again. The Utopia science fiction ended after just 9 issues.
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn , Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature 2. Heyne, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-01064-7 , pp. 730 f., 1157.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke: Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , pp. 1174-1177.
- Heinz J. Galle: Sun Koh. The heir to Atlantis and other German supermen. SSI Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-9521172-0-X .
- Paul Alfred Müller: Sun Koh. The legacy of Atlantis. Contains booklets 1–5 of the first edition. Edited and provided with comments and a historical appendix by Markus R. Bauer and Rolf A. Schmidt. SSI Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-9521172-2-6 .
- Heinz J. Galle: Popular Reading. Groschenhefte, dime novels and penny dreadfuls from the years 1850 to 1950. Exhibition catalog. (= Small writings from the University and City Library of Cologne. 10). University and City Library, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-931596-19-2 .
- Heinz J. Galle: Folk books and book novels. Forays into popular entertainment literature for over 100 years. DvR, Lüneburg 2005–2006.
- Volume 1: The boom after 1945. 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3232-2 .
- Volume 2: From the German Empire to the “Third Reich” - 40 years of popular reading material. 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4314-6 .