Joachim Koerber

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Joachim Körber (born November 4, 1958 in Karlsruhe ) is a German translator , publisher , editor and writer .

translator

In 1980, Joachim Körber as a freelance translator made independently and translated initially mainly science-fiction novels. He later worked as a regular translator of Stephen King's works for a while . Furthermore, Körber u. a. Works by Gilbert Adair , Neal Stephenson , Anne Rice , Tad Williams , Thomas Eidson, Peter Straub , Dean Koontz , Ray Bradbury , Dan Simmons , Ian McGuire , JG Ballard and Max Brooks .

Publisher and editor

Following the American model, Körber founded the small publisher Edition Phantasia in 1984 together with Uli Kohnle and Thomas Bürk, who left in 1993 , in which limited, numbered, mostly illustrated and autographed collector's editions from the fields of science fiction , horror and fantasy -Literature appear. Uli Kohnle left the publishing house in 2009, and Joachim Körber has been the sole owner of Edition Phantasia ever since

From 1984 to 2017 he was solely responsible for editing the Bibliographical Lexicon of Utopian-Fantastic Literature in Corian-Verlag .

writer

In 1998 Körber published his first novel Wolf , which deals with psi phenomena in the form of a thriller . Also in 1998 his short story Der Untergang des Abendlandes came out, for which he received the Fantastik Prize in 1999 for the best German short story of the year. Many essays and reviews by Körber appeared in the year books Das Science Fiction Jahr . In his companion book to the American hit series The Walking Dead , which was published in 2014 and describes the struggle of a group of survivors after a worldwide zombie apocalypse , Joachim Körber seriously dealt with the philosophical problems that the “ undead ” theme and its treatment in the Series and in the underlying comic albums ( The Walking Dead ) by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore . In addition, Körber published non-fiction books on the work of Dan Brown and the comic series Tintin . His essays on fantasy were collected in 2010 in the volume The Well-Known Stranger .

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Individual evidence

  1. Joachim Körber: The Philosophy in The Walking Dead. Wiley-VCH Verlag , Weinheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-527-50805-1 .