Joachim Rennau
Joachim Heinrich Rennau (born May 31, 1919 in Berlin ; † 1993 ) was a German translator and author of novels that can be classified as trivial literature : for example, "Und Satan laughs" (1946), "Todesreiter" (1949).
His novels, which were published by Uta-Verlag , became best known . Here he wrote, among other things, under the pseudonym "Rolf Randall", the notebook and book novels about the farm boy Pete , who competes in the wild west with his "League of the Righteous" on the Salem ranch near the village of Somerset against the clumsy deputy sheriff Watson .
The first booklet of the series Pete - A magazine for the youth appeared with 32 pages on October 8, 1951 under the title "The Night Ghost". The first story as a book ("The Pete Book") appeared in 1953 under the title "The Rascals of Somerset". Various stories were also published as a mini-book series in the Pelikan-Tramp series . The novels developed into a downright cult among the youth of the 1950s, which even led to the establishment of over 980 Pete fractions in post-war Germany. The series of novels ran until 1959.
Rennau's novels about the western hero Billy Jenkins were published by Uta-Verlag from 1949, as well as around 250 novels about the western hero Tom Prox and many Old Jerry novels . The film poster painter and graphic artist Klaus Dill created the cover pictures for many of his novels .
In 1954 the science fiction novel "Women for Pleja", which Joachim Rennau wrote under the pseudonym James S. White , appeared as volume no. 9 in the booklet series Utopia-Großband of the Erich Pabel Verlag . The publisher, which initially rejected German authors for this series, was given the novel under the fictitious English original title "The Devil's Egg".
Quote
- “ What took root in my youth, fired the imagination and motivated my later work - it started with Karl May . "
Web links
- About the Pete series
- Literature by and about Joachim Rennau in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ sf-leihbuch.de , accessed on May 11, 2019.
- ↑ Klaus N. Frick in an interview with Rainer Eisfeld : How was it actually «back then» - in the 50s and early 60s? - About the beginnings of the PERRY RHODAN series and the two founding authors, in: Perry Rhodan report No. 532, pp. 3–6, in: Michelle Stern : The Hour of the Oracle, Perry Rhodan No. 3.020, Pabel-Moewig, Rastatt . 5th July 2019.
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| SURNAME | Rennau, Joachim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rennau, Joachim Heinrich (full name); Randall, Rolf (pseudonym); White, James S. (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1993 |