Joe Juhnke
Joe Juhnke (born April 11, 1925 in Koblenz ; † September 1, 2016 in Lahnstein ) was a German writer primarily of western novels.
Joe Juhnke lived in Koblenz until 1937, in Andernach from 1937 to 1951 and was a resident of Lahnstein since 1951. He was a trained restaurateur and businessman and ran the "Franzenhof", a hotel and eatery, for 15 years.
His writing career began in 1947 and lasted until 2009. During this time, he wrote under various pseudonyms, according to his own statements, around 1,000 novels, mostly westerns, but also horror novels, agent stories and mystical stories. The first works appeared in the rental book trade (Feldmann-Verlag), later as a booklet. He found his home as a writer at the Kelter-Verlag, where in 1983 he wrote alongside Dan Roberts (Mario Werder) for the short-lived series "Major Carson". The series, conceived as a competition series to Bastei's "Captain Concho", only reached 35 editions. Joe's favorite genre was always the German western, which he enriched with his novels.
Even today, reprints of his works are regularly published by Kelter-Verlag and have been translated into Dutch since 2007.
Pseudonyms
- Genre Westerns: Joe Juhnke, JE Shane, Bob Joe, John Montana
- Genre crime thriller: Ron Kimble, James West, Henry E. Scott
- Genre horror: Juhnke, Shane
Web links
- Literature by and about Joe Juhnke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Joe Juhnke on the homepage of the Lahnsteiner Altertumsverein
- Entry on Joe Juhnke in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Joe Juhnke in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on March 19, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Juhnke, Joe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shane, JE (pen name); Joe, Bob (pseudonym); Kimble, Ron (pseudonym); West, James (pen name); Scott, Henry E. (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 2016 |
| Place of death | Lahnstein |