Karl-Heinz Küster (Author)

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Karl-Heinz Küster (* 1925 in Leipzig ; † before 1992 ) was a German author and journalist .

Küster was born in 1925 as the son of a bookseller . After graduating from school, he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk . In the GDR he worked as an editor for technology at the Leipzig trade fair office.

He made his first literary attempts in the immediate post-war years. From 1950 he intensified his journalistic and writing activities. He wrote a number of popular technical reports and essays, as well as several adventure stories. His first crime novel Spione am Laufsteg appeared in 1958. It was published as issue 139 in the Roman newspaper .

In 1983 Küster took part on the IX. Writers' Congress of the German Democratic Republic. His literary estate is located in the literary archive of the City Library of Leipzig .

Works

  • Spies on the catwalk , Greifenverlag , Rudolstadt 1959
  • Servant of the Devil , New Life Publishing House , Berlin 1959
  • Sold names , publishing house of the Ministry of the Interior, Berlin-Wilhelmsruh 1961
  • Junkyard , Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1963
  • Take part or die! , Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1965
  • The ghost of Black Rose Castle , Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1973

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The text is taken from the blurb of the " Roman-Zeitung " No. 184, Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin , license no .: 410 73.64 [East Berlin].
  2. ↑ IX. Writers' Congress of the German Democratic Republic [31. May-2. June 1983]: Speech and discussion, Writers' Association of the German Democratic Republic, 1984, p. 9 [1]
  3. ↑ Library Service , Volume 26, Issues 7–9, German Library Association , 1992, p. 1374 [2]
personal data
SURNAME Küster, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH before 1992