Karl von Wetzky

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Karl von Wetzky (Czech spelling Karel Vrchovecký ; born December 31, 1935 in Troppau , Czechoslovak Republic ; died March 6, 2001 in Philadelphia , USA ) was a German-Czech journalist, writer and translator.

Life

Von Wetzky worked as a German of origin in Czechoslovakia, initially as a dispatcher, miner and did military service. In the 1960s he became a newspaper editor, worked for radio and television and was finally director of the “Sokolovo” cinema in Prague. In 1976 he published the novel Úder přijde z mlhy (“The blow comes out of the fog”) in Czech , a story about a counterattack by German troops on the Western Front at the end of World War II . He also wrote three military history books. In 1978 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he settled in Wuppertal and mainly worked for radio. He published a number of science fiction short stories in anthologies edited by Wolfgang Jeschke . With the exception of The Acceleration of the Process (1987), all of these appeared under the author's name of Karl Wrchowetzky . He also translated Czech science fiction stories into German for a series of international science fiction edited by Jeschke.

In 1994 von Wetzky's German-language debut novel Gojele appeared - or: a Christian boy's Jewish adventure after the Scho'a period was over . It deals with an episode from the life of Wetzkys when at the end of the war he and his mother were not sent to the assembly camp for Germans to be resettled in Weidenau due to a bureaucratic oversight, but to Weidenitz to a assembly camp for Eastern European Jews who were preparing to leave for Palestine . The novel portrays the young German protagonist's difficulties in adapting in a completely new, Hebrew-speaking environment. In 1999 von Wetzky was a recipient of the Nuremberg Authors' Scholarship .

Von Wetzky last lived near Bonn and died of heart failure in 2001 while studying in the USA at the age of 65.

bibliography

novel

as Vrchovecký:

  • Úder přijde z mlhy. Press photo, Prague 1976.

as Karl von Wetzky:

  • Gojele - or: a Christian boy's Jewish adventure after the Sho'a period came to an end. Morgenbuch, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-371-00388-4 .
Non-fiction
  • Záhadné zbraně hrozí. Albatros, Prague 1975.
  • Hrozba z nebe: Malé dějiny vzdušné války. Albatros, Prague 1977.
  • Lehčí než vzduch: kapitoly z malých dějin vzduchoplavby. Panorama, Prague 1979.
Collections
  • The best doctor jokes in the world. Bechtermünz, Eltville am Rhein 1991, ISBN 3-927117-73-0 .
  • The best marriage jokes in the world. Bechtermünz, Eltville am Rhein 1991, ISBN 3-927117-74-9 .
  • The best legal jokes in the world. Bechtermünz, Eltville am Rhein 1991, ISBN 3-927117-76-5 .
  • The dirtiest jokes in the world. Bechtermünz, Eltville am Rhein 1991, ISBN 3-927117-77-3 .
Short stories
  • Take the treasures and leave us! In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Heyne Science Fiction Magazin, # 3. Heyne SF&F # 3888, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30811-5 .
  • Tomorrow the box will be brought. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 20. Heyne SF&F # 3995, 1983, ISBN 3-453-30931-6 .
  • To Babylon, to Babylon! In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 21. Heyne SF&F # 4041, 1984, ISBN 3-453-30983-9 .
  • ... and then they all sing the hymn. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Venice 2. Heyne SF&F # 4199, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31174-4 .
  • Speeding up the process. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): L as in Liquidator. Heyne SF&F # 4410, 1987, ISBN 3-453-00419-1 .
Translations

Czech science fiction stories translated by Wetzky in the anthology series with international science fiction edited by Wolfgang Jeschke bei Heyne:

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Healing Confusion , a review by Gojele - or: a Christian boy's Jewish adventure after the Scho'a period was over by Marianne Schmidt in Neues Deutschland on November 25, 1994, accessed on April 12, 2020.
  2. ^ Entry by Karl von Wetzky on Lyrikwelt.de ( Memento from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Wetzky, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vrchovecký, Karel (alternative spelling); Wrchowetzky, Karl (alternative spelling); Wrochowetzky, Karl (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Czech journalist, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Opava , Czechoslovak Republic
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2001
Place of death Philadelphia , USA