Karsten Kruschel

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Karsten Kruschel (born December 10, 1959 in Havelberg ) is a German writer and publicist . He mainly publishes in the field of science fiction and was awarded the German Science Fiction Prize in 2010 and 2012 .

life and work

Kruschel grew up as the son of the writer Heinz Kruschel in Magdeburg , where he also gained stage experience as a cabaret artist. After an agricultural apprenticeship in Klein Wanzleben and a discontinued study of plant production in Halle (Saale) , he worked as an assistant nurse in a neurological clinic in Magdeburg. In 1984 he completed his teaching studies in Magdeburg with a thesis on science fiction literature in the GDR . After working as a teacher for German and history in Leipzig - Grünau and doing basic military service in Eilenburg and Dresden , he went to the Pedagogical University "Clara Zetkin" in Leipzig as a research assistant , where he started a thesis on GDR science fiction in 1991. Doctorate in literature (revised and supplemented by EDFC in 1995). He worked in Leipzig and Berlin as a project manager in an institute for educational reform and media education, for a long time as editor-in-chief of a construction magazine, as a public relations consultant and for a few years in various call centers, before he went freelance as an editor and author in 2010 and now works for the De Gruyter publishing house and other clients. He also pursues writing and theater projects, for example at the Theater der Junge Welt .

Kruschel has been writing prose since his childhood, later also essays and literary reviews. He took part in the Central Poetry Seminar of the GDR in Schwerin several times . After his first science fiction stories in 1979 in the magazine Neues Leben , his debut space leaps (1985) appeared in the booklet series Das neue Abenteuer . In 1989, the short story volume Das smaller Weltall , published by Das Neue Berlin, followed . His short stories Herrliche Zeiten (1999), Devil's Obligations (2012) and End of the Hunting Season on Orange (2010) were nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize ; the latter translated into Russian in 2011 .

Since 1981 Kruschel has published reviews of works in science fiction literature that appear in newspapers, magazines and anthologies ( Volksstimme Magdeburg, Leipziger Volkszeitung , Science Fiction Times , Das Heyne Science Fiction Jahr ) as well as articles and essays. He wrote a number of articles for the reference works The Science Fiction of the GDR. Authors and works , the bibliographical lexicon of utopian-fantastic literature , the work guide through the utopian-fantastic literature , the section on science fiction in the handbook for children's and young people's literature and several articles in the lexicon of science fiction literature since 1900 .

In 2009 the two-volume novel Vilm was published. The rain planet and Vilm. The natives at Wurdack-Verlag . The book was nominated for both the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize and the German Science Fiction Prize - which it won - as the best novel of the year. The internet portal phantastik-couch.de declared it “Book of the Month”, as did the 2011 successor Galdäa. The unbeaten war . Galdäa was also named “Fantastic Book of the Year 2011” in March 2012.

In 2010 he took part in the literary experiment Hinterland published by Karla Schmidt , an anthology published by Wurdack , for which 20 authors wrote science fiction stories based on music by David Bowie .

In 2013 he continued the successful Vilm novels with the independent novel Vilm. The thicket , which took 3rd place in both the German Science Fiction Prize and the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize .

Works

Standalone publications

  • Space leaps , narration (illustrated by Karl Fischer ), New Life , Berlin 1985.
  • The smaller universe , science fiction stories (illustrated by Dieter Heidenreich), Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-360-00245-7 .
  • Backlit screen , texts on media education, 1992 (with Ralf Hickethier).
  • Play worlds between ideal and warning images. Utopian and dystopian in the SF literature of the GDR in the eighties , non-fiction book, edfc, 1995, ISBN 3-924443-77-7 (2012 also as e-book)
  • Vilm. Der Regenplanet , Roman, Wurdack , 2009, ISBN 978-3-938065-36-5 (2012 also as an e-book)
  • Vilm. The natives , Roman, Wurdack , 2009, ISBN 978-3-938065-54-9 (2012 also as an e-book)
  • Galdea. The unbeaten war , Roman, Wurdack , 2011, ISBN 978-3-938065-72-3 (2012 also as an e-book)
  • Jumps in space, the smaller universe and other fantastic stories , EditionDigital 2012, ISBN 978-3-86394-385-1 .
  • Armageddon mon amour - Five visions of the end (with Michael Marrak , collection of novellas limited to 99 copies and signed, series Maldoror 2012.) Contains: Prayer for warheads - a lyrical prologue (Marrakech), The silence after the tone (Marrakech), black: Netz: Schwarz (Kruschel), Das Concaliom (Marrak), questioning techniques for an informative conversation with the frog princess (Kruschel), Quo vadis, Armageddon? (Marrakech)
  • Vilm. Das Dickicht , Roman, Wurdack , 2013, ISBN 978-3-938065-93-8 .
  • The universe according to Landau. Novel in Documents and Novellas , Wurdack, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95556-093-5 .

Short stories and short stories (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Jürgen Thomann: Galdäa. The unbeaten war , in: Andromeda Nachrichten, 42nd volume, issue 234, pp. 84f., SFCD, 2011.
  • Franz Rottensteiner : Galdäa. The unbeaten war , in: Quarber Merkur . Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy vol. 114, 2013, ISBN 978-3-934273-93-1 , pp. 266–268.
  • Gundula Sell: Galdea. The unbeaten war , in: The Science Fiction Year 2012 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2012, pp. 369–371 (online [1] )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karsten Kruschel. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 558.
  2. ↑ Nominations for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 2000
  3. ↑ Nominations for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 2011
  4. ↑ website of the Russian magazine ESLI, Moscow ( Memento of 12 November 2012 at the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Erik Simon and Olaf R. Spittel (eds.): The Science Fiction of the GDR. Authors and works . 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 .
  6. ^ Heinrich Wimmer (Ed.): Bibliographical Lexicon of Utopian-Fantastic Literature . Corian-Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-89048-000-4 .
  7. ↑ Franz Rottensteiner and Michael Koseler (eds.): Work guide through the utopian-fantastic literature . Corian-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-89048-800-5 .
  8. ↑ Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel and Thomas Kramer (eds.): Handbook for children's and youth literature . JB Metzler Verlag , 2006, ISBN 3-476-02177-7 .
  9. ↑ Christoph F. Lorenz (Ed.): Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature since 1900 . Peter Lang , 2017, ISBN 978-3-631-69915-7 .
  10. ↑ Nominations for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 2010
  11. ↑ Science Fiction Club Germany: DSFP 2010 - The winners and placements.
  12. ↑ Editorial of the Phantastik-Couch June 2011
  13. ↑ publisher's report
personal data
SURNAME Kruschel, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Havelberg