Small youth series
The small youth series was a popular series of books aimed at young people with stories from the genres of crime , adventure and science fiction in the GDR . There appeared new publications and translations of both contemporary authors as well as classics.
Brief edition history
The series was published every six months from 1950 to 1965 by Verlag Kultur & Progress Berlin , in the format 16 x 11.5 cm. The single issue cost a constant 35 pfennigs. The envelope was provided with a colored illustration. Initially started with a circulation of 90,000 copies, the series sold 191,000 copies per issue in 1955, and the scarcity of paper limited further increases in circulation. From 1966, the series was replaced by the series Krimi Abenteuer Phantastik .
List 1950–1965
Issue no. | title | author |
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Issue 1950 | The scary shaman | Rustam Agishev |
Issue 1950 | Inside the earth | Vadim Okhotnikov |
Issue 1950 | The altitude record I | Vladimir Nemtsov |
Issue 1950 | The altitude record II | Vladimir Nemtsov |
Issue 1950 | The case in the blue bay | Anatoly Wachow |
Issue 1951 | The vanished island | Leonid Platov |
Issue 1951 | The secret of the karst cave | Vadim Okhotnikov |
Issue 1951 | Galtama's rescue | Gavriil Kungurow / Alexei Kerdoda / Boris Gorbatow |
Issue 1951 | On the butu | Vladimir Arsenyev |
Issue 1951 | On the bright trail | Nikolai Toman |
Issue 1951 | The fireball | Vladimir Nemtsov |
Issue 1951 | The Nur-i-Descht observatory | Ivan Yefremov |
Issue 1951 | Mr. Clerk miscalculated I | Mikhail Maklyarsky |
Issue 1951 | Mr. Clerk has miscalculated II | Mikhail Maklyarsky |
Issue 1951 | The sinking of the "eagles" | Konstantin Solotovsky |
Issue 01/52 | The white horn | Ivan Yefremov |
Issue 02/52 | The raging shark | Konstantin Solotovsky |
Issue 03/52 | In the catacombs of Taiyuan I | Nikolai Shpanov |
Issue 04/52 | In the Catacombs of Taiyuan II | Nikolai Shpanov |
Issue 05/52 | The commandant of the bird island | Sergei Dikowski |
Issue 06/52 | The tenth planet | Sergei Belyayev |
Issue 07/52 | The treasure in Baranov Bay | Vasily Boldyrev |
Issue 08/52 | The mysterious limousine | Victor Saparin |
Issue 01/53 | The end of the "Sago-Maru" | Sergei Dikowski |
Issue 02/53 | Hoar frost on palm trees I | Georgi Gurevich |
Issue 03/53 | Hoar frost on palm trees II | Georgi Gurevich |
Issue 04/53 | Polar aviator | Mikhail Vodopyanov |
Issue 05/53 | Kassanda's escape | I. Valentinov |
Issue 06/53 | The swallow designer | Boris Djacenko |
Issue 07/53 | Kinuli | Wera Tschaplina |
Issue 08/53 | On the train to Saratov | Nikolai Toman |
Issue 09/53 | The letter with the rooster feathers | Hua Schan |
Issue 10/53 | The frightened lightning | Vadim Okhotnikov |
Issue 11/53 | The lost million | Mikhail Vodopyanov |
Issue 12/53 | Black gold I | Vladimir Nemtsov |
Issue 13/53 | Black gold II | Vladimir Nemtsov |
Issue 14/53 | Black gold III | Vladimir Nemtsov |
Issue 01/54 | On the trail of the sable | N. Ustinovich |
Issue 02/54 | The secret of the old castle | Yuri Dolgushin |
Issue 03/54 | Riots in the pampas | Carl Stephenson |
Issue 04/54 | Red wine for Almansa | Jan Griwa |
Issue 05/54 | The Andean Wolf | Rudolf H. Daumann |
Issue 06/54 | The old gold digger | Jack London |
Issue 07/54 | Trapped in the Arctic Ocean | Alex Wedding |
Issue 08/54 | The shepherd Costas | Boris Djacenko |
Issue 09/54 | The black galley | Wilhelm Raabe |
Issue 10/54 | UKL does not answer | Boris Gorbatov |
Issue 11/54 | The Canterville Ghost | Oscar Wilde |
Issue 12/54 | Shadow of the past | Ivan Yefremov |
Issue 13/54 | Death on the lighthouse | Sergei Dikowski |
Issue 14/54 | The night on the whale | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 15/54 | The robbers of Raue | Rudolf H. Daumann |
Issue 16/54 | black and white | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 17/54 | The sinking of the island of Keli | Alexander Morozov |
Issue 18/54 | Bush driving I | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 19/54 | Bushwalking II | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 20/54 | Alarm in the salt mountain | Rudolf H. Daumann |
Issue 21/54 | Conqueror of Eternal Storms | W. Sytin |
Issue 01/55 | The rescue | Yuri Rytcheu |
Issue 02/55 | The scary shaman | Rustam Agishev |
Issue 03/55 | The treasure chamber in the devil's caves I | L. Tissow / Juri Nagibin |
Issue 04/55 | The treasure chamber in the devil's caves II | L. Tissow / Juri Nagibin |
Issue 05/55 | The escape to Prague | Karl Veken |
Issue 06/55 | Tiger tiger | Rudyard Kipling |
Issue 07/55 | The island of the damned | Mario Cellaris |
Issue 08/55 | The police are looking for Atze Müller | Karl Veken |
Issue 09/55 | Dubrowski | Alexander Pushkin |
Issue 10/55 | Hunting at the border I | Alexander Avdejenko |
Issue 11/55 | Hunting at the border II | Alexander Avdejenko |
Issue 12/55 | The Dakota's death ride | Rudolf H. Daumann |
Issue 13/55 | The water of Mona III | Ronnie Paige |
Issue 14/55 | Deer catching in the salt moor | Ivan Aramilev |
Issue 15/55 | Under the sign of the red "H" | Berthold E. Philipp |
Issue 16/55 | Kaas hunting dance | Rudyard Kipling |
Issue 17/55 | The secret message | Leonid Panteleev |
Issue 18/55 | Three boys and a cossack | Siegfried Dietrich |
Issue 19/55 | In the last minute | Alexei Novikov-Priboi |
Issue 20/55 | The decisive night | Herbert Eggert |
Issue 21/55 | The white poodle | Alexander Kuprin |
Issue 22/55 | The slave | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 23/55 | Who was driving the gray car? | Lev Samoylov-Wirin |
Issue 24/55 | The wounded commander | Arkadi Gaidar |
Special issue 1955 | Head in the noose | Emile Robert |
Special issue 1955 | SOS from the Himalayas | William Harvey |
Special issue 1955 | The vanished island | Leonid Platov |
Special issue 1955 | The treasure in Baranov Bay | Vasily Boldyrev |
Special issue 1955 | Inside the earth | Vadim Okhotnikov |
Special issue 1955 | The white horn | Ivan Yefremov |
Special issue 1955 | The mysterious limousine | Victor Saparin |
Issue 01/56 | Jazede's kidnapping | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 02/56 | The gold beetle | Edgar Allan Poe |
Issue 03/56 | Between red and white | Dmitry Furmanov |
Issue 04/56 | Fire in laboratory I. | Heinz Vieweg |
Issue 05/56 | Karl, hold on! I. | Béla Balázs |
Issue 06/56 | Karl, hold on! II | Béla Balázs |
Issue 07/56 | The white mare | Dmitri Mamin-Sibirjak |
Issue 08/56 | Counterfeit Graff | Richard Gross |
Issue 09/56 | The suspicious house | Vladimir Popov |
Issue 10/56 | Be brave, Kawanga! I. | Marianne Monestier |
Issue 11/56 | Be brave, Kawanga! II | Marianne Monestier |
Issue 12/56 | The last topsail | Ivan Yefremov |
Issue 13/56 | Stan Britton scandal | Dieter Schubert |
Issue 14/56 | Atoll fakaofu | Ivan Yefremov |
Issue 15/56 | Shots in the prairie | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 16/56 | Pirates | Anatoly Agronovsky |
Issue 17/56 | Judge Black | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 18/56 | A thousand dollars for a Chinese | Herbert Reckefuss |
Issue 19/56 | In secret mission | Vitaly Trenew |
Issue 20/56 | The golden idol | Georg Stephan |
Issue 21/56 | The junk | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 22/56 | The Hunt for the Ghost I | Nikolai Toman |
Issue 23/56 | The Hunt for the Ghost II | Nikolai Toman |
Issue 24/56 | From the Apennines to the Andes | Edmondo de Amicis |
Issue 01/57 | Stopover in Hong Kong | Victor-Udo Krause |
Issue 02/57 | Save Aiwam! | Tikhon Syomushkin |
Issue 03/57 | Mississippi slave hunters | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 04/57 | Northern lights over palm trees | Günther Krupkat |
Issue 05/57 | The bear who thought he was a dog | Charles DG Roberts |
Issue 06/57 | The bugbear | Nikolai Leskov |
Issue 07/57 | Gold on board | Friedrich Gerstäcker / John Russell |
Issue 08/57 | We are looking for "Italia" | Wolfgang Boehm |
Issue 09/57 | Golden Heart | Adolf Branald |
Issue 10/57 | The "wolf gang" I | D. Chrabrowizki / W. Wedejew |
Issue 11/57 | The "Wolf Gang" II | D. Chrabrowizki / W. Wedejew |
Issue 12/57 | With rifle and arrow | Adolf Branald |
Issue 13/57 | Pirate Captain Paul Jones | Theodor Mügge |
Issue 14/57 | Rivals in the Arctic | Rolf Guddat |
Issue 15/57 | Death must wait | Grigory Fedoseev |
Issue 16/57 | The pavilion in the dunes | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Issue 17/57 | Trail on the precipice | Nikolai Shpanov |
Issue 18/57 | Alarm on the Atlantic | Miroslaw Zulawski |
Issue 19/57 | The white death | Jack London |
Issue 20/57 | Operation "Sable" | Nikolai Koroteev |
Issue 21/57 | Secret about Clarence Brant I | Bret Harte |
Issue 22/57 | Secret of Clarence Brant II | Bret Harte |
Issue 23/57 | In the network of the "Blue Cockatoo" | Rolf Guddat |
Issue 24/57 | The devil in the mast | Peter Wipp |
Issue 01/58 | In Ibrahim Mamur's power | Karl May |
Issue 02/58 | The sailors of the "Princess Anna" | Vitaly Trenew |
Issue 03/58 | The prairie at Jacinto | Charles Sealsfield |
Issue 04/58 | Towards the stars | Vladimir Savchenko |
Issue 05/58 | The devil's mill | Erich Koehler |
Issue 06/58 | The Paradise Islands | Adolf Branald |
Issue 07/58 | Red roses I | Lev Ovalov |
Issue 08/58 | Red roses II | Lev Ovalov |
Issue 09/58 | Mursuk's revenge | Vitali Bianki |
Issue 10/58 | The creepy farm | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 11/58 | Guests from Space I | Georgi Martynov |
Issue 12/58 | Guests from Space II | Georgi Martynov |
Issue 13/58 | The private lottery | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 14/58 | The conspirators of Königsgasse | Boris Djacenko |
Issue 15/58 | Murder on the airfield | AG Petermann |
Issue 16/58 | Who is Nixi? | G. Grischin / A. Normet |
Issue 17/58 | The jungle fighter I | Nils Holmberg |
Issue 18/58 | The jungle fighter II | Nils Holmberg |
Issue 19/58 | Border patrol missing | Alexander Puntschonok |
Issue 20/58 | The elephant driver | Oleg Erberg |
Issue 21/58 | Escape from the fortress | Rolf Guddat |
Issue 22/58 | The silk front | Hans von Oettingen |
Issue 23/58 | The stolen dinars | Lew Scheinin |
Issue 24/58 | The way through the moor | Rolf Guddat |
Issue 01/59 | The Khmer chain | Boris Djacenko |
Issue 02/59 | PX 17 fell from the sky | Walter Karl Schweickert |
Issue 03/59 | Order for Samuel Tarn | Peter Wipp |
Issue 04/59 | Favorite at the start | Herbert Joseph |
Issue 05/59 | Secret society "Blue Swords" | Lev Ovalov |
Issue 06/59 | The Mexican agave | Lev Ovalov |
Issue 07/59 | Son of water | Janka Mawr |
Issue 08/59 | I am guilty | Hans Müncheberg / Peter Wipp |
Issue 09/59 | The revenge of the Kabunauri I | Helena Bobińska |
Issue 10/59 | The revenge of the Kabunauri II | Helena Bobinska |
Issue 11/59 | The girl from the Black Lake | Klaus Heilbock |
Issue 12/59 | Intrigue over Suez | Peter Wipp |
Issue 13/59 | The loner | Vitali Bianki |
Issue 14/59 | In the noose | Herbert Roch |
Issue 15/59 | The hexyl smugglers | Heiner Heindorf (Gerhard Neumann, Heiner Rank) |
Issue 16/59 | The traitor | Nikolai Chukovsky |
Issue 17/59 | James Cook, the circumnavigator I | Nikolai Chukovsky |
Issue 18/59 | James Cook, the circumnavigator II | Nikolai Chukovsky |
Issue 19/59 | Disaster in the canyon | W. Kisselev |
Issue 20/59 | The blood brothers | Nils Holmberg |
Issue 21/59 | The secret of the asteroid 117-03 I. | Boris Fradkin |
Issue 22/59 | The secret of the asteroid 117-03 II | Boris Fradkin |
Issue 23/59 | Tracer across the stream | Vladimir Bogomolov |
Issue 24/59 | The gold of the mandarin | Vladimir Obruchev |
Issue 01/60 | The green car | Alexander Kosachinsky |
Issue 02/60 | Cross-examining scouts | Valentin Kitain / Valery Osipov |
Issue 03/60 | Attack on Sainte-Assise | Jean Laffitte |
Issue 04/60 | The last letter | Valery Osipov |
Issue 05/60 | Son of Navaho I. | James Willard Schultz |
Issue 06/60 | Son of Navaho II | James Willard Schultz |
Issue 07/60 | Animal trapping in Ceylon | Heinz Randow |
Issue 08/60 | Man in the cable husband | Rolf Guddat |
Issue 09/60 | The refugees I | Jack Lindsay |
Issue 10/60 | The refugees II | Jack Lindsay |
Issue 11/60 | Final sprint | W. Belozerkowski |
Issue 12/60 | Borbass and the Rod of God | Jurij Brězan |
Issue 13/60 | Start without returning home | Otto Bonhoff |
Issue 14/60 | In the whirlpool of the Kasyr | Vladimir Chivilichin |
Issue 15/60 | Stronger than the ocean | W. Golzew / N. Karew |
Issue 16/60 | The green star | Heiner Heindorf (Gerhard Neumann, Heiner Rank) |
Issue 17/60 | The raid | Pavel Luknizki |
Issue 18/60 | The death of La Morgaine | Hans Müncheberg |
Issue 19/60 | A cookware full of sugar | Franz Hannemann |
Issue 20/60 | The shark cage | James Aldridge |
Issue 21/60 | Lost on Grumant I. | Constantine Badigin |
Issue 22/60 | Lost on Grumant II | Constantine Badigin |
Issue 23/60 | The probation | Hans Robert Schröter |
Issue 24/60 | The Lone Bison's Fallacy | James Willard Schultz |
Issue 01/61 | Golkonda I nuclear volcano | Arkadi and Boris Strugazki |
Issue 02/61 | Golkonda II nuclear volcano | Arkadi and Boris Strugazki |
Issue 03/61 | Golkonda III nuclear volcano | Arkadi and Boris Strugazki |
Issue 04/61 | This is theft | Marianne Bruns |
Issue 05/61 | Emergency landing in the desert | Walter Conrad |
Issue 06/61 | The devil | Nikolai Bogdanov |
Issue 07/61 | The spy | Josif Freilichman |
Issue 08/61 | Juan and Sico I | Fritz Adolf Koerber |
Issue 09/61 | Juan and Sico II | Fritz Adolf Koerber |
Issue 10/61 | Major Hogan's case | Norbert Frýd |
Issue 11/61 | Escape to the Thorwald walls | Klaus Heilbock |
Issue 12/61 | An everyday story | Boris Lavrenev |
Issue 13/61 | The fisherman in the net | Franco Solinas |
Issue 14/61 | ... and the Indians move to the Rio Negro | Vladimir Šustr |
Issue 15/61 | In the Kara-Bumba jungle | Yossif Dik |
Issue 16/61 | The lion of Gombari | Friedrich Jarschel |
Issue 17/61 | A car wreck and 1000 pranks I. | Anatoly Rybakov |
Issue 18/61 | A car wreck and 1000 pranks II | Anatoly Rybakov |
Issue 19/61 | The polyp | Dieter Schubert |
Issue 20/61 | The train leaves at five | Heiner Rank |
Issue 21/61 | The gold treasure in the taiga | Karl Grünberg |
Issue 22/61 | Captain Lothaire's orders | Manfred Künne |
Issue 23/61 | The red pony | John Steinbeck |
Issue 24/61 | The guilt of the partisan | Gennadi fish |
Issue 01/62 | The perfect alibi | Günter Prodöhl |
Issue 02/62 | Katja and the crocodile | Nina Gernet |
Issue 03/62 | On behalf of the Maquis | Herbert de Lamboy |
Issue 04/62 | The camel eye | Chingis Aitmatov |
Issue 05/62 | Escape to the front | Hans von Oettingen |
Issue 06/62 | The Tuareg diamonds | H. Ahmed W. Treffz |
Issue 07/62 | The boys turn the wind I | Günter Rumposch |
Issue 08/62 | The boys turn the wind II | Günter Rumposch |
Issue 09/62 | Rob Day's fantastic machine | Anatoly Dneprov / Stanisław Lem / Vladimir Savchenko |
Issue 10/62 | Otto and Else | Berta Lask |
Issue 11/62 | Light in the castle ruins | Arkadi Gaidar |
Issue 12/62 | Wolf tracks | Vitali Bianki |
Issue 13/62 | Murder in the arbor colony | Günter Prodöhl |
Issue 14/62 | They called him amigo | Wera and Claus Küchenmeister |
Issue 15/62 | The lonely atoll I | Kamil Giżycki |
Issue 16/62 | The lonely atoll II | Kamil Giżycki |
Issue 17/62 | Rogues of Nasreddin | Leonid Solovyov |
Issue 18/62 | "Pennant" group | Vladimir Uspensky |
Issue 19/62 | The cobbler brat | Hans Eschenburg |
Issue 20/62 | Storm over the steppe | Mikhail Sholokhov |
Issue 21/62 | 12141 meters in free fall | Alexei Golikov |
Issue 22/62 | Top secret! | Hans von Oettingen |
Issue 23/62 | The network | Siegfried Pitschmann |
Issue 24/62 | Escaped the pursuers | Leonid Syomin |
Special issue 1962 | Death must wait | Grigory Fedoseev |
Special issue 1962 | The secret message | Leonid Panteleev |
Issue 01/63 | My friends - the lions | Otto Sailer-Jackson |
Issue 02/63 | The stolen cactus | Karel Čapek |
Issue 03/63 | ... and enemies all around I | Vladimir Schmerling |
Issue 04/63 | ... and enemies all around II | Vladimir Schmerling |
Issue 05/63 | KS5 fails | Peter Wipp |
Issue 06/63 | Mischief over the city | Alexander Milchakov |
Issue 07/63 | Ammunition wagon 8743 G | Karl St. Scheewe |
Issue 08/63 | The failure | Valentin Kataev |
Issue 09/63 | The OKW does not announce anything more | Klaus Poche / Hans Oliva |
Issue 10/63 | Matriculation examination | Kurt Menke |
Issue 11/63 | Pirates paint the flag | Rodrigo Borgia |
Issue 12/63 | Murder without atonement | Günter Spranger |
Issue 13/63 | Return to the wild | Yuri Kazakov |
Issue 14/63 | The white accident car | Hans von Oettingen |
Issue 15/63 | The puzzling find | Gleb Golubev |
Issue 16/63 | The gallows ship | Mikhail Bubennow |
Issue 17/63 | The fort on the Missouri | Heinz Kessler |
Issue 18/63 | The killer lives | Nikolai Panov |
Issue 19/63 | Accident in the air | Andrei Merkulov |
Issue 20/63 | The dragon island | František Běhounek |
Issue 21/63 | Hunt for the electron spy | Nikolai Toman |
Issue 22/63 | The girl gentle cloud | Eduard Claudius |
Issue 23/63 | Behind enemy lines | Nikolai Chukovsky |
Issue 24/63 | The black galley | Wilhelm Raabe |
Issue 01/64 | A dead man follows the trail | Mikhail Vodopyanov |
Issue 02/64 | The sergeant and the prince | Eduard Claudius |
Issue 03/64 | For Eyes Only I. | Peter Wipp |
Issue 04/64 | For Eyes Only II | Peter Wipp |
Issue 05/64 | The dead man from Charley's bar | Hans von Oettingen |
Issue 06/64 | Action wooden eye | Alexei Leontiev |
Issue 07/64 | March orders against death | Alexander Bek |
Issue 08/64 | Lost in a blizzard | Boris Gorbatov |
Issue 09/64 | Distress signals from the planetoid | Georgi Gurevich |
Issue 10/64 | Escape with Jasava | Vladimir Šustr |
Issue 11/64 | The death sentence | Emmanuil Kazakevich |
Issue 12/64 | Crash landing in the swamp | Lev Justschenko |
Issue 13/64 | The bush fire | Joachim Specht |
Issue 14/64 | A girl becomes a soldier | Alexander Rodimtsev |
Issue 15/64 | The prisoners of Le Vernet | Friedrich Wolf |
Issue 16/64 | The clam trap | Joachim Specht |
Issue 17/64 | Human traffickers on board | Rodrigo Borgia |
Issue 18/64 | The vagabond's adventures | Fyodor Knorre |
Issue 19/64 | Calls from the whirlpool | Sergei Sartakov |
Issue 20/64 | Killer in uniform | Hans von Oettingen |
Issue 21/64 | The secret of the glacial lake | Ilya Ryshow |
Issue 22/64 | The fight in the cockpit | Jakow Woltschek |
Issue 23/64 | The nightingale of Paris | Walter Basan |
Issue 24/64 | Men walk in the dark | Jiří Marek |
Issue 01/65 | The story of a crime | Maxim Gorky |
Issue 02/65 | Fighter pilots attack | Sergei Kursenkow |
Issue 03/65 | Order murder I. | Julian Semyonov |
Issue 04/65 | Order Murder II | Julian Semyonov |
Issue 05/65 | Mister Hull comes at twelve | Hans von Oettingen |
Issue 06/65 | The night with the enemy | Vasily Bykov |
Issue 07/65 | In the black tent of the Bedouin chief | Lothar Stein |
Issue 08/65 | 24-25 does not return | Gunars Círulis |
Issue 09/65 | A bad night in the life of the thief Šejba | Jaroslav Hašek |
Issue 10/65 | Criminal record | Kurt Menke |
Issue 11/65 | The last door | Jeremej Parnov |
Issue 12/65 | The black sphinx | Ernst Keienburg |
Issue 13/65 | Command to die | Rodrigo Borgia |
Issue 14/65 | The bandit’s revenge | Jakow Woltschek |
Issue 15/65 | The trap | Vasily Bykov |
Issue 16/65 | Mr. Gropper's strange death | Zinovi Yuryev |
Issue 17/65 | The mute and his mistress | Ivan Turgenev |
Issue 18/65 | In the cave of the Guacharos | Maciej Kuczynski |
Issue 19/65 | Murder on the border | Rolf Guddat |
Issue 20/65 | black and white | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
Issue 21/65 | A man disembarked | Yuri Klimentschenko |
Issue 22/65 | Divers in the fire | Kurt Menke |
Issue 23/65 | The girl commander | Nikolai Chukovsky |
Issue 24/65 | Murder in the restricted area | Wilfried Göldner |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See two publishers and their adventure series , in: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, Vol. 122, No. 36, September 3, 1955, p. 630