Crime adventure fantasy
Krimi - Abenteuer - Phantastik (abbreviation: kap ) was a popular series of booklets aimed at young people from the genres of crime , adventure and fantasy from the GDR . There were new publications and translations published mainly by contemporary authors, in large part from the Soviet Union or other friendly countries of Eastern Europe.
Brief edition history
Most of the booklets were illustrated and appeared as the successor to the Kleine Jugendreihe from 1966 to 1971 by Verlag Kultur & Progress , Berlin (after the merger at Verlag Volk und Welt ), every six months up to and including 1969, from 1970 only about monthly, each in Format 15 × 11 cm from issue 73 then in format 16.5 × 11.5 cm. The single issue cost a constant 35 pfennigs. The envelope was provided with a colored illustration. The volume of the booklet was 64 pages.
List of booklets (1966–1971)
| No. | year | Title (single title for narrative collections) | Author or authors | Envelope / illustrations | Genre / further description | Country of origin of the story (s) / translator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1966 | Steps into the unknown | Sewer Gansowski | Gertrud Boesel | Future narration over a different period of time in the same place | Soviet Union / Ruth Henkel |
| 2 | 1966 | Who knows the dead? | A. Ryabzew | Werner Ruhner | Detective story takes place in the Soviet Union | Soviet Union / Doris-Ursula Pirl |
| 3 | 1966 | Robber in the gray car | Lev Samoilov and Vladimir Girin | Werner Ruhner | Crime narrative takes place in the Soviet Union ; already published in 1955 in a small youth series | Soviet Union / E. Linde and W. Rathfelder |
| 4th | 1966 | Code name "Zyklon-Süd" | Dmitri Morozov | Karl Fischer | War story from the Second World War | Soviet Union / Dieter Pommerenke |
| 5 | 1966 | Nosedive from the clouds | Sergei Anochin | Hans Räde | Adventure story about the life of a test pilot in the Soviet Union; from the volume "The Invisible Barrier" | Soviet Union / G. Lichtenstein |
| 6th | 1966 | The lord of the jungle | Rudyard Kipling | Werner Ruhner | 2 adventure stories from the new jungle book ("Rothund" and "Im Rukh") by a human child who was raised by animals in the jungle of India | Great Britain / Curt Abel-Musgrave |
| 7th | 1966 | Storm on the Mill (Storm on the Mill) (The Flood) | Emile Zola | Gertrud Boesel | 2 love stories ("Sturm auf die Mühle" and "The Flood") are about France, the first at the time of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 | France / Curt Noch |
| 8th | 1966 | Doctor in no man's land | Kurt Menke | Hans Räde | War story from the Second World War | GDR |
| 9 | 1966 | Radio warning: earthquake ...! (Steve Bright disappears) (The voice from the anti-world) (Index J-81) (Radio warning: earthquake ...!) (Bio currents, bio currents ...) | Maksud Ibrahimbek / Sewer Gansowski / Ilja Warschawski / S. Schitomirski | Werner Ruhner | 5 stories about the future | Soviet Union / unknown |
| 10 | 1966 | The fateful pardon | Lev Sheynin | Karl Fischer | Detective story takes place in the Soviet Union | Soviet Union / Doris-Ursula Pirl |
| 11 | 1966 | Policeman Meskentin | Gerhard Jackel | Hans Räde | Crime story takes place in the Federal Republic of Germany | GDR |
| 12 | 1966 | The man in the barrage | Konstantin Simonow | Hans Räde | War story from World War II, battle on the Volga ; Chapters 18-20 from the novel "Days and Nights" | Soviet Union / E. Margolis and R. Czora |
| 13 | 1966 | The invisible radio operator | Jan Litan | Hans Räde | Espionage story from World War II; from the book "Encounter with Spies" | Poland / Eugenie Walter |
| 14th | 1966 | Remus solves crimes | Jacques Wertheimer-Ghika | Karl Fischer | Criminal story about counterfeiting takes place in Romania | Romania / unknown |
| 15th | 1966 | The fire belt | Gleb Golubev | Karl Fischer | scientific-fantastic story | Soviet Union / Anneliese Globig |
| 16 | 1966 | Rebellion on the island | František Běhounek | Werner Ruhner | Adventure story (partly Robinsonade ) is about Ecuador after colonial independence | Czechoslovakia / Gustav Just |
| 17th | 1966 | Disappeared without a trace (Disappeared without a trace) (Monsieur Edouard Herriot's Breguet watch) | Lev Sheynin | Hans Räde | 2 crime stories take place in the Soviet Union , "disappeared without a trace" is taken from the book "Shadows of the Past" | Soviet Union / Viktor Gronfain ("disappeared without a trace"), Thomas Reschke ("Monsieur Edouard Herriot's Breguet watch") |
| 18th | 1966 | The elephant driver | Oleg Erberg | Jürgen Wittdorf | Adventure narration is set in Afghanistan in the 1920s; already published in 1958 in " Kleine Jugendzeile " | Soviet Union / Thomas Reschke |
| 19th | 1966 | Pilots in aerial combat | AV Voroshejkin | Hans Räde | War story from the Second World War; from the book "Jagdflieger" | Soviet Union / Heinz Kübart |
| 20th | 1966 | Shipwrecked in the tropical sea | Yuri Ivanov | Gertrud Boesel | Adventure narration takes place in the Atlantic in the mid to late 20th century | Soviet Union / Norbert Randow and Werner Tzschoppe |
| 21st | 1966 | The Three Beautiful Cheaters (The Three Beautiful Cheaters) (The Blue Room) | Tirso de Molina and Prosper Mérimée | Werner Ruhner | 2 adventure stories are about old Spain ("The three beautiful deceivers", originally "The three fooled husbands") and two people in love in France in the last part of the 19th century ("The Blue Room"), the latter from the volume "Auserlesene Novellas "by Prosper Mérimée | Spain / Egon Hartmann ("The Three Beautiful Cheaters"), France / Helmut Bartuschek ("The Blue Room") |
| 22nd | 1966 | Shots in the town hall | H. Germar | unknown | War story from the Second World War | GDR |
| 23 | 1966 | Under the banner of the white stag | Klaus Möckel | Irmhild and Hilmar Proft | Adventure tale is fairytale-like in the Asian-Oriental region | GDR |
| 24 | 1966 | Mursuk's revenge | Vitali Bianki | Hans Räde | Animal tale about a lynx is about the early 20th century in the Soviet Union; already published in 1958 in " Kleine Jugendzeile " | Soviet Union / Johannes Richter |
| 25th | 1967 | Action boomerang | Erich Loest | Werner Ruhner | War story from the Second World War | GDR |
| 26th | 1967 | A prey for wolves | Jack London | Hans Räde | Adventure narration | |
| 27 | 1967 | Escape to death | Franz Fuehmann | Hans Räde | War story from the Second World War | GDR |
| 28 | 1967 | The electronic Melmoth | Gennadi Gor | Werner Ruhner | Future narrative | Soviet Union / Norbert Randow and Werner Tzschoppe |
| 29 | 1967 | Footsteps on the asphalt | Jacques Wertheimer-Ghika | Werner Ruhner | Crime story | Romania |
| 30th | 1967 | Through embers and desert sand | Vladimir Karpov | Hans Räde | 2 stories | Soviet Union / Doris-Ursula Pirl |
| 31 | 1967 | The convict from Devil's Island | Hans von Oettingen | Werner Ruhner | Story about the Dreyfus affair | |
| 32 | 1967 | The last shot | Boris Lavrenev | Karl Fischer | Adventure story takes place after the October Revolution in the Soviet Union | Soviet Union / unknown |
| 33 | 1967 | Porportuk's revenge | Jack London | Hans Räde | 2 adventure stories | United States / Christine Hoeppener |
| 34 | 1967 | Death loses a chance | Dieter Sternbeck | Karl Fischer | ||
| 35 | 1967 | The Dillinger gang | Günter Prodöhl | Karl Fischer | Documentary retelling of the crimes of John Dillinger ; later republished in the book series Criminal Cases Without Example | |
| 36 | 1967 | Who is the fifth | Viktor Smirnov | Werner Ruhner | Soviet Union / Norbert Randow and Werner Tzschoppe | |
| 37 | 1967 | Spook on the "Sea Prince" | Yuri Klimentschenko | Peter Kunze | Sea adventure narrative | Soviet Union / Leon minor number |
| 38 | 1967 | The ten from the "Alexander" | František Běhounek | Werner Ruhner | Czechoslovakia / Gustav Just | |
| 39 | 1967 | A gruesome discovery | Yevgeny Ryss and Ivan Bodunow | Karl Fischer | Detective story takes place in the Soviet Union | Soviet Union / Ruth Henkel |
| 40 | 1967 | Murder in the zero hour | Günter Spranger | Hans Räde | narrative | |
| 41 | 1967 | Journey to Death I. | Viktor Smirnov | Karl Fischer | Crime story | Soviet Union / Dieter Pommerenke |
| 42 | 1967 | Journey to Death II. | Viktor Smirnov | Karl Fischer | Soviet Union / Dieter Pommerenke | |
| 43 | 1967 | The gray murderer | Kurt Bachor | Irmhild and Hilmar Proft | ||
| 44 | 1967 | Trial by fire at dawn | Nikolai Chukovsky | Werner Ruhner | Soviet Union / Hannelore Menke | |
| 45 | 1967 | Above the abyss | Hans-Georg Lietz | Hans Räde | Tale of a driver | GDR |
| 46 | 1967 | The man who read minds | Zinovi Yuryev | Karl Fischer | fantastic crime story | Soviet Union / Erna Linde |
| 47 | 1967 | Rendezvous at midnight | Kurt Menke | Werner Ruhner | ||
| 48 | 1967 | The mail riders of the Vltava | Jacques Wertheimer-Ghika | Petrer Kunze | Romania | |
| 49 | 1968 | The white death | Jack London | Horst Bartsch | Adventure narration | United States / Irmhild Brandstädter |
| 50 | 1968 | Attention red light! | Hans von Oettingen | Karl Fischer | ||
| 51 | 1968 | The stolen techmine | Alexander Lomm et al. a. | Werner Ruhner | 6 fantastic stories | Soviet Union / Norbert Randow and Werner Tzschoppe / Doris-Ursula Pirl |
| 52 | 1968 | The green flare | Semjon Kuznetsov et al. a. | Hans Räde | 2 war stories from the Second World War | Soviet Union / Marlene Milack / Sigrid Fischer |
| 53 | 1968 | The eye of the Centaurus | Jerzy Broszkiewicz | Werner Ruhner | fantastic story | Poland / Liesbeth Hoffmann |
| 54 | 1968 | In the luggage net to Siberia | Anatoly Kuznetsov | Peter Kunze | narrative | Soviet Union / Gottfried J. Wojtek |
| 55 | 1968 | Adventure in three continents: among human traffickers and pirates | Lajos Hevesi | Hans Räde | Part 1 of the adventure story | Hungary / József Takách |
| 56 | 1968 | Adventure in three continents: slaves, mercenaries, pillar saints | Lajos Hevesi | Hans Räde | Part 2 of the adventure story | Hungary / József Takách |
| 57 | 1968 | Crabs attack / The gravitational concentrator | Anatoly Dneprov / Alexander Shalimov | Hans Räde | 2 fantastic stories | Soviet Union / Norbert Randow and Werner Tzschoppe |
| 58 | 1968 | The camouflaged scout | Siegfried Dietrich | Werner Ruhner | War story from the Second World War | |
| 59 | 1968 | Adventure on three continents: In the jungle of the Banda Islands | Lajos Hevesi | Hans Räde | Part 3 of the adventure story | Hungary / József Takách |
| 60 | 1968 | Caught by robots | Jewgeni Woiskunski u. Issai Lukodyanov | Werner Ruhner | Soviet Union / Norbert Randow and Werner Tzschoppe | |
| 61 | 1968 | Captain Bering's last voyage | Herbert Wotte | Karl Fischer | ||
| 62 | 1968 | In the Indian forests | Friedrich Gerstäcker | Karl Fischer | ||
| 63 | 1968 | Shots at the mountain pass | Józef Stompor | Detlev student | Poland / Kurt Kelm | |
| 64 | 1968 | The curse-laden valley | Gleb Golubev | Hans Räde | Soviet Union / Ingeborg Schröder | |
| 65 | 1968 | Fire in the snow | Jack London | Karl Fischer | United States / Hannelore Menke / Christine Hoeppener / Irmhild Brandstädter / Joachim Marten | |
| 66 | 1968 | On a secret mission | Lew Ginsburg | Detlev student | Soviet Union / Charlotte Kossuth | |
| 67 | 1968 | The man from Canada | Hans von Oettingen | Hans Räde | ||
| 68 | 1968 | Murder without a trace | Lev Samoilow et al. a. | Karl Fischer | Soviet Union / Ruth Henkel | |
| 69 | 1968 | Towards the disaster | Alexei Leontiev | Karl Fischer | Soviet Union / Doris-Ursula Pirl | |
| 70 | 1968 | Wild animals on the track | Carl Hagenbeck | Werner Ruhner | ||
| 71 | 1968 | The son of Poseidon | Yuri Abdaschew u. a. | Detlev student | Soviet Union / Marlene Milack / Elena Panzig / Thomas Reschke | |
| 72 | The major and death | Ion Baiesu / Smirnow | Detlev student | Romania / Valentin Lupescu / Soviet Union / Marlene Milack | ||
| 73 | 1969 | Just a stocking | Hans Walldorf | Werner Ruhner | ||
| 74 | 1969 | Ahasvers' scaphander | Alexander Lomm | Werner Ruhner | Soviet Union / Norbert Randow and Werner Tzschoppe / Aljonna Möckel | |
| 75 | 1969 | Tampico course | Hans von Oettingen | Karl Fischer | ||
| 76 | 1969 | The hunt | Nikolai Leskov | Erich Melcher | Soviet Union / Unknown / Katharina Gilde / Else Wilde / Poland / Henryk Bereska | |
| 77 | 1969 | The valley of the wicked | Fritz Selbmann | Erich Melcher | The story takes place in the prison and concentration camp during the Third Reich | GDR |
| 78 | 1969 | Competition with death | Alexei Golikov | Hans Räde | Soviet Union / Karel Hemzal | |
| 79 | 1969 | Mutiny on the moon | Arkadi and Boris Strugazki u. a. | Hans Räde | Soviet Union / Erich Einhorn / Gisela Kuhnert | |
| 80 | 1969 | The robbery | Nikolai Leskow u. a. | Karl Fischer / Hainz Hamisch | Soviet Union / Gerhard Dick | |
| 81 | 1969 | The sutler | Alois Jirásek | Karl Fischer | Czechoslovakia / Egon Jiricek / Rolf Ulbrich | |
| 82 | 1969 | Bank robbery at midnight | Hans Räde | humorous fantastic stories | Soviet Union / Hannelore Menke / Harry Schnittke / Norbert Randow and Werner Tzschoppe / Ilse Krätzig / Ruth Henkel / Johanna Jutzas | |
| 83 | 1969 | You don't die twice | Hans von Oettingen | Detlev student | ||
| 84 | 1969 | Murder on Dubovik | Yuri Plaschewski | Hans Räde | Soviet Union / Peter Lobig | |
| 85 | 1969 | Flight to Alpha Eridani | Alexander Kolpakow u. a. | Wolf Friedrich | Soviet Union / Ingeborg Schröder / Ruth Henkel / Sophie Wauer | |
| 86 | 1969 | Ede with the combination pliers | Hans von Oettingen | Karl Fischer | ||
| 87 | 1969 | First love station | Wladimir Amlinski u. a. | Werner Ruhner | Soviet Union / Aljonna Möckel / Marlene Milack | |
| 88 | 1969 | Mr. Gropper's strange death | Zinovi Yuryev | Karl Fischer | fantastic crime story | Soviet Union / Rolf Bräuer |
| 89 | 1969 | The old gold digger | Jack London | Erich Melcher | United States / Elli Berger / Günter Löffler | |
| 90 | 1969 | Flares over the "Elbia" | Egon Richter | Detlev student | ||
| 91 | 1969 | The Tarakul ski jump | Boris Polewoi | Hans Räde | Soviet Union / Wolfgang Müller | |
| 92 | 1969 | Freckenfeld camp | Günter Spranger | Werner Ruhner | ||
| 93 | 1969 | White eyes | Arkadi and Georgi Wainer | Karl Fischer | Soviet Union / Harry Burck | |
| 94 | 1969 | White eyes II part | Arkadi and Georgi Wainer | Karl Fischer | Soviet Union / Harry Burck | |
| 95 | 1969 | Chronicle of a murder | Hans von Oettingen | Detlev student | ||
| 96 | 1969 | The strange radio message | Lew Stekolnikow and a. | Wolf Friedrich | Cover story was re-released in 1978 as The New Adventure 378 | Soviet Union / Aljonna Möckel / Ingeborg Subert-Kolinko / Ilse Krätzig |
| 97 | 1970 | The underwater bridge | Konstantin Simonow | Karl Fischer | Soviet Union / Hilde Angarowa / Sigrid Fischer | |
| 98 | 1970 | The secret order | Erich Loest | Hans Räde | ||
| 99 | 1970 | The eight zeros (island of fear) | Georgi Gurewitsch u. Günther Krupkat | Werner Ruhner | 2 fantastic stories | Soviet Union / Caesar Rymarowicz / GDR |
| 100 | 1970 | The death medallion | Yuri Jakowlew u. a. | Karl Fischer | Soviet Union / Mimi Barillot | |
| 101 | 1970 | A coup d'état between the fronts | Werner Reinowski | Hans Räde | ||
| 102 | 1970 | The enigmatic meteor | Jan Weiss | Erich Melcher | fantastic story | Czechoslovakia / Heinz Koblischke |
| 103 | 1970 | The steel monster | L. Platow et al. a. | Wolf Friedrich | Soviet Union / Peter Lobig | |
| 104 | 1970 | The telegram | Konstantin Paustowski | Werner Ruhner | Soviet Union / Ena von Baer / Georg Schwarz / Thomas Reschke | |
| 105 | 1970 | The pass of the clouds | Harry Thürk | Hans Räde | ||
| 106 | 1970 | The lookalike | Vladimir Michanowski | Werner Ruhner | fantastic story | Soviet Union / Norbert Randow and Werner Tzschoppe |
| 107 | 1970 | The stranger in the border forest | Hans von Oettingen | Karl Fischer | ||
| 108 | 1970 | The call of the wild | Jack London | Wolf Friedrich | United States / Lisa H. Löns | |
| 109 | 1970 | The last bandit | Vladimir's Kaijaks | Partisan tale about the fateful friendship with a dog is set in Latvia, later published under the original title "Satan" | Soviet Union / Welta Ehlert | |
| 110 | 1970 | The big bluff | Hans von Oettingen | Karl Fischer | ||
| 111 | 1971 | A pinch of poison | Kurt Menke | Werner Ruhner | ||
| 112 | 1971 | The fifth dimension | Konrad Fialkowski | Werner Ruhner | 4 fantastic stories | Poland / Christa Schubert-Consbruch / Johannes Jankowiak |
| 113 | 1971 | The second face | Hans von Oettingen | Karl Fischer | ||
| 114 | 1971 | Charter to Karachi | Rodrigo Borgia | Wolf Friedrich |
literature
- Anita M. Mallinckrodt: The small mass medium. Social function u. political role d. Issue series literature in d. GDR. Science and Politics, Cologne, 1984, ISBN 3-8046-8619-2