Kurt Karl Doberer

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Kurt Karl Doberer (born September 11, 1904 in Nuremberg ; † August 20, 1993 ibid.) Was a German engineer , journalist , writer and philatelist .

Life

Kurt Karl Doberer was the son of an employee. He attended secondary school and studied mechanical engineering at the Technical State College in Nuremberg from 1924 to 1927 . He then worked as a monitoring engineer at the Siemens-Schuckert works in Nuremberg . Study trips took him to the Middle East and North Africa . His first SF story Wunder im Mond was published as early as 1926 . Doberer belonged to the SPD from 1927 . 1931-32 he studied journalism at the Institute of Newspaper customer of the School of Economics and Social Sciences Nuremberg , 1932-33 at the Department of journalism of the School of Political Science in Berlin ; During this time he was a member of the socialist student body and head of the "Academic Legion" within the social-democratic " Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold ", with which he tried to prevent a Hitler government in 1933 . After the power of the Nazis and a house search by the Gestapo emigrated Doberer end of 1933 in the Czechoslovakia .

Doberer, who had already made frequent contributions to the Social Democratic press since 1926, kept afloat during his stay in Prague with journalistic work, including for the German exile press. His first novel, published in sequels in 1928, was reissued in Prague in 1934 as Die Rakete . In the thirties he wrote political poems as well as other utopian-technical stories and novels , of which the anti-fascist utopia “Republic of the North Pole” was best known. In this novel, the crew of an armored cruiser refuses to obey the brown authorities, successfully escapes through the oceans and founds a free republic at the North Pole. In addition, speculative non-fiction books about future developments in war weapon technology were created. In 1938, with the support of the Czech PEN , he managed to emigrate to Great Britain. At the beginning of World War II he was interned on the Isle of Man . 1941/42 he worked on the BBC program ; from 1942 he was a member and secretary of the German-speaking PEN center in London .

In 1949 Doberer returned to Nuremberg from emigration . In the following period he again provided numerous articles for German newspapers and also published some fiction works and non-fiction books. Since the 1960s, however, the focus of his work has been on the field of philately : Doberer was a certified and sworn expert for classic old German postage stamps and wrote numerous books for stamp collectors . As an author with a weakness for technical utopia, which he often had critical traits, and the Orient, Doberer had been largely forgotten long before his death in Germany.

Awards

Works

author

Articles in German exile journals 1933–1945
Poetry
  • Raise our flags in the wind! Poems of that time. Graphia Publishing House, Karlsbad 1936.
  • Prolet that is you. Poems of that time. Neumann Publishing House, Prague 1935.
  • Call of the Stars. Poems. Verlag der Nürnberger Presse, Nuremberg 1968.
  • The rail. Poems. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1948.
Five of his poems are in the science fiction - Romanheft Terra Nova # 102. (Jeff Sutton: The man who came from the future ) published. Moewig Verlag , Munich 1969.
prose
  • Women stories. ABZ-Verlag, Fürth 1990, ISBN 3-927762-01-6 .
  • The green comet. La Presse Libre, Strasbourg 1949 (formerly Lilith and the Comet ).
  • The rocket. Prague 1934.
  • Republic of the North Pole. Guhl-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88220-254-8 (former title Nordpol - Gold am Pol ).
  • Miracles in the moon. Wettin-Verlag, Kirchberg / Jagst 1971 (SF short story collection).
Non-fiction
  • In search of the indivisible. 2500 years of elements and atomic research from Thales to Mme Curie. Pfriemer-Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7906-0105-5 .
  • Bavaria philately. History of the Bavarian postage stamps. Phil-Creativ-Verlag, Schwalmtal 1990, ISBN 3-928277-00-6 .
  • Dragon battle. Legends, reports, eyewitnesses. Hohenloher publishing house, Gerabronn 1970.
  • Electrical war. Machine versus human. Saturn publishing house, Vienna 1937.
  • Essais and proofs of the old German states. Amm-Verlag, Nuremberg 1963.
  • The gold makers. Ten thousand years of alchemy. 2nd edition Universitas-Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8004-1124-5 .
  • Gold prospectors, gold makers. World between action and dream. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1960.
  • Handbook for the stamp collector. A guide for new collectors. Philapress, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-924781-11-7 .
  • Small stamp customer. A guide for young collectors. Dtv, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-423-07153-2 .
  • Philately for connoisseurs. Goldmann, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-442-10601-X (reprint of the Hanover 1970 edition).
  • Diamonds and crowned lions. History of the Bavarian postage stamp. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7654-1449-2 .
  • Collecting stamps properly. 5th edition Heyne, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-453-41240-0 (former title Collecting Stamps with Profit ).
  • Shipwreck. deserted islands, robinsons, pirates; Documents, reports, facts. Hohenloher Verlagshaus, Gerabronn 1969.
  • Black ones, red threes. A brief cultural history of the postage stamp. Fackelträger-Verlag, Hanover 1967.
  • The meaning and future of automation. EVA, Frankfurt / M. 1958.
  • Death rays and other new weapons of war. Malik-Verlag, London 1936 (together with Max Seydewitz).
  • The unknown weapon. Possibilities and limits. Editions Nouvelles Internationales, Paris 1939.
  • The United States of Germany. Verlag Weismann, Munich 1947.

editor

  • Shipwrecked on deserted islands. Old sources retold. Holz-Verlag, Berlin 1972.
  • Till Eulenspiegel's picaresque pranks. Public Life Publishing House, Göttingen 1949.
  • Wise fools, foolish wise ones. The best Eulenspiegel stories from old folk books retold and the "Ur-Münchhausen" translated from English. Hohenloher Verlagshaus, Gerabronn 1968.

editor

  • Old postage stamps. Battenberg-Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-87045-215-3 (Battenberg's antiques catalogs).
  • Nice postage stamps. Harenberg-Verlag, Dortmund 1979, ISBN 3-88379-099-0 (The bibliophile paperbacks; 99).

translator

  • Daniel Defoe : The pirate. Gold treasures, buccaneers, distant islands ("The king of pirates"). 2nd edition. Arena-Verlag, Würzburg 1978.
  • John Diebold : The automatic factory ("Automation"). 2nd edition Nest-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1955.
  • Rudolf Erich Raspe : Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen. Report of his wonderful adventures and campaigns in Russia ("Baron Munchhausen's narrative of his marvelous travels and campaigns"). Public Life Publishing House, Göttingen 1949.
  • Pierre Viaud : Captain Viaud's notes of the merciless struggle for survival after the sinking of the "Tiger" in the Gulf of Mexico, 1766 ("Naufrage et aventures de M Pierre Viaud, natif de Bordeaux, capitaine de navire"). Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-7711-0306-1 .

literature

  • Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 132.
  • Uli Kohnle: KK Doberer: Bibliography. In: Joachim Körber (Hrsg.): Bibliographisches Lexikon der Utopisch-Fantastischen Literatur. 16. Supplementary delivery. Corian, 1988.
  • Thomas M. Loock: Kurt K. Doberer (born 1904). In: Hans Joachim Alpers, Thomas M. Loock (Hrsg.): Reading book of German science fiction 1984. Corian (Edition Futurum # 4), 1983, ISBN 3-89048-204-X .
  • Wolfgang Maaßen: Who is who in philately. Volume 1: A - D. 3rd edition. Phil Creativ - Publishing House and Agency, Schwalmtal 2011, ISBN 978-3-932198-92-2 , p. 288 f.
  • Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , p. 386 f. (Short biography).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of holders of the Federal Order of Merit (Federal President's Office)
personal data
SURNAME Doberer, Kurt Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, journalist, writer and philatelist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1993
Place of death Nuremberg