Kurt Mahr

Klaus Mahn (alias Kurt Mahr) in the color of his student union (1954)

Kurt Mahr (born March 8, 1934 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 27, 1993 in Florida ; real name Klaus Mahn ; former pseudonym Cecil O. Mailer ) was a German writer and one since the beginning of the Perry-Rhodan series in 1961 of the authors and "the physicist on duty".

Life

After graduating from high school, Mahr began studying civil engineering in Darmstadt - where he joined the Corps Franconia Darmstadt - but then switched to physics in 1956. As a newly qualified physicist, he went to the USA , where he worked on the space program and in 1968 acquired American citizenship. He also worked as a computer expert for private clients. He lived in the USA until 1972 and stayed there - after an interlude in Germany - from 1977 until his death. On October 18, 1985, Mahr married Inge Voltz in Florida.

Since the late 1950s, Mahr has been one of the most successful German-speaking science fiction authors. In addition to the Perry Rhodan booklet novels, Kurt Mahr also wrote numerous Perry Rhodan planetary novels (paperback edition). This is where his strengths, a storytelling art that is reminiscent of crime stories, and the dense portrayal of characters together with a dry sense of humor come into their own.

Both before and during his writing activities for the Perry Rhodan editorial team, Mahr wrote numerous other science fiction novels that have no content-related reference to the Perry Rhodan series. This also includes the two self-contained short series War of the Milky Way with six novels and The Long Way to Earth with five novels (both at Terra Utopian Novels ).

After the death of William Voltz and the resignation of Thomas Ziegler , Kurt Mahr wrote the synopsis together with Ernst Vlcek from 1985 (issue 1250) . After his unexpected death, Robert Feldhoff took over this task.

Trivia

On March 24, 1994 - Mahr had previously died in June 1993 - the Perry Rhodan booklet novel No. 1,700 with the title Möbius was published . The cover picture of this volume, created by Johnny Bruck , shows a portrait of Kurt Mahr.

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Perry Rhodan Universe

Perry Rhodan booklet series (1961–1993)

Kurt Mahr wrote 253 novels of the Perry Rhodan main series (he wrote volume 1300 together with Ernst Vlcek ). This makes him the author who contributed most of the novels to this series.

5: atomic alarm
8: The base of Venus
11: Mutants in action
16: The spirits of Gol
17: Planet of the dying sun
20: Venus in danger
21: The nuclear war does not take place
24: In the jungle of the primeval world
25: The overhead
29: The Springer fleet
30: Tifflor, the partisan
35: In the land of the gods
38: Advance to Arkon
43: Drug Dealers of the Galaxy
47: Gom does not answer
53: The Damned of Isan
57: The assassin
59: Returning from Nowhere
62: The blue dwarfs
66: Guardian of the Exiles
68: Chase through the dimensions
69: Death lurks in half-space
72: The ambassadors from Aurigel
73: The three deserters
79: The atomic hell of Gray Beast
80: In the Druuf caves
82: Chess the Universe
93: The enemy in the dark
102: Division III intervenes
106: The idol of Passover
108: The desert of death
113: The miracle flower from Utik
118: The robot sergeant
122: The Lord Admiral's Death
127: Between the Milky Way
131: The hiding place in the future
136: Beasts of the Underworld
141: Station of the Invisible
146: Behind the time wall
155: The Nowhere Slaves
160: The mirror of horror
166: In the labyrinth of Eysal
167: Earth Spies
172: The Secret of the Holy Island
178: Akon's death row inmates
182: Three from the galactic defense
187: Soldiers for Kahalo
194: The secret invasion
195: The fall of the star dictator
201: Star station in nowhere
206: The horrors of the hollow world
214: The battle for the pyramids
219: Teleporter Warning!
225: Rendezvous in space
231: The System of the Lost
237: The Three Star Brothers
243: Space reconnaissance aircraft 008
249: The spirit of the machine
260: Ghosts of the Past
261: The Devil's Factory
267: return to the present
276: Wrong path through time
283: Escape from the poisonous planet
291: Bridge between the stars
296: The Lady of the Stars
305: The hour of the hypnocrystals
311: Deadly cargo to Danger I
317: Terror on the crystal planet
325: The time experiment of the exiles
333: The Sea of Dreams
342: Let the beasts die
349: The partisans from CREST
359: The Corvette of the Death Row inmates
368: From galaxy to galaxy
379: The Gate to Hell
395: The Hypersplague
532: The old one from USTRAC
547: The sun cast no shadow
562: Courier to Sol
572: The hour of the symbiote
581: The ghost mutants
599: decision day
600: The Invisible Frontier
606: Marathon of the spaceships
613: Scourge of Humanity
619: Hunt for the time machine
626: Battle of the Brains
633: The Psionic Hunt
639: The death of the grand administrator
645: The Catron vein
649: Chess of Darkness
657: The Arcturus Incident
658: Flight into the dark cloud
673: Spaceship Earth
681: The pentagon of the sun
689: The mutant's wandering
690: The flight of the incorporeal
699: Terra under an alien sun
700: aphilia
713: Robots don't lie
724: Secret rebel conference
734: Brainwashing Operation
735: The army from the ghetto
748: Raphael, the uncanny
749: Plan of Completion
759: Ice Desert Alaska
766: The Lord of the World
767: The Guardian of Palatka
776: The black spaceship
784: The Revenge of the Fire Aviators
791: The Comp and the Cyberneticist
799: Farewell to Terra
804: The time hammer
805: Escape from Intermezzo
815: The seven-D man
822: A stranger on Luna
823: The fight for the IRONDUKE
828: Idol of the Wolklovs
837: Under the spell of the neutron star
838: Paradise of the fire flyers
839: The great fireworks
848: Titan - the last bastion
849: Jump over the abyss
857: legacy of aphilia
858: The BASIS
868: Departure of the BASIS
869: The days of the monster
876: The world of the LARD
877: At the hands of the LARD
888: Raid of the Malgons
889: The fight for Quostoht
903: The source master
904: Murcon's Castle
915: Murcon's Legacy
916: The Well Master and the Beast
931: The shining prison
932: statue of power
945: The energy hunters
946: The sixth key
957: the dream planet
958: The Protector's Crypt
971: Alarm on Martappon
972: The voice out of nowhere
980: gravity alarm
981: Helpers of the Cosmocrats
990: Planet of the lucky charms
991: The last horde
1004: The stages of knowledge
1005: Death trip to Felloy
1017: In the footsteps of the brotherhood
1018: The Betschiden and the hunter
1029: The invincible
1030: Master of the Past
1039: The Voice of the Brotherhood
1040: Mishap over crane
1049: Secret agent for crane
1050: The Ursuf robots
1058: advance to M 3
1059: Rock of Solitude
1068: Return to Hell
1078: The Seth Apophis Brigade
1084: Operation Kardec Shield
1090: The Kardec district
1098: The stone messenger
1099: The Porleyter collective
1106: The Rubble Riders
1107: Beyond the Deadly Line
1114: The Curse of the Cosmocrat
1121: The sun hammer
1122: Raid of the Armada Forge
1128: Space Titans
1129: The commanding code
1137: One against Terra
1138: Triumph of the psykers
1148: The black pyramid
1150: The great vision
1159: Seth-Apophis
1160: Aitheran calls
1161: Dance of Death in M 82
1169: Gate of Loolandre
1170: Abyss under the black sun
1177: The Boy from Case Mountain
1178: The fourth wisdom
1190: The steel spider
1191: In the shadowy realm of the Yo
1199: The Prince and the Hunchback
1200: Ordoban
1208: In the Catacombs of Starsen
1209: The Gray Lords
1225: Bastion in the gray land
1226: The battle for treasures
1232: Attack on Gatas
1233: Return to the negative world
1244: Terra dream world
1245: The evil spirit of Terra
1253: Departure for Erendyra
1254: world without hope
1266: The warrior's train
1267: Escape from Elysium
1271: Finale in the deep
1272: Revolt of the Knights
1278: The Elfahder
1284: At the pass of the Icana
1285: The Game of Life
1295: The new Sotho
1298: The Gorim of Aquamarine
1300: The goers of the network (co-author: Ernst Vlcek )
1308: The miracle of the Milky Way
1309: Hot cargo for Terra
1318: DORIFER
1324: Big Brother
1325: The death of a warrior
1333: Under the spell of the Psichogon
1339: Ijarkor's last battle
1346: Decision in room fort 3201
1347: At the event horizon
1350: TARKAN
1356: The Latter-day Message
1361: The Anklam Project
1362: The Sun Seeker
1372: Twelve spaceships to Tarkan
1373: IMAGO
1385: The matter seesaw
1388: Courier to Tarkan
1399: ESTARTU
1400: Gods of the night
1410: The droid
1418: The giant's cave
1424: Revolt on Phoenix
1433: Blockade breakers
1442: The gray eminences
1444: legend and truth
1453: The unknown enemy
1464: The Phantom of the Phoenix
1474: The Supreme Command
1482: The outsider's solo effort
1493: The Cosmocrat's prison
1502: The final deadline
1516: Chaos in the humanidrome
1523: the project
1548: orbit in nowhere
1555: To Arkon's fame and honor
1562: The Keeper's Bastion
1570: The house of security
1571: PE-helpful
1585: A corpse to Akkartil
1601: January 10, 1200
1616: Experiments in hyperspace
1625: Message from ES
1632: Message from the space-time fold
1639: Signals from NGC 6503
1647: The last blow
1661: Tabu Planet Shaft

Atlan series of magazines (1972–1984)

67: Planet of the Superfluous
73: The billion-dollar project
74: The crooks empire
84: The soulless
90: City in the deep sea
95: The man who came from below
103: Planet of the Spiders
107: Peace to Feman
113: The android's revenge
119: The plasma mutant
121: The threshold to nothing
129: Emperor of the Milky Way
136: The image machine
163: The secret of Gostacker
219: The underworld of Varlakor
229: The secret of Perpandron
241: Staff of Power
250: The prisoners of Arkon
257: The hour of the doppelganger
268: The plague ship
280: Cerrgoor Agent School
308: City of Robots
321: The Secret of the Ice Citadel
332: The helmsman of Pthor
344: In the realm of tyrants
353: The Cripple of Arsyhk
363: The watchman's call
372: Odin's legacy
385: Assassination attempt on Urgan
518: The Lord in the Domes
530: The realm of the Roxharen
538: In the ice desert of Worisan IV
540: The sage of Break-2
549: In the realm of the giants
561: Landscape in nowhere
567: Comet alarm
586: Rescue operation for Chybrain
597: The planet wall
608: The Mental Relay
618: The researchers' planetoid
629: The spirit of positronics
642: Ticker
653: Shipwreck on Urab
687: The Destruction Squad

Planetary novels (1964–1994)

2: The great thinker of Gol
6: The robot's daughter
13: Star Colony Troy
21: The Deadly Paradise
24: Builder of the Cosmos
29: The strangers from the micro-nebula
39: Bombs on Karson
54: The monster brain
61: The Planet King
66: supernova
105: Signals on channel eight
117: Our man in space
123: The solar power plant
126: Focal Point Vega
129: The invasion does not take place
131: PSI department
134: The Parachron Assassination
136: Slaves of the Computer
139: The sun spirits
143: The man in the mask
150: The last courier
157: The man out of nowhere
164: The Olympus caves
176: Spy of the Star Power
183: The Oberon case
191: Ghost ship CREST IV
204: Sons of the League
207: The Westrak plot
211: The drug planet
219: Messenger of the Immortal
225: Ice World Cyrglar
257: Slaves of the Orion Nebula
284: The Sirens of Dhatabaar
292: The terrible hunter
302: The Star Dreamers
309: The Jewel of Amringhar
315: Duel of the Querions
327: I, the Cantaro
348: The Cosmic Messenger
358: The Lord of the Seventh Day
361: Muru, the indomitable
372: The Board of Four

Terra Astra

105: Battle of the Androids
125: Zarastra - the sorceress
134: The Planet King
145: The Hyenas of Sacanor
196: A planet disappears
199: The hypno slaves
202: In a strange galaxy
205: Point painter secret base
208: Enterprise hibernation
211: The world of silicos
239: The warrior with the flaming sword
265: The class of alphas
275: From the depths of the earth
292: 2x Mister Beeches?
312: The giant brain
338: 2x Professor Manstein
344: The dark cloud
348: The last spaceship
352: The Stranger from Royale
357: Under the spell of the red dwarfs
362: Planet of the Ghosts
394: The rats
402: Project Ranger
418: The Plasma Hell
434: The Star Slayers
442: The star of the lonely
450: The dictator of Tittakat

Terra utopian novels

99: Time like sand
109: The fog eats them all
119: The creatures of the Palin
122: Spiders from Space
129: 110,000 years later
139: Campaign of the believers
146: Solar death squad
157: The world of origin
164: 2 x Professor Manstein
171: The Bluestar Prince (1)
172: The Bluestar Prince (2)
179: Average on Antares
185: The Second Creation (1)
186: The Second Creation (2)
193: people between time
198: From the depths of the earth
205: The giant brain
212: The class of alphas
259: Project Ranger
289: The rats
300: The plasma hell
302: The Riddle of the Universe (1)
303: The Riddle of the Universe (2)
346: The Star Slayers
357: The star of the lonely
372: The dictator of Tittakat
456: In the mask of a robot
544: Mars - the world of puzzles

War of the Milky Way

224: (1) A planet disappears
227: (2) The hypno slaves
230: (3) In a strange galaxy
233: (4) Point Maler secret base
236: (5) Enterprise hibernation
239: (6) The world of silicos

The long way to earth

317: (1) The dark cloud
320: (2) The last spaceship
324: (3) The Stranger from Royale
327: (4) Under the spell of the red dwarfs
330: (5) Planet of the Ghosts

Utopia Classics

11: The riddle of the universe
18: The city of billions
26: Bluff of the millennia
33: The Spaceship of the Damned
42: Ring planet in NGC 3031
48: The dictator of the world
51: Die Zeitstrasse (1983), six stories on the phenomenon “time”, including Kunersdorf , Poor Paul and Methusalah
61: Time like sand
72: The fog eats them all

Utopia large band (as Cecil O. Mailer)

152: Ordinal number 201

Utopia Science Fiction (as Cecil O. Mailer)

224: 2x Mr. Beeches
228: volcano versus earth
232: The Union of 2000 Worlds
237: Mysterious meteor
247: sabotage with fire water
251: Meeting point future
281: The great tunnel

ZbV series

19: Godapol replenishment base (with KH Scheer)
21: Mars supply ALPHA VI (with KH Scheer)
26: Safety factor III (with KH Scheer)
31: Zonta norm illegal (with KH Scheer)

literature

Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 280 f.
Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , pp. 692-694.
John Clute : Mahr, Kurt. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.

Web links

Literature by and about Kurt Mahr in the catalog of the German National Library
Kurt Mahr in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
Works by and about Kurt Mahr at Open Library
Kurt Mahr in Perrypedia
Kurt Mahr in Fantastic Fiction (English)

Individual evidence

^ Johnny Bruck : Cover picture for: Robert Feldhoff : Möbius, Perry Rhodan No. 1.700, Pabel-Moewig, Rastatt, March 1994. (View of the cover picture.)

personal data
SURNAME	Mahr, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mahn, Klaus (real name); Mailer, Cecil O. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	June 27, 1993
Place of death	Florida

[PR1700-1] Johnny Bruck : Cover picture for: Robert Feldhoff : Möbius, Perry Rhodan No. 1.700, Pabel-Moewig, Rastatt, March 1994. (View of the cover picture.)