Lothar Weise (Author)

Lothar Weise (* 1931 in Ebersbach ; † 1966 ) was a German writer and science fiction author.

Life

After the Second World War, Weise did an apprenticeship as a weaver and became a textile engineer, before devoting himself full-time to writing from 1962.

First he published three short stories and one novel, which he had written together with the older author Kurt Herwarth Ball . He later published two novels that were reissued several times under his own name. All works appeared in the specialized series “ The New Adventure ” and “ Exciting Narrated ” by the Berlin publishing house Neues Leben . After his untimely death, another story, composed with Ball, was published, “In the ice of the comet”.

bibliography

• with Kurt Herwarth Ball: Alarm on Einstein station. Narrative. Illustrations by Günter Goeltzer . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1957 ( The New Adventure # 119 and # 120).
• with Kurt Herwarth Ball: Signals from Venus. Narrative. Illustrations by Gerhard Goßmann . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1958 ( The New Adventure # 134).
• with Kurt Herwarth Ball: Fire in the moon observatory. Narrative. Illustrations by Hans-Hermann Schlicker . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1959 ( The New Adventure # 161).
• with Kurt Herwarth Ball: Atomic fire over the Pacific. Novel. Illustrations by Karl Fischer . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1959 ( Excitingly told # 31). 2nd edition 1960.
• The secret of the Transpluto . Scientific and fantastic novel. Illustrations by Eberhard Binder . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1962 ( Excitingly told # 44). Last 4th edition 1968.
• Marsgibberellin company. Scientific and fantastic novel. Illustrations by Eberhard Binder. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1964 ( Excitingly told # 56). Last 4th edition 1970.
• with Kurt Herwarth Ball: In the ice of the comet. Narrative. Illustrations by Hans Räde . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1968 ( The New Adventure # 270).

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 444 f.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 1033 f.
• Hartmut Mechtel : Lothar Weise. In: Erik Simon and Olaf R. Spittel (eds.): Science-fiction in the GDR. Authors and works; a lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , pp. 273–275, pp. 332–333
• Walter Tölg (arr.): Bibliography: 1946–1982. Verlag Neues Leben Berlin, 1983, pp. 417-418.
• Erik Simon : Wise, Lothar . In: Lexicon of science fiction literature since 1900. With a look at Eastern Europe. Edited by Christoph F. Lorenz, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5 , pp. 557–558.

Web links

• Lothar way in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Lothar Weise in the catalog of the German National Library