Malte S. Sembten

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Malte S [chulz]. Sembten (born July 1, 1965 in Marburg an der Lahn ; † April 22, 2016 there ) was a German writer , translator , editor and illustrator mainly of works of uncanny fantasy.

Life

Malte S. Sembten was born in Marburg an der Lahn in 1965. He attended a Catholic grammar school in Hessen, studied at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and then worked in the advertising industry in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main . His uncle was the poet Paulus Böhmer .

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An admirer of Poe , Lovecraft and Howard since early youth , he came into contact with the fantasy and horror fandom in the eighties and then wrote and drew for numerous publications of the First German Fantasy Club , but also for the club magazine of the German Sherlock -Holmes Society. During this time, he met Uwe Voehl , Jörg Kastner and Uwe Sommerlad . In 1990 he published his first fantastic story in the paperback Little Ease, edited by Carsten Scheibe . In the following years, together with Voehl and Sommerlad, Sembten published four editions of the horror fanzine Necropolitan , which, however, did not survive the death of the amateur print media in the 1990s, and edited a double issue of Magira - also with Voehl and Rainer F. Engel . Sembten's first collection of fantastic short stories, Hippocratic Faces , was published in 1996 by Edition Metzengerstein. In 1998, Sembten received the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for his story Blind Date .

Works (selection)

  • Hippocratic faces , short stories, ISBN 3-932320-00-X , Edition Metzengerstein, Kerpen, 1996
  • Variations in night gray and flesh red , short stories, ISBN 3-9803027-8-4 , Verlag Robert Richter, 1997
  • The hand grenade of God, or: Murphy and the diskette of the Marquis de Sade , Novelle, in: Malte S. Sembten et al: Die Handgranate Gottes , Murphy Vol. 3, ISBN 3-932171-52-7 , Blitz-Verlag, 1999
  • Those Finding a Bad End , Stories, ISBN 3-932442-01-6 , Verlag Robert Richter, 2000
  • The lurking library , Roman (under the pseudonym Rüdiger Silber), in: Voehl / Silber / Vandis: Geschwisterblut , Coco Zamis Vol. 13, Zaubermond-Verlag, 2006
  • Sembten's disease , short stories, ISBN 3-932442-07-5 , Verlag Robert Richter, 2007
  • Second Hand Nightmares , Novelle, ISBN 978-3-934273-71-9 , Verlag Lindenstruth, Giessen, 2009
  • Dhormenghruul , 10 stories, ISBN 978-3-938411-24-7 , with 4 full-page b / w illustrations by Björn Ian Craig, Eloy Edictions, Augsburg 2012
  • Mask shops . The best horror stories by Malte S. Sembten, ISBN 978-3-942396-89-9 , edited by Hardy Kettlitz, with 14 full-page b / w illustrations and a frontispiece by Fabian Fröhlich, Golkonda Verlag, Berlin 2013
  • 6 types of death , horror stories, ISBN 978-1523636433 , Edition Bärenklau, Oberkrämer 2015
  • Fischmund (with Uwe Voehl), novella, with illustrations by Jörg Neidhardt, Edition CL, Neustadt 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Sembten, Malte S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sembten, Malte Schulz (full name); Silber, Rüdiger (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2016
Place of death Marburg on the Lahn