Norbert Stöbe

Norbert Stöbe (born October 25, 1953 in Troisdorf ) is a German translator and science fiction writer .

Life

Norbert Stöbe first studied ethnology and sociology in Bonn. After training as a chemical-technical assistant in Reutlingen, he studied chemistry at the RWTH in Aachen from 1977 to 1988. In 1982 he started writing fiction texts. From 1989 he worked at the Institute of Textile Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University, while he also began working as a translator, which he deepened in 1995 through further training in the college of translators.

Stöbe translated works by James Rollins , Alastair Reynolds , Ken MacLeod , Philip K. Dick and Patrick Woodrow into German. He received the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis twice , in 1988 for his novel New York is heavenly , and in 1995 for his story Der Durst der Stadt . His short story Ten Points was awarded the German Science Fiction Prize in 1992 . After his early SF novels, he has only published contemporary texts since 1995. It was not until 2009 that numerous stories and narratives appeared again in magazines and as an e-book, followed by the SF novel Morgenröte by Heyne in 2014 .

Stöbe has lived in Stolberg - Dorff since 2005 .

Works (selection)

• Spielzeit , Roman, Heyne, Munich 1986
• New York is heavenly , Roman, Fabylon, Munich 1988
• Nameless , novel, Heyne, Munich 1989
• The way down , Roman, Heyne, Munich 1991
• Dawn , Roman, Heyne, Munich 2014
• Kolonie , Roman, Heyne, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-31800-7

Translations (selection)

• The second game of Ken Grimwood , 1994
• Das kleine Land (OT: Little Country by Charles de Lint , published in two parts by Heyne Verlag 1995)
  1. The hidden people
  2. The forgotten music
• The Blood of the Roses by Tanith Lee , 1995
  1. The dark angel
  2. The god of the forest
• Mirages of Paula Volsky , 1997
• Barbarian Trilogy by Sean Russell , 2000/2001
  1. The enlightened one
  2. Cloud collector
  3. The golden khan
• Operation Elite by Matthew Reilly , 2005
• The Oracle from the Mountains by Philip K. Dick , 2008, new edition 2014
• Die Flut (OT: Down the Flood by Kenneth Abel ), published by Rowohlt in 2009

Prizes and awards

• Bertelsmann Prize 1985
• The 1988 Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for New York is heavenly
• German Science Fiction Prize 1992 for ten points
• Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 1995 for The Thirst of the City

literature

• Thomas Tilsner: New York is heavenly , in: The Science Fiction Year 1989 (Vol. 4), edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-03139-3 , pp. 582-584.

Web links

• Literature by and about Norbert Stöbe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Norbert Stöbe in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Homepage of Norbert Stöbe