Oliver Henkel

Oliver Henkel

Oliver Henkel (* 9. November 1973 in Lübeck ) is a German science fiction - writers .

So far, Oliver Henkel has mainly written alternative world stories . His main job is in the IT industry. Henkel lives in Lübeck (as of 2006).

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His first novel, The Time Machine of Charlemagne , was published in 2001. It deals with a world in which the Western Roman Empire did not perish, but in which it still existed in 796.

The novel Kaisertag followed in 2002, set in Germany in 1988. However, the First World War never took place and the political situation is almost as it was in 1914.

For these two works he was awarded the German Science Fiction Prize in 2002 and 2003 .

This was followed in 2004 by Wechselwelten , a short story volume with seven stories, in which various alternatives to the real story are told. So Jesus is pardoned by Pontius Pilate , Alexander the Great does not die in 323 BC. In Babylon , and Abraham Lincoln travels to a South Carolina that became the Prussian province of Karolina during the American War of Independence .

In 2005 the story of Adolf Hitler followed on an election campaign in America . She takes up the idea of ​​the Prussian province of Karolina again, Hitler goes on an election campaign trip there.

The novel In the Year of Ragnarök from 2009 tells a spy story in a Germany in which the Morgenthau Plan has largely been implemented.

In 2012, Oliver Henkel revisited the Prussian province of Karolina in the novel Die Fahrt des Leviathan , this time at the time of the American Civil War .

Works

• Charlemagne's time machine . Accra, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-8311-1661-X .
• Emperor day . Accra, Norderstedt 2002, ISBN 3-8311-4481-8 .
• Alternating worlds . Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1535-5 . (New edition by Atlantis Verlag Stolberg, 2014. ISBN 978-3-86402-106-0 )
• Adolf Hitler on election campaign in America . In: Helmuth W. Mommers (ed.): The legend of Eden and other visions . Shayol, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-926126-52-3 .
• In the year Ragnarök , Atlantis, Stolberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941258-05-1 .
• The ride of the Leviathan , Atlantis, Stolberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-941258-26-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Henkel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Oliver Henkel in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Oliver Henkel at Open Library
• Homepage of Oliver Henkel