Oskar Hoffmann (Author)

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Oskar Hoffmann (born October 29, 1866 in Gotha ; † December 21, 1928 in Wiesbaden ) was a German author of novels and essays in the adventurous, utopian-technical field.

Life

After his youth in Halle and a traineeship in a Berlin bookstore, Hoffmann continued his autodidactic training and in the course of his life he became the author of several popular scientific works (e.g. inventions and discoveries in all areas of science and technology, Radebeul and Leipzig: FE Bilz , undated [around 1900] and The illustrated book of technology. Berlin: Neuer Allgemeine Verlag, undated [around 1913]) and essays and, above all, several adventurous utopian-technical novels. The folk literature researcher Heinz J. Galle, with reference to textual indications (e.g. similar images of a spacecraft, thematizing the "dead point" between the earth and the moon as a place of danger) even advocates the thesis that Hoffmann had at least some volumes of the 1908 until about 1911/12 published utopian-technical booklet novel series Der Luftpirat and his dirigible airship , and mentions that the present book was also published as a delivery novel in ten booklets.

Works

  • popular science works
    • Inventions and discoveries in all fields of science and technology. Radebeul and Leipzig: FE Bilz, undated [around 1900]
    • The illustrated book of technology. Berlin: Neuer Allgemeine Verlag, undated [approx. 1913]
  • utopian novels
    • Mac Milford's Travels in the Universe. From Terra to Luna or among the Selenites. Paper mill: A. Weller & Co, 1902
    • Conquering the air. Cultural novel from 1940. Berlin and Leipzig: Hermann Seemann Nachf., Undated (1902)
    • Among Martians. Narrative. Breslau: Schlesische Verlags-Anstalt v. S. Scottlander, 1905
    • The gold trust. International financial novel. Berlin and Leipzig: Hermann Seemann Nachf., Undated (1907)
    • Conqueror of nature. Fantasy novel. Berlin and Leipzig: Hermann Seemann Nachf., Undated (1908)
    • The fourth dimension. Fantasy novel. Berlin and Leipzig: Hermann Seemann Nachf., Undated (1909)
    • Fred W. Hamilton [pseudonym]: Ypsilon's Frozen Electricity. The novel of a fantastic invention. Berlin: Dr. Potthoff & Co., 1911.

literature

  • German Literature Lexicon. The 20th Century , Vol. 19, 2013, Column 398. ISBN 978-3-11-023165-6
  • Henning Franke: Hoffmann, Oskar . 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. 343–352

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Heinz J. Galle: People's books and book novels. A foray through 100 years of entertainment literature , 1998, p. 83f.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Oskar von; Hamilton, Fred. W. (pseudonym); Hamilton, WW (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1928
Place of death Wiesbaden