Peter Lorenz (Author)

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Peter Lorenz (born March 31, 1944 in Erfurt ; † November 20, 2009 ) was a German writer and photographer .

Life

In 1962 Peter Lorenz passed the Abitur at the GE Lessing- EOS in Erfurt and then began studying pedagogy with a focus on biology and chemistry at the PH Erfurt-Mühlhausen in Mühlhausen . In 1966 he was convicted of defamation of the state, whereupon from 1968 he took on several temporary jobs, including auxiliary fitter, auxiliary galvanizer, auxiliary mason and finally auxiliary teacher. From 1977 he worked as a freelance writer and wrote scientific utopian novels . In 1990 Lorenz returned to school. Since 1999 he has also published four illustrated books .

Peter Lorenz died on November 20, 2009 at the age of 65. He was buried in silence.

Activity as an author

For his first novel Homunculi (1978), Lorenz received the Debutant Award of the GDR Ministry of Culture the following year . This was followed in 1981 by quarantine in the cosmos , in which the increasing disillusionment with bureaucracy , sham democracy, absurd planned economy and social stagnation is expressed. The main actors Per and Lif Engen fail in the high-tech world, strictly organized by a single central computer and fully biologically “optimized”, and flee to that extraterrestrial, free-living and creative civilization that the central computer wanted to destroy for fear of change and progress. Also Action Earth 1988 expresses a barely coded criticism of the increasing bureaucratization. After the earth became uninhabitable, some people fled to survival islands scattered in space and others, the "terrats", established a rigid and strictly hierarchical society in corridor systems under the earth. Cross-border commuters from both worlds fail to recapture the earth on voracious animal-plant symbionts , indefinable, constantly changing, deadly clouds that do not obey any class or legal order.

Activity as a photographer

In the 70s and 80s, Lorenz developed a passion for nude photography . The images, although not very provocative, were an expression of the search for the essence of human beings and an authentic attitude towards life, especially in the later phase of the GDR, which so many cultural workers had to leave voluntarily or involuntarily. After the fall of the Wall, he rediscovered his interest. In 1999, for example, his first illustrated book Shaven Angels with nude photographs was published, followed by three more volumes.

Works

Science fiction stories
  • The standard chicken. In: From the diary of an ant , ed. v. Michael Szameit, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1985.
  • Career for 150. In: Tales of the Trödelmond , ed. v. Olaf Spittel, New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1990.
  • Jefferson. In: The island of time. SF stories from a country that once existed , ed. v. Olaf Spittel, New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1991.
Science fiction novels
  • Homunculi. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1978.
  • Quarantine in the cosmos. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1981.
  • Stowaways in room 100. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1986.
  • Action Earth. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1988.
Illustrated books
  • Shaven Angels. Edition Reuss, Aschaffenburg 1999.
  • Shaven Angels 2. ibid. 2000.
  • Shaven Angels 3rd ibid. 2002.
  • Shaven Angels 4th ibid. 2004.

literature

  • Karsten Kruschel : Peter Lorenz . In: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , pp. 194–197.
  • Karsten Kruschel: Lorenz, Peter . 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. 435–441.

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personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2009