Rainar Nitzsche

Rainar Nitzsche

Rainar Nitzsche (born December 27, 1955 in Berlin- Zehlendorf) is a German publisher and author of poetry, short prose, fantastic novels and non-fiction books about spiders as well as being a photographer and artist.

Live and act

Nitzsche studied biology and did his doctorate on the behavior of the bride gift spider (also known as cunning spider and predatory spider). The title of his diploma thesis was catching prey and "bride present" from the predatory spider Pisaura mirabilis and the dissertation dealt with "bride present" and reproduction from Pisaura mirabilis, including comparative studies on Dolomedes fimbriatus and Thaumasia uncata . Then Nitzsche retrained to become a bookseller and founded his own publishing house in 1989. He published his own texts for the first time in 1982 at Gauke Verlag , in 1985 in a joint book with Manfred Dechert, Christof Graf and Wolfgang Marschall at Christoph Graf Verlag (title: 53 texts), and subsequently in literary magazines and anthologies. All later books (until 2015, last title Spinnen-Sex and more ) were published by the company. Since 2015 he has been publishing his PFAD novels as e-books at neobooks and as paperbacks at BoD, where his new art books have also been published as hardcover and new editions of fantastic and lyrical titles as paperbacks. Since 2009 he has been going public with his photographic and artistic work (photo art books, spider art photo exhibition, gallery on the Internet). Since 2010 he has been teaching spiders at primary and secondary schools. He has lived in Kaiserslautern in the Palatinate since 1974 and has not only been a member of spider societies (DeArGe, AraGes, ISA), but also of Marfanhilfe, as he himself is Marfan from birth .

Publications

Von Nitzsche has published the following books under his own name:

Nonfiction books about spiders

• The Spider's Gift (1999)
• Be a Spider (2004)
• Spider reflections in human eyes (2005, new edition of "Spider sein")
• Catch of prey and "bride present" from the predatory spider Pisaura mirabilis (CL.) (Araneae: Pisauridae) (2006)
• »Bride gift« and reproduction in Pisaura mirabilis, including comparative studies on Dolomedes fimbriatus and Thaumasia uncata (Araneida: Pisauridae) (2006)
• The spider with the bride's present (2007, new edition of "The spider's bride's present")
• Get to know spiders (2012, paperback, e-book)
• Spinnen (2012, paperback, e-book)
• Learning to love spiders (2013, new edition of "Spinnen", paperback, e-book)
• Spider Sex and More (2015)
• Spiders (2018)
• Fear of spiders and their toxicity (2019)

religion

• GOD and the Great - Little Gods (2019)

Fantastic - fantasy, horror, science fiction - and art

The path worlds - novels about Manfred the magician

• The Shining Path of the Magician (Fantasy Novel, PATH 1) (1998, E-Book 2015, Paperback 2016)
• Changes of the Three (Fantasy Roman, PATH 2) (2004, E-Book 2015, Paperback 2017)
• Wüsten-Berges-Himmels-Weiten (Fantasy Roman, PATH 3) (2005, E-Book 2015, Paperback 2017)
• Ins All - Im Eins (Science-Fiction Novel, PATH 4) (2008, E-Book 2015, Paperback 2017)

Short short stories

• 53 (1985, together with Manfred Dechert , Christof Graf, Wolfgang Marschall)
• Call of the Moon (1992, eBook 2017, Paperback 2019)
• In the light of the full moon (1996, e-book 2017, paperback 2019)
• Mondin-Schein und Sein (2001, Mondinschein und Sein: E-Book 2017, Paperback 2019)
• ATON - Vater Sonn (2001, eBook 2017, Paperback 2019)
• Mirror worlds of your soul (2001, paperback and e-book 2016)
• Still the Stars Called Us (2001, eBook 2017, Paperback 2019)
• Of Angels, Eternity, and Enlightenment (2006, paperback and e-book 2016)
• Spinnentraumgespinste (2008, paperback and e-book 2019)
• The sleeper gets up from his dreams (2010, paperback and e-book 2017)

Poetry

• we - people of the earth (1982, paperback, e-book 2017)
• The Time of the Trees (1992, Paperback, 2017 eBook)
• OM or the noise of the apparent emptiness (1994, paperback, e-book 2017)
• Sound over the seas of time (1996, paperback, e-book 2017)
• Be Forever in Silence (2006, Paperback, eBook 2016, 2018)

art

• Art Worlds (2009)
• Natural Art Worlds (2009)
• Spider Art Worlds (2009)
• Spider Art Worlds 2 (2010)
• Fantastic Spider Worlds (2013)
• Aliens. Fantastic Beings From Here And There And Everywhere (2015)
• Spiders fantastically alienated (2016, German edition of "Fantastic Spider Worlds")
• Hell Art (2017, hardcover and e-book)
• Baumtraum (2017, hardcover and e-book)
• BuntBunt (2018, hardcover and e-book)

Olaf Olsen

Von Nitzsche published the following titles under the pseudonym Olaf Olsen:

• The Seas of Madness (2005, eBook 2017, Paperback 2019)
• Hell-Ride-Life-Dreams (2005, eBook 2017, Paperback 2019)
• IT Erupts From You (2006, eBook 2017, Paperback 2019)

editor

Anthologies

• The end of the tunnel. Fantastic Texts (1990)
• Fairy tale story. New Fantastic and Horror Stories (1994)

Authors

Nitzsche's publication of books by still unknown and well-known authors includes a .:

• Harald Braem : Big Spider - Little Spider
• Katja Bulling: Jädiasenn - through space and time
• Harald Fuchs: Born to sing
• Hardy Crueger: Divine Mead
• Jens Lossau , Jens Schumacher : Canon of Melancholy
• Berthold Mallmann: Waste
• Timothy McNeal : The Color of Sulfur, The Death of the Physicists, The Prince's Tomb, The ChronosChronics, Equinox, The VorholzFürstin, The PointZero Experiment, RheinhessenKelten, MillenniumMonster, Experiment 5
• Achim Mehnert : Huck-Huck the little dragon
• Franz Renner: Spiders tremendously - nice
• Günter Ruch : The color of the night
• Harald Scherschel: The first ascent of the book wall
• Norbert Sternmut : The timepiece

Nitzsche in anthologies

• 2000 Fantastic Anthology. Gerald Meyer.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainar Nitzsche in the catalog of the German National Library
• Facebook
• Gallery Fineartprint
• Artflakes gallery