Reinhard Rael Wissdorf

Reinhard Rael Wissdorf (* 1959 in Speyer ) is a German writer and musician.

Career

At the age of eleven, Wissdorf wrote and staged a small play during a summer vacation. Throughout his youth he wrote short stories and fantasy tales for friends and schoolmates. However, his career path initially led him to music. Wissdorf studied concert guitar and composition at the Academy for Tonkunst in Darmstadt, as well as electric guitar and improvisation at the Darmstadt Jazz Workshop with Eddy Marron and Peter Giger . 1982–83 he was a professional musician or stage musician a. a. active for the State Theater Darmstadt. He composed the stage music for a production by Heiner Müller's quartet for the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken and was also active in the Darmstadt rock scene.

In 1985 he turned back to writing. Until 1992 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Filmfaust and as a freelance editor for the magazines Skyline (Frankfurt am Main) and Accent (Konstanz). From 1993 to 1996 he was co-owner of a computer game forge in Frankfurt am Main and San Diego and wrote the story and music for the 3D shooter Skaphander . Together with his business partner JC Lotter, he published a non-fiction book about the game engine Acknex .
Since 1999 he has written two detective novels, various fantasy novels, several volumes of short stories and published two anthologies of Christmas crime novels (together with Belinda Rodik ). His satirical play, Job - a divine comedy , was premiered in 2008 by the Wasserturm-Theater in Cologne.

Rael Wissdorf is also active as a composer of film soundtracks for Machinimas . Among other things, he wrote and produced the soundtrack for the Machinima Misgiving by Glasz de Cuir, 2013.

Works (selection)

• Game studio 3D. Non-fiction . (with JC Lotter), tewi-Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-89362-438-4 .
• Shabu. Detective novel . Elefanten Press Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88520-910-1 .
• Downtown. Detective novel. (with Johann C. Lotter), Emons Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89705-202-4 .
• Christmas magic. Anthology . (Ed. With Belinda Rodik ), Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, ISBN 3-404-14630-1 .
• Sleep in heavenly peace. Anthology . (Ed. With B. Rodik), Wittig, Kiel 2003, ISBN 3-8048-4476-6 .
• Epilogue to Jack London “The Straitjacket” . Axel Dielmann Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-933974-08-9 .
• Phoenix Embers - Meditation . Audio CD. Isee New Media / Vistano, Frankfurt / M. 2006, EAN 4000098200241.
• Yanthalor. Fantasy novel . Metaworlds Publications, Ulm 2012, ISBN 978-1-4716-4778-9 .
• Hawks Effect: One Last Con. SciFi series. (with Nicholas Hede and Frank J. Williams III ), Trivocum Verlag, Egling 2017, ISBN 978-3-96111-460-3 .
• The Legacy of the Dragon Lord . A story of the cave world saga. Fantasy. Trivocum Verlag, Egling 2020, ISBN 978-3-946797-34-0

Awards

• Author award of the BvB Bergen-Enkheim, 1994
• 1st prize in the Machinima competition "Art of the Artists" by MachinUWA of the University of Western Australia, 2010.

Web links

• Lexicon of German crime fiction authors
• Homepage of the author
• "Job- A Divine Comedy"
• Hawks Effect press release