Reinmar Cunis
Reinmar Cunis (born August 8, 1933 in Bremen ; † April 16, 1989 ) was a German sociologist , journalist and author of science fiction novels.
Life
Cunis completed a bank apprenticeship, then studied sociology , psychology and economics in Berlin and Cologne . He received his doctorate in 1964 with a thesis in sociology on future military constitutions in democratic industrialized countries and worked for the NDR .
At the age of 17 he published his first short story and then wrote for newspapers and magazines. In 1966, his first audio picture Nightmares and Ideal Pictures was broadcast on NDR radio. Cunis also made television reports on economic and socio-political issues. For several years, Cunis was a project group leader in the television game department of the North German Radio.
His first science fiction novel was broadcast live in 1978. It is about the visit of an alien , which, however, is not noticed by the blind press. Cunis' second novel Zeitsturm came out in 1979. He deals with the subject of time travel using drugs and is influenced by the work of authors as diverse as Philip K. Dick and JG Ballard . Cunis' favorite subjects included extrasensory perception , teleportation , psychedelic drugs , psi phenomena, and the afterlife .
In 1986 he received the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for the short story Northern Lights .
Works
- Novels
- Live broadcast. Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-30503-5 . Also in: The Eye of the Phoenix. Edited by Wolfgang Jeschke . Heyne, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-453-31223-6 .
- Time storm. Heyne, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-30585-X .
- The Mols incident. Heyne, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-453-30687-2 .
- When the crab tree blooms. Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-00416-7 .
- Short story collection
- End of everyday life. Heyne, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-453-30863-8 .
- Short stories
- Fontanel (1980)
- Principle of Nonviolence (1980)
- Three weeks in September (1981)
- Cancer (1981)
- Father's Syndrome (1981)
- Craps Game (1981)
- The God of the Plague (1981)
- Paramat 4 (1982)
- A Story I Sometimes Dream About (1982)
- Ogun for a White (1982)
- A Case for the Button Moulder (1982)
- Free shift (1982)
- Hanni Bojens (1982)
- Pelargonium mental (1982)
- Son for son (1982)
- Biocon (1983)
- Scream Freedom Scream (1983)
- The Moment To War (1984)
- The Kanzerpaten Uprising (1984)
- Chopin (1984)
- A Heartbeat Long (1984)
- Unpredictable (1985)
- Aurora Borealis (1985)
- Jupiter (1985)
- Vryheit do ik ju openbar (1986)
- Heinrich Odenheimer's Introduction to General Dilatation Theory (1988)
- Testosterone (1989)
- Burt Lancaster's very last role (1989)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , pp. 110-111.
- Michael K. Iwoleit : Reinmar Cunis. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1987 . Heyne, Munich 1987, pp. 87-95.
- Michael K. Iwoleit: When the crab tree blooms. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1988 . Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-00983-5 , pp. 627-632.
- Michael K. Iwoleit: An obituary for Reinmar Cunis. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1990 . Heyne, Munich 1990, pp. 69-72.
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinmar Cunis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reinmar Cunis in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Reinmar Cunis at Open Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cunis, Reinmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist, journalist and writer of science fiction novels |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1989 |