Knight Roland
Ritter Roland is a booklet series of which 30 episodes were published by Bastei-Verlag between 1982 and 1983 .
Authors
The authors of the series came from different fields. While many wrote primarily in the horror and crime scene, there were also authors whose main creative field was sea adventures, science fiction , westerns or homeland novels .
The following authors were involved in detail: Ekkehard Reinke under real names, Hans Peter Weißfeld as Götz Altenburg , Hans Wolf Sommer as Gunther Herbst , Joachim Honnef under real names and Rainer Delfs as Florian Philipp .
action
The series is about Roland, a young knight at the court of King Arthur. The responsible editor was Hans-Ulrich Steffan.
The hero of the series is said to have 50 adventures to be included in the round table. Because of the end of the series, he didn't succeed. Novels that have already been written but have not been published have been published together with a few exposés in a special volume of the Ersten Deutschen Fantasyclub e. V. reprinted a few years later.
The world largely corresponded to the Arthurian legend , but was moved to the High Middle Ages . The king was renamed Arthus, but continued to reside in Camelot - which, however, was here on the Lower Rhine , northwest of Xanten . In this way the Roland saga was also woven in. If Roland was the nephew and paladin of Charlemagne there, only the time and place was taken over and linked to the Arthurian legend.
The subject was quite mixed. Roland had to fight against other knights as well as against Vikings and gangs of thieves. But also classic figures of fantasy like dragons and dwarfs , especially Laurin, were among his opponents. Amorous adventures were not neglected either, as he is always ready to help a maiden in need - and to spend the night with her.
Published novels
- Notebook novels
| No. | author | title | year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Ekkehard Reinke | The Xanten tournament | 1982 |
| 02 | Ekkehard Reinke | In the gun tent | 1982 |
| 03 | Ekkehard Reinke | The fight with the dragon | 1982 |
| 04 | Ekkehard Reinke | The Vikings are coming | 1982 |
| 05 | Ekkehard Reinke | Caliban's gold pot | 1982 |
| 06 | Gunther Herbst | The divided ducal crown | 1982 |
| 07 | Joachim Honnef | Raid at dawn | 1982 |
| 08 | Joachim Honnef | Gorgar the tyrant | 1982 |
| 09 | Götz Altenburg | The false king Arthur | 1982 |
| 10 | Joachim Honnef | The victory celebration of the bandits | 1982 |
| 11 | Gunther Herbst | Peasant uprising | 1982 |
| 12 | Gunther Herbst | The outcast daughter of the duke | 1982 |
| 13 | Joachim Honnef | The red-haired babe | 1982 |
| 14th | Gunther Herbst | The bloody countess | 1982 |
| 15th | Götz Altenburg | Camelot in pirate hands | 1982 |
| 16 | Joachim Honnef | The bear trap | 1982 |
| 17th | Joachim Honnef | Hasso's wild horde | 1982 |
| 18th | Joachim Honnef | Wedding with the murderer | 1982 |
| 19th | Gunther Herbst | The oath of vengeance | 1982 |
| 20th | Gunther Herbst | The hunt for the black stone | 1982 |
| 21st | Joachim Honnef | Wittich - the horror of the Hotzenwald | 1982 |
| 22nd | Gunther Herbst | The blood beast | 1982 |
| 23 | Joachim Honnef | An angel as bait | 1982 |
| 24 | Joachim Honnef | Treason! | 1982 |
| 25th | Florian Philipp | The blood wedding | 1982 |
| 26th | Götz Altenburg | In the intoxication of power | 1982 |
| 27 | Gunther Herbst | The duel over the count's daughter | 1983 |
| 28 | Ekkehard Reinke | Roland and the assassins | 1983 |
| 29 | Ekkehard Reinke | Roland's defeat | 1983 |
| 30th | Ekkehard Reinke | The battle for Camelot | 1983 |
- EDFC paperbacks
All booklets appear in one book. The numbers correspond to the planned issue number.
| No. | author | title | year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | Joachim Honnef | The pack of the merciless | 1996 |
| 32 | Florian Philipp | The fight for mist well | 1996 |
| 33 | Florian Philipp | The beautiful Viking | 1996 |
| 34 | Joachim Honnef | Under the spell of the beautiful witch | 1996 |
| 35 | Florian Philipp | The flaming cross | 1996 |
| 32 | Hans-Ulrich Stefan | Knight Roland 32 {Exposé} | 1996 |
| 33 | Hans-Ulrich Stefan | Knight Roland 33 {Exposé} | 1996 |
| 35-39 | Hans-Ulrich Stefan | Knight Roland 35-39 {synopsis} | 1996 |
literature
- Heinz J. Galle: Folk books and book novels. Forays into popular entertainment literature for over 100 years . Volume 1: The boom after 1945 . DvR, Lüneburg 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3232-2 .
- Thomas König: Geisterwald catalog. Bibliography of the German booklet novels . Volume 2: Fairy Tales, Legends & Fantasy . König, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-9807608-2-0 .
- Jörg Weigand: pseudonyms. A lexicon , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6906-X .
- R. Gustav Gaisbauer (Ed.): Knight Roland. five unpublished novels , EDFC, Passau 1996, ISBN 3-924443-88-2 .