Rudolf Drößler

Rudolf Drößler (born May 18, 1934 in Zeitz ) is a German non-fiction author and science journalist .

Life

Rudolf Drößler spent his childhood in Zeitz, where he also graduated from high school in 1952. After studying German in Leipzig until 1956 , he was a teacher at the extended secondary school "Geschwister Scholl" (today's Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium ) in Zeitz for many years . In 1963 he passed his state examination in astronomy at the Pedagogical University in Potsdam. For many years he was a consultant for astronomy in what was then the Zeitz district.

In addition to his professional activity, he conducted archaeological and cultural-historical studies. During his voluntary work as a floor and monument conservationist , he acquired extensive knowledge in the areas that later became the subject of his works.

After his first successful books, he became known from 1975 as a freelance science journalist and non-fiction author in the fields of astronomy, archeology and cultural history . He was critical of astrology and other pseudosciences . Most of these works have also been published in other countries (and languages).

In addition, he created plays and other works of regional importance. In 1988 Rudolf Drößler published a biographical novel about Otto Hauser , a Swiss archaeologist who got caught up in the conflict between Germany and France during the First World War .

Together with Manuela Freyberg he also manages the private scientific collection 'Otto Hauser'.

From 1991 to 1997 Rudolf Drößler was town clerk and town chronicler of his hometown Zeitz . During these years and afterwards he wrote numerous extensive publications on regional history.

Works

• We watch the sky. 1963.
• The Venus of the Ice Age. 1967, DNB 456489576 .
• When the stars were gods Prisma-Verlag Zenner and Gürchott , Leipzig 1976, ISBN 3-404-64051-9 .
• Ice Age art from Spain to Siberia. 1980.
• Bridges to the past. 1980, ISBN 3-332-00324-0 .
• Planets, signs of the zodiac, horoscopes. 1984, ISBN 3-451-04139-1 .
• Cultures from a bird's eye view. 1987, ISBN 3-89340-001-X .
• Escape from paradise. 1988, ISBN 3-354-00168-2 .
• Astronomy in stone. 1990, ISBN 3-926642-25-4 .
• with Manuela Freyberg: palmistry, card slapping, commuting. 1990, ISBN 3-451-04314-9 .
• Incarnation. 1993, ISBN 3-332-00511-1 .
• 2000 years of the end of the world. 1999, ISBN 3-429-02097-2 .
• ZEITZ - history of the city. Volume I, 2004.
• ZEITZ - history of the city. Volume II, 2009, ISBN 978-3-937517-87-2 .
• ZEITZ - history of the city. Volume III, 2017, ISBN 978-3-957410-58-0 .

Awards

• "Merit Medal of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany" for services to urban and regional research 2002

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Drößler in the catalog of the German National Library