Thomas Le Blanc

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Thomas Le Blanc (born August 13, 1951 in Wetzlar ) is a German author and publisher .

Life

After studying mathematics, physics and pedagogy in Giessen , he passed the first state examination in 1976 and the second state examination in 1978 and then worked until 1987 as a teacher and finally head of physics at a comprehensive school in the Giessen district. At the same time and afterwards he worked as a freelance journalist and cultural consultant, wrote a large number of articles for daily and weekly newspapers (especially for DIE WELT , in DARMSTÄDTER ECHO he had a monthly column for 37 years). He has also worked as an author, editor and field editor for book publishers. For Karl May Verlag he developed a fantasy continuation of Karl May's oriental adventures in 2016, which he also publishes there.

In 1987 he founded the Fantastic Library Wetzlar , which with over 280,000 works is unique in Germany and now the largest of its kind in the world. He has been organizing the Wetzlar Days of Fantasticism since 1981 . He is also the editor of the series and materials of the Fantastic Library Wetzlar , the series "Reading Promotion" of the Center for Literature Wetzlar and the short story series Fantastic Miniatures , which is also published at the Fantastic Library. In 1990 he was awarded the German Fantasy Prize , and in 2017 at the Book Fair Congress with the BuCon Prize of Honor 2016 for his life's work.

He is the board member of the Fantastic Library Wetzlar Foundation, as well as the developer and head of the interdisciplinary futurology project Future Life with numerous studies, lectures and workshops for large German companies.

Works (selection)

  • Bonn reasons why everything goes wrong, what can go wrong! : Murphy's Bonn Laws . Munich 1986.
  • Murphy's Laws for Civil Servants. Munich 1988.
  • Robots and time machines: five essays on science fiction . Wetzlar 1993.
  • Where Johann Wolfgang once lay in the grass: Goethe and Lotte in Wetzlar: A personal search for traces . Wetzlar 1999. Extended new edition 2009.
  • Death and the Mennyms: a melancholy doll life . 2004.
editor
  • The others. Science fiction stories from Germany. Heyne, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-30563-9
  • Start to new worlds. A selection of the best German science fiction stories. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, ISBN 3-451-18986-0
  • Star anthologies (Antares. Betelgeuse. Canopus ff). Goldmann, Munich 1980–1985 (10 volumes)
  • Goldmann Fantasy Tome II . Goldmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-442-23823-4
  • The most exciting space stories . Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-517-00816-8
  • Series of publications and materials from the Fantastic Library in Wetzlar . Wetzlar, 1993 ff. (Currently 74 volumes)
  • Reading promotion . Wetzlar 2003–2010 (10 volumes)
  • Fantastic miniatures . Wetzlar, 2011 ff. (Currently 27 volumes)
  • Karl May's Magical Orient . Bamberg: Karl May Verlag, 2017 ff. (Currently 8 novels + 1 anthology)

literature

Web links

Commons : Thomas Le Blanc  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl May Publishing House: Karl Mays Magischer Orient
  2. ↑ Fantastic miniatures
  3. ↑ BuCon honorary award 2016 at www.buchmessecon.de
  4. ^ Future Life
personal data
SURNAME Le Blanc, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franzke, Ingrid Leona (pseudonym); Franzke, IL (pseudonym); Franzke, J. Leona (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar