Thomas RP Mielke

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Thomas RP Mielke in southern France doing research on the Avignon trilogy

Thomas Rudolf Peter Mielke (born March 12, 1940 in Detmold ) is a German writer in the field of science fiction and historical novels .

Life

Mielke was a full-time copywriter, concept developer and creative director in international advertising agencies for three decades . He was responsible for slogans such as “Berlin is doing well” or “Join us” in the first anti-AIDS campaign and, from his years in the general management of Ferrero in Pino Torinese / Italy, is one of the co-inventors of the children's surprise ice cream .

1960s

As a counterbalance to his job as an advertising manager, he wrote crime novels, science fiction and historical novels on the side. His first SF novel Enterprise Twilight appeared in 1960 under the pseudonym Mike Parnell . A few dozen more followed under the pseudonyms Michael C. Chester , Bert Floorman , Henry Ghost , Roy Marcus , Marc McMan , Marcus T. Orban , John Taylor and others. a.

Military service

In the documentary "Controlled Democracy?" Mielke talks about his time in the German Armed Forces, which began with training as an air traffic controller in Hanover. In the documentary "Land under Control - The History of Surveillance in the FRG", Mielke describes how he was involved in the massive opening of private letters from the GDR in a Hanoverian barracks.

“The [letters] never arrived. They were gone. The letters never reached their recipients, ”says Mielke. After an application for a secondary activity as a writer, he was transferred to the Troop for Psychological Struggle (see Troop for Operative Communication ). According to Mielke's description, military-critical and communist groups were observed there. "Back then we were always interested in both sides. Primarily, of course, for the left," Mielke describes his work.

1970s

Together with Rolf W. Liersch , Mielke developed the concept of the alternative science fiction series Die Terranauten in the mid-1970s .

1980s

In 1986 he received the Literature Prize of the Science Fiction Club Deutschland eV (from 1998 German Science Fiction Prize ) for the Politvision The day on which the wall broke over an unexpected peaceful fall of the wall and the reunification. The star wrote to the author: "The Berlin Wall is not an issue - and it will not be in the next 25 years."

2000s

In 2010 his from the Goethe Institute award winner Dr. Nabil Haffar , Roman Gilgamesh translated into Arabic , King of Uruk in Syria and other Arab countries, and thus returned to his origins.

The initials of his 2nd and 3rd first name RP stand, according to the legend (and expressly without a space in between) for pure fantasy . After several years in Husum, Hamburg and Turin, the author has lived in Berlin for decades . He is married and has four grown children.

Awards

bibliography

Science fiction

Book publications
  • as Roy Marcus: Beware of the restricted area. Balowa / Gebrüder Zimmermann (Balowa Espionage), 1961.
  • as Mike Parnell: Enterprise Twilight. Widukind / Gebrüder Zimmermann (Widukind Utopia top class), 1961.
  • as Roy Marcus: Treason was his last chance. Balowa / Gebrüder Zimmermann (Balowa Espionage), 1962.
  • Grand Orientale 3301. Heyne, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-30674-0 .
  • The Savior of Plants. Heyne, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-453-30771-2 .
  • The Sacriverse. Roman of a cathedral. Heyne, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-453-30933-2 .
  • The day the wall broke. Political thriller. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1985, ISBN 3-404-13024-3 .
  • The kidnapping of the seraglio. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986, ISBN 3-404-28138-1 .
  • Myths of the future. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1992, ISBN 3-404-24154-1 .
  • Hunted by humans. Das Beste (En route to the world of tomorrow # 133), 1992, ISBN 3-87070-443-8 .
  • The city in the stars. Das Beste (En route to tomorrow's world # 137), 1993, ISBN 3-87070-480-2 .
  • Order from the beyond. Schneekluth, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7951-1358-X .
  • The secret of the first planet. Schneekluth, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7951-1401-2 .
  • with Jürgen Grasmück: The hyenas of space. Mohlberg (Ad Astra # 3), 2007, ISBN 978-3-940181-14-5 .
Notebook novels
  • Reporters under a strange sun. Moewig (Terra Nova # 166), 1971.
  • as Marc McMan: Barnavaal Company. Andromeda Science Fiction # 14, 1972.
Magic circle science fiction (notebook novels)

Unless otherwise noted, always as Marcus T. Orban.

  • 2: The Psychotechnicians (1966, as Thomas RP Mielke)
  • 3: Errors excepted (1966, as Thomas RP Mielke)
  • 9: Home Is Nothing (1966, as Michael C. Chester)
  • 10: Laportes Planet (1966. as Michael C. Chester)
  • 13: Galaxy Agent Omega 8 (1966)
  • 16: The Time Trap (1966)
  • 19: Rushed from Star to Star (1966)
  • 24: The Necropolis of Capelia (1967)
  • 25: Escape from the Dark World (1967)
  • 28: Night of the Sun Wolves (1967)
  • 33: Rally to the Hell's Star (1967)
  • 43: The Gravonauts (1967)
  • 44: The Last of the Gravonauts (1967)
  • 50: Lost in Hyperspace (1967)
  • 58: Extreme World (1967)
  • 63: The Galactic Hand Ax (1967)
  • 67: Decision on Katabor (1968)
  • 73: Recruits for Terra (1968)
  • 77: The Twelve and a Half Man Law (1968)
  • 102: Hunted by Humans (1970, as Thomas RP Mielke)
  • 105: Orders from Beyond (1970)
  • 108: With the Arms of Peace (1971, also as Medoc I does not answer )
  • 109: The City in the Stars (1971)
  • 114: Signs of the Future (1971)
  • 118: The Thousand Years Error (1971)
  • 125: Shadows of the Paraworld (1972, also as The Secret of Zoe )
  • 127: Starward, ho! (1972)
  • 130: Rebellion of the Damned (1972)
  • 132: Children of the Rainbow (1973)
  • 137: Who Axxon Really Was (1973)
  • 141: Terror of the Black Sun (1973)
  • 150: The End of the Lodge Masters (1974)
  • 157: Brain X-90, Android (1975)
  • 167: Cosmoral calls Echo-Mann (1975)
  • 174: Courier in the Hereafter (1976)
  • 183: The Anonymous Mystics (1977)
  • 200: Meeting point Think 3000 (1978)
  • 214: The City of Verticals (1979)
  • 265: Die von der überwelt (1983)
Rex Corda - The Savior of the Earth (notebook novels, 1966/1967)
  • 5: The traitor's bombs
  • 10: Escape into hyperspace
  • 14: Stranded in Hell
  • 18: Death trip to Teckan
  • 21: The Invincible
  • 25: The fratricides of Kalta
  • 29: The Nokis rampage
  • 32: Advance to the Timeless
  • 37: Triumph over the Titan
Ad Astra (booklet novels, 1967/1968)
  • 560: The merciless hunt
  • 570: Terra should die!
  • 586: Ice world should burn!

Historical novels

Translations

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ΛΞЯ-: Controlled Democracy? Documentary film (GER 2006). September 22, 2012, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 3sat.online: country under control - The history of monitoring the FRG. Retrieved on February 28, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ ΛΞЯ-: Controlled Democracy? Documentary film (GER 2006). September 22, 2012, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ From the film minute 06:08 onwards, the censorship of letters is shown in "Land under control - The history of surveillance in the FRG". Mielke speaks of several thousand letters that he opened on orders from superiors and had to search for content that was dangerous to the state.
  5. ↑ From minute 06:52 Mielke describes in "Controlled Democracy?" the letter censorship.
  6. ↑ From minute 10:44 in "Guided Democracy?" Mielke describes the activities of the former force for Psychological Combat, which was later renamed Psychological Defense.
  7. ↑ autobiographical from himself
personal data
SURNAME Mielke, Thomas RP
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mielke, Thomas Rudolf Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold