Uschi Zietsch

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Uschi Zietsch in 2016

Uschi Zietsch (born August 3, 1961 in Munich ) is a German author of - among other things - fantasy novels, science fiction adventures, children's and animal books. Sometimes she writes novels and short stories under the pseudonym Susan Schwartz as well as TV novels and thrillers under other pseudonyms. She also works as a travel photographer and publisher .

Life

Uschi Zietsch, daughter of the Bavarian politician Friedrich Zietsch , graduated from high school in Munich at the age of 18 and then studied law, politics, theater studies and history. She started writing as a child.

As early as 1977 she came up with Das Träumende Universum and in 1978 she approached the publishers with the first 1000-page novel from it. Because the work was too extensive to be published for the first time, Uschi Zietsch wrote shorter novels about it. So it came 1986 first publication of star cloud and Eiszauber in Heyne Verlag .

However, since she could not find sufficient publication opportunities for her further ideas, she and her husband founded their own publishing house in 1987 under the name Fabylon , in which they published further works. In addition to Der Traum der Wintersonne (1988), a Celtic fairy tale that was well received and quickly developed into the young publisher's bestseller, another novel from the dreaming universe came out in 1990 with The Star of the Gods Welt Waldsee had as the setting. This was followed by the cycle of Die Chroniken von Waldsee from 2006, currently in five volumes.

In 1991 she came to the Frankfurt Book Fair with Werner Fuchs , Fantasy Productions (publisher, among other things, for the role-playing game Das Schwarze Auge ), and with Dr. Florian Marzin , the editor-in-chief of Pabel-Moewig Verlag at the time, and wrote two Aventuria novels, more than 80 booklet novels for the SF series Perry Rhodan , several volumes of the Perry Rhodan Neo series as well as contributions to the sister series Atlan , in which she worked for one Cycle also took over the editing of the reader contact page. She also wrote for the science fiction series Bad Earth and wrote booklet novels and hardcover for the SciFi-Fantasy-Endzeit-Mix Maddrax and for the novel series for the computer game SpellForce: The Order of Dawn .

In spring 2007 Fabylon started the science fantasy series SunQuest with her as co-author and editor and ended in August 2010. A total of 12 paperbacks came out, each written by two authors. In addition to numerous first publications by young authors (e.g. Dennis Mathiak, Laura Flöter, Alex Nofftz), experienced authors such as Ernst Vlcek , Uwe Anton and Hubert Haensel could be won over to work.

In October 2008, the 20-part monthly fantasy series Elfenzeit began in the Bertelsmann Book Club (BS editions), for which she created the concept, wrote the exposés and co-wrote the novels (under her alias Susan Schwartz ). Elfenzeit is a modern urban fantasy series that combines global myths and reality and is set in many places around the world. From January 2012, the 15-part fantasy series Schattenlord was published in the Bertelsmann Book Club (BS editions) as a spin-off of the Elfenzeit series. Shortly after that in the same year, Bastei-Lübbe published Der Fluch der Halflinge under the pseudonym Prisca Burrows , which was continued in 2014 with The Sacrifice of the Bogins .

From 2017, after 14 years of occasional collaboration, Uschi Zietsch returned to being a permanent team author for the Perry Rhodan series , for which she regularly wrote novels under her pseudonym Susan Schwartz .

Uschi Zietsch lives as a freelance writer on a farm in the Unterallgäu district and, in addition to her writing activities , gives writing seminars for aspiring authors in Austria and Germany. She produces books at Fabylon , where she is co-owner, editor, editor and proofreader. Most of her novels are published in print formats and as eBooks .

Pseudonyms

  • Susan Schwartz
  • Prisca Burrows
  • Ashley Lindisfarne
  • Anna Leoni (publisher's own collective pseudonym)
  • Leonora Sasso (publisher's own collective pseudonym)

Works

The dreaming universe

  1. Star cloud and ice magic , 1986, Heyne Fantasy , ISBN 3-453-31335-6 .
  2. The Star of the Gods (Prequel to Chronicles of Waldsee ), 1989, Fabylon, ISBN 3-927-07104-8 .
  3. Demon Blood (Volume 1 of the Chronicles of Waldsee ), 2008, Bastei Lübbe , ISBN 3-404-28517-4 .
  4. Night fire (Volume 2 of the Chronicles of Waldsee ), 2008, Bastei Lübbe, ISBN 3-404-28520-4 .
  5. Perlmond (Volume 3 of the Chronicles of Waldsee ), 2008, Bastei Lübbe, ISBN 3-404-28522-0 .
  6. Nauraka (Volume 4 of the Chronicles of Waldsee ), 2009, Bastei Lübbe, 2015, Fabylon, ISBN 3-404-28534-4 .
  7. Fyrgar (Volume 5 of the Chronicles of Waldsee ), 2011, Bastei Lübbe, 2015, Fabylon, ISBN 3-404-28549-2 .
  8. The true treasure , 2002, short story, published in the anthologies Fire Breath ( ISBN 3-426-70279-7 .) And The true treasure and other fantasies ( ISBN 3-942-53302-2 .)

Single novels

Chronicle of the Bogins (as Prisca Burrows)

  1. The Curse of the Halflings , 2012
  2. The victim of the Bogins , 2014

New edition under the title Das Reich Albalon as eBooks, 2017, Fabylon

  1. The League of Fiandur
  2. The heart of the king

Animals, friends for life

  • Volume 1, Mira, the heroine , Dino Verlag , 2000, ISBN 978-3-89748-229-6
  • Volume 2, Cleo's great victory , Dino Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89748-230-2
  • Volume 3, Don't give up, Max , Dino Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89748-231-9
  • Volume 4, Minka, where are you? , Dino Verlag, 2000
  • Volume 5, Einstein's best idea , Dino Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89748-303-3
  • Volume 6, Fee's big appearance , Dino Verlag, 2000
  • Volume 7, Sunny chases the thief , Dino Verlag, 2001
  • Volume 8, Minni makes it big , Dino Verlag, 2001
  • Volume 10, Where do you belong, Ole? , Dino Verlag, 2002
  • Volume 11, Fenja, just great! , Dino Verlag, 2002
  • Little snoopers really big (anthology), Dino Verlag, 2002
  • The most beautiful stories of the animal children Fee and Sunny , Panini 2008

Elfenzeit (exposé and author, 20 volumes, as Susan Schwartz)

  • Volume 1, The Breath of the Otherworld , 2007
  • Volume 4, The Lion of Venice , 2008
  • Volume 5, Shadows of the Realm of the Dead , 2009
  • Volume 8, Island of Fire and Fog , 2009
  • Volume 9, The Vampire Slayer , 2009
  • Volume 12, Ragnarök , 2009
  • Volume 15, The Golden Apples , 2009
  • Volume 19, The Battle for Earrach , 2010
  • Volume 20, The Breath of Immortality , 2010

Shadow Lord (synopsis and author, 15 volumes, as Susan Schwartz)

  • Volume 1, Stranded in the Otherworld , 2011
  • Volume 4, The Curse of the Soul Catcher , 2011
  • Volume 5, Storm Over Dawn , 2012
  • Volume 8, The Queen of Birds , 2012
  • Volume 9, Masters of Assassins , 2012
  • Volume 11, The Silver Mask (together with Stephanie Seidel ), 2012
  • Volume 12, Song of the Seven Winds , 2012
  • Volume 15, Mirror of Revelation , 2013

SunQuest (exposé and author, 12 volumes, as Susan Schwartz)

  • Volume 1, Fathomless (together with Ernst Vlcek ), 2007, Fabylon-Verlag
  • Volume 6, Tenebrae (together with Uwe Anton ), 2008, Fabylon-Verlag
  • Volume 7, The Dark Moon (together with Hubert Haensel ), 2009, Fabylon-Verlag
  • Volume 12, ELIUM (together with Marc A. Herren ), 2010, Fabylon-Verlag

The black eye

Coco Zamis-The Adventures of a Young Witch (as Susan Schwartz)

  • Sister Heart , 2002, in Volume 5 The Devil's Favorite
  • The Devil's Island , 2003, in Volume 6 Axinum's Shadow Army

SpellForce Shaikan cycle

Bad Earth (as Susan Schwartz)

  • Volume 2, Behind the Horizon , 2005, Zaubermond Verlag
  • Volume 7, The Hermetic Galaxy , 2006, Zaubermond Verlag

Maddrax (as Susan Schwartz)

  • Volume 12, The Gray Plague , 2006, Zaubermond Verlag
  • Volume 16, Der Götterbote , 2007, Zaubermond Verlag
  • Volume 20, Takeo's Dream , 2008, Zaubermond Verlag

Spaceship Promet (as Susan Schwartz)

New adventures:

Titan Star Adventure:

Night People - New Adventures (as Susan Schwartz)

Perry Rhodan (as Susan Schwartz)

  • Author's Library Volume 5, Quinto Center , 2003, VPM
  • Planetary novel Volume 357, Chandris World , 2010, VPM
  • Planetary novel Volume 370, World of Prospectors , 1994, Heyne, 2001, VPM
  • Over 80 novels from the Perry Rhodan and Atlan series as well as the Perry Rhodan Neo pocket book series

Justifiers (as Susan Schwartz)

TV novels (novels for TV series, Dino Verlag)

  • My heart is yours! , Volume 1 on Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten , 1997, RTL (as Anna Leoni)
  • Confusion of the Heart 1997–1998, ZDF (as Leonora Sasso)
    • Volume 1, Paths of Destiny
    • Volume 2, Friendship and Love
    • Volume 3, The Decision
  • Hopelessly in love , Volume 7 for Forbidden Love , 1999, ARD (as Ashley Lindisfarne)
  • Behind bars , 1998-2000, RTL (as Ashley Lindisfarne)
    • Volume 1, The Story of Susanne Teubner
    • Volume 2, The Story of Blondie Koschinski
    • Volume 3, The Story of Vivien Andraschek
    • Volume 11, The Story of Mona Suttner

Prizes and awards

  • In 1989, The Dream of the Winter Sun won third place in the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize ;
  • In 2005 Uschi Zietsch received a literary prize from the Berlin Film Museum for the crime short story Der Zukunft Mord .
  • In 2008 she took first place in the Armin T. Wegner literature competition on human rights with the short story Aische, which was announced by Amnesty International , the local Schwelm / Wuppertal group and the Armin T. Wegner Society .
  • 2017: German Fantasy Prize for thirty years of publishing activity in the field of attractively designed, upscale German-language fantasy.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News in brief: German Fantasy Prize & more. In: Fantastic News. June 20, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Zietsch, Uschi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartz, Susan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fantasy and science fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich