Walter Ernsting

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Walter Ernsting in 1978

Walter Ernsting (* 13. June 1920 in Koblenz ; † 15. January 2005 in Salzburg / Austria ), better known by his pseudonym Clark Darlton , was a German science fiction - writers .

Life

Walter Ernsting grew up in Essen , Lüdenscheid and Bonn as a result of his mother's marriages and divorces , attended grammar school up to the eleventh grade and made a living as a dachshund breeder. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht shortly after the start of the Second World War . He came to Kurland in 1945 via Poland, Königsberg , Norway, France and Riga , where he was taken prisoner . A fellow prisoner denounced him to the authorities, so that Ernsting was sentenced in 1947 to five years in a prison camp in Karaganda ( Kazakhstan ). After his release from Soviet captivity in 1950, he stayed with relatives in Velken ( Ruppichteroth ). He lived there for almost a year.

From 1952 he worked as a translator for the British occupation authorities. During this activity he came into contact with the American science fiction of the American pulp magazines . Since 1954 Ernsting worked full-time at Pabel Verlag , where he was responsible for the large Utopia volume as an editor and translator. The focus of the booklet was on English-speaking authors.

In August 1955 Ernsting founded the Science Fiction Club Germany (SFCD) together with others . He worked with great enthusiasm on his goal of making science fiction and fandom at home in the Federal Republic and increasing their importance. He represented his personal points of view with great conviction and found it difficult to criticize them.

In 1981 Ernsting, who lived in Bavaria and Austria, moved to Ireland (near Youghal in County Cork ). However, he later returned for health reasons to live near his children in Salzburg.

Rainer Eisfeld describes Ernsting as having a natural approach to people. For better or for worse, he carried his heart on his tongue.

After his death, an asteroid was named after him. It bears the designation (15265) Ernsting .

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In 1955 he published his first novel Ufo am Nachthimmel with the help of a trick: The Pabel-Verlag, for whose SF series Utopia-Großband he was working as a translator , rejected German authors . Therefore, Walter Ernsting submitted his novel as an alleged translation by the fictional British author Clark Darlton . This trick with the alleged English-speaking original author had already been used by the German writer Joachim Rennau .

Other novels written under the pseudonym Clark Darlton include Raum ohne Zeit (1957) and a trilogy about a galactic war that appeared in 1958, consisting of the novels Assassinate Sol , Back from Eternity and The Galactic Federation . He was also one of the founders of the Science Fiction Club Germany , which he also chaired for some time.

In 1961 he launched the Perry Rhodan novel series together with Karl-Herbert Scheer . Scheer was solely responsible for the background, the synopsis and the guidelines for the plot, while Ernsting was responsible for choosing the names of the respective heroes.

The political scientist and science fiction expert Rainer Eisfeld recognized parallels in the beginnings of the Perry-Rhodan series with the Sun Koh series of novels (1933–1936), for which Walter Ernsting was already enthusiastic as a schoolboy.

Ernsting's contribution to Perry Rhodan comprises 192 booklets, 26 paperback books and 32 novels for the parallel Atlan series. Pucky the mouse beaver, a figure Ernsting invented together with Scheer, has become one of the most popular figures in the series. Together with Scheer, who died in 1991, and Johnny Bruck , who died in 1995 , he looked back on the longest career in the Rhodan universe .

He had officially withdrawn from the series with issue number 1622, but was still seen as a member of the team of authors and was a welcome guest at events.

Ernsting's work includes more than 300 novels and dozen short stories. The majority make up the series-related stories that were published under the name Clark Darlton, but he also published numerous books under the name Walter Ernsting. For his collaborative work with Ulf Miehe , two novels and a short story book, he used the pseudonym Robert Artner .

bibliography

Novels

Unless otherwise noted, all books through 1972 were published under the name Clark Darlton.

On the threshold of eternity
  • And Satan will come. (= Terra. Volume 26). 1956.
  • The threshold to eternity. (also: On the threshold of eternity. ) Pabel , 1957.
The galactic war
  • Assassination attempt on Sol. Moewig , 1958.
  • Back from eternity. (also: Raum ohne Zeit. ) 1958. ( ISBN 3-404-09936-2 )
  • The Galactic Federation. Moewig, 1958.
Starlight cycle
Hurricane
  • Utopia is dying. 1959. (as Fred McPatterson)
  • Planet of a Thousand Wonders. 1959. (as Fred McPatterson)
  • City of vending machines. (= Terra. Volume 74). 1962.
  • The space-time experiment. Pabel, 1962.
  • Rastor III - Send! Pabel, 1962.
  • The iron eater. 1963. (2003, ISBN 3-89840-603-2 )
  • The legacy of Hiroshima. (= Terra. Volume 72). 1963.
  • Cosmic vertigo. Pabel, 1963.
  • The Andromeda Reef. (= Terra. Band 430 + 431). 1965.
  • The gravitational sun. (= Terra. Volume 554). 1967.
Adventure trilogy

(as Walter Ernsting)

Holocaust trilogy
Puzzle trilogy
Spaceship Neptune
Single novels
  • UFO in the night sky. 1955. New edition 2004, ISBN 3-8328-9000-9 .
  • Assault out of nowhere. 1956. New edition 1985, ISBN 3-8118-3305-7 .
  • The man who stole the future. (= Terra. Volume 18). 1956.
  • Time is against us. 1956. New edition 1996, ISBN 3-930515-61-X .
  • The ring around the sun. (= Terra. Volume 34). 1956. (with Raymond Z. Gallun )
  • Uranus III satellite. (= Terra. Volume 40). 1956.
  • Planet Lerks III. Moewig, 1957.
  • The Eternal Law. (= Terra. Volume 2). 1957.
  • Final. 1957.
  • Command from infinity. 1957, ISBN 3-8118-3306-5 .
  • Death came from the stars. Moewig, 1958.
  • The shining cities. (= Terra. Volume 91). 1958.
  • Wanderer between three ages. (= Terra. Volume 137). 1959.
  • Spaceship of dead souls. 1959. New edition 2005, ISBN 3-936229-50-3 .
  • Successful experiment. 1959. New edition 1985, ISBN 3-8118-3308-1 .
  • Galaxy ahoy! Pabel 1959. (with Jesco von Puttkamer )
  • The foreign compulsion. 1959. New edition 1984, ISBN 3-8118-3300-6 .
  • The immortal universe. Balowa, 1959. (with Jesco von Puttkamer)
  • The unquenchable fire. Bewin, 1960. (as Munro R. Upton)
  • World without a veil. (also: The Mind Reader. ) Moewig, 1961.
  • The timeless. (also: Der Atomhandel. ) 1961. New edition 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3597-1 .
  • The last time machine. 1961. New edition 1984, ISBN 3-8118-3302-2 .
  • The gnome was damaged. (= Terra. Volume 128). 1962,
  • When the sun went out. Pabel 1962.
  • The shining power. Moewig, 1962.
  • Return prohibited. (= Terra. No. 172). 1962.
  • PIA 301. 1962.
  • The secret of the merchant fleet. (= Terra. Volume 91). 1962.
  • The jump into nowhere. (also: Life never ends. ) Moewig, 1964. (with Henry Bings)
  • The third chance. (= Terra. No. 90). 1964.
  • Hades - (The) world of the exiles. Moewig, 1966.
  • The gods always win. 1966.
  • The jump into the hereafter. Pabel 1968.
  • Expedition to nowhere. (= Terra Nova. No. 81). 1969.
  • Death chess. Moewig 1970.
  • The sun bomb. 1972.
  • Between death and eternity. Pabel, 1974.
  • The secret in the Atlantic. 1976, ISBN 3-414-12980-9 .
  • The day the gods died. 1979, ISBN 3-938516-11-9 .
  • The nine unknowns. Moewig, 1983.
Story collections
  • At the end of fear. Heyne, 1968. (with Ulf Miehe, as Robert Artner)
  • The death row inmate. Moewig, 1982.
  • Robots never go wrong. Moewig, 1983.
  • No tomorrow for the earth. 1986, ISBN 3-8118-3310-3 .

Notebook novels

Perry Rhodan booklet novels (1961–1992)

Walter Ernsting wrote 192 novels in the Perry Rhodan main series.

  • 2: The Third Power (1961)
  • 4: Götterdämmerung (1961)
  • 7: Invasion from Space (1961)
  • 12: The Secret of the Time Crypt (1961)
  • 14: The Galactic Enigma (1961)
  • 15: The Trace Through Time and Space (1961)
  • 18: The Tuglan Rebels (1962)
  • 22: Thora's Escape (1962)
  • 26: Duel of the Mutants (1962)
  • 27: Under the spell of hypno (1962)
  • 32: Journey to Infinity (1962)
  • 33: Ice World in Flames (1962)
  • 36: The Plague of Oblivion (1962)
  • 37: A Planet Goes Insane (1962)
  • 40: Action against Unknown (1962)
  • 41: The Giant's Partner (1962)
  • 45: Aralon epidemic (1962)
  • 48: Red Eye Betelgeuse (1962)
  • 49: the earth dies (1962)
  • 52: The Wrong Inspector (1962)
  • 56: The Dead Live (1962)
  • 58: Attack from the Invisible (1962)
  • 61: The Robot Spy (1962)
  • 63: The Micro-Technicians (1962)
  • 64: In Time Prison (1962)
  • 65: A Touch of Eternity (1962)
  • 76: Under the Stars by Druufon (1963)
  • 77: In the Shackles of Eternity (1963)
  • 81: Spaceship of the Ancestors (1963)
  • 84: Recruits for Arkon (1963)
  • 85: Naator Combat School (1963)
  • 91: Ernst Ellert's Return (1963)
  • 94: The Flaming Sun (1963)
  • 95: Sky Without Stars (1963)
  • 101: The Space Tramp (1963)
  • 105: The Ghost Fleet (1963)
  • 111: False Flag (1963)
  • 117: The Stolen Fleet (1963)
  • 121: Legacy of the Lizards (1963)
  • 126: The Shadows Attack (1964)
  • 129: Nuclear fire on Mechanica (1964)
  • 135: Guardian in Solitude (1964)
  • 140: A Dead Shall Not Die (1964)
  • 145: Army of the Ghosts (1964)
  • 151: Signals of Eternity (1964)
  • 157: Explorer in Need (1964)
  • 158: The Scourge of the Galaxy (1964)
  • 163: The Second Empire (1964)
  • 171: Battle of the Four Powers (1964)
  • 177: The fall of the 2nd empire (1965)
  • 184: Pucky and the Blue Guard (1965)
  • 189: The Mouse Beaver Expedition (1965)
  • 190: Admiral Gecko (1965)
  • 202: The Savior of CREST (1965)
  • 209: Under the spell of the pseudo-killers (1965)
  • 220: Death from the Stars (1965)
  • 224: Agents against the Empire (1965)
  • 229: Enemy from Alien Galaxy (1966)
  • 232: The Time Trap (1966)
  • 239: World Under Hot Radiation (1966)
  • 244: The Sphere of Time and Space (1966)
  • 248: Committed to His Life ... (1966)
  • 255: Andromeda Exclusion Zone (1966)
  • 256: In the Realm of the Center Guard (1966)
  • 268: Shock Troop in Time and Space (1966)
  • 269: Hunt for the Time Agent (1966)
  • 275: The Flight to Barkon (1966)
  • 282: The Trail Leads to Iago's Star (1967)
  • 289: The Blue Giants System (1967)
  • 290: Coordinates to the Hereafter (1967)
  • 294: The Conquerors (1967)
  • 295: The Lost Planet (1967)
  • 302: Allow me, Pucky and Son! (1967)
  • 310: The Gift of the Time Traveler (1967)
  • 316: The Leap to Doom (1967)
  • 320: Operation Blitz (1967)
  • 324: Stranded in Nowhere (1967)
  • 326: Pucky and the Golem (1967)
  • 336: Pucky and the Vacupath (1968)
  • 341: The Planetary Dungeon (1968)
  • 344: The Kidnappers of the Chosen One (1968)
  • 348: The Cosmic Trap (1968)
  • 354: Experiments with Time (1968)
  • 358: Encounter in M-87 (1968)
  • 361: The Tower of Eternal Life (1968)
  • 366: The Biostation Riddle (1968)
  • 371: Assassination attempt on the sun (1968)
  • 376: Voices from the Past (1968)
  • 380: The Time Command (1968)
  • 383: The Fantastic Journey of the FD-4 (1969)
  • 388: Gods from the Cosmos (1969)
  • 392: The Ship of the Green Spirits (1969)
  • 396: Hiding in the Future (1969)
  • 402: UFOs in the Galaxy (1969)
  • 406: Message from the Future (1969)
  • 409: The Man Who Died Double (1969)
  • 415: Friends from an Alien Universe (1969)
  • 420: Mysteries of the Past (1969)
  • 423: Atlan Special Command (1969)
  • 427: At the Lake of the Gods (1969)
  • 430: The Cappins' Ultimatum (1969)
  • 436: Test flight to Atlantis (1970)
  • 439: OVARON control center (1970)
  • 443: Assault on Exilot (1970)
  • 449: The End of the Dictator (1970)
  • 454: Raiders of the Stars (1970)
  • 461: Escape into the Uncertain (1970)
  • 462: The Knower (1970)
  • 467: The Last Man of DOLDA (1970)
  • 468: The Telekinet (1970)
  • 472: The Violet Fire (1970)
  • 479: Ganjo Alert (1970)
  • 489: Pucky and the Traitor (1971)
  • 494: The Moon of Peril (1971)
  • 498: The Return of the Takerer (1971)
  • 503: Planet of the Diggers (1971)
  • 507: Interlude on Tahun (1971)
  • 512: THE FLIGHT OF GATOS BAY (1971)
  • 517: Emergency Call of the Immortal (1971)
  • 523: The Planet Raider (1971)
  • 524: The Yellow Conquerors (1971)
  • 535: Transport into the Unknown (1971)
  • 541: Under the spell of the panic field (1972)
  • 549: The Elixir of the Gods (1972)
  • 554: Kidnappers in Space (1972)
  • 560: Pucky, the tambu god (1972)
  • 565: Pucky, the master thief (1972)
  • 574: The Sky Metal (1972)
  • 580: The Time Knights (1972)
  • 590: Destination unknown (1972)
  • 593: The Metapsychic War (1973)
  • 602: The Leap to Luna (1973)
  • 608: In the footsteps of the PAD (1973)
  • 617: The Struggle for Positronics (1973)
  • 624: In the Catacombs of Nopaloor (1973)
  • 630: Legacy of the Yulocs (1973)
  • 648: Fighting the Yuloc (1974)
  • 656: The Keeper of Secrets (1974)
  • 670: Hyperspace Breaks Up (1974)
  • 677: Legacy of the Glovaars (1974)
  • 691: Sargasso of Space (1974)
  • 702: The Silent House (1975)
  • 708: Interlude on Saturn (1975)
  • 716: Calamity From Another Dimension (1975)
  • 723: Cyborg Colony (1975)
  • 736: Avengers Between the Stars (1975)
  • 742: Return in question (1975)
  • 764: The Wall Around the World (1976)
  • 772: The Vrinos Ghost (1976)
  • 781: Opponents in the Dark (1976)
  • 792: Help from Time and Space (1976)
  • 802: Planet of the Dead Children (1977)
  • 813: In the Stream of Eternity (1977)
  • 827: The Man of Barkon (1977)
  • 841: The Glass World (1977)
  • 852: Island Between the Stars (1977)
  • 862: Ice Wind of Time (1978)
  • 880: Opponents in the Dark (1978)
  • 893: Farewell to Eden II (1978)
  • 910: Planet of Telepaths (1979)
  • 921: Contact on Scharzo (1979)
  • 935: Mystery of the Universe (1979)
  • 955: The Riddle of the Barrier (1979)
  • 967: The Matter Sink (1980)
  • 968: Exodus of the Mutants (1980)
  • 983: The Place of Silence (1980)
  • 998: Terran Unwanted (1980)
  • 1006: The Trap of Cratcan (1980)
  • 1016: Interlude on Karselpun (1981)
  • 1028: The Lonely Prisoner (1981)
  • 1046: Terra in the field of fire (1981)
  • 1060: the planet volcano (1981)
  • 1064: The Shipwreck (1982)
  • 1102: The Last Mirvaner (1982)
  • 1115: Messenger of the Immortal (1983)
  • 1135: Encounter at the Eye of Death (1983)
  • 1154: Escape from the Gray Corridor (1983)
  • 1171: The Impulse of Death (1984)
  • 1206: Escape into the Labyrinth (1984)
  • 1235: Lightning Over Eden (1985)
  • 1306: The Secret of Chanukah (1986)
  • 1334: The End Justifies the Means (1987)
  • 1366: Freedom of Consciousness (1987)
  • 1384: Place of Fulfillment (1988)
  • 1407: The Hermit of Satrang (1988)
  • 1417: Flight Towards Eternity (1988)
  • 1435: In the Halo of the Galaxy (1989)
  • 1475: In Gesil's Footsteps (1989)
  • 1510: A Stowaway (1990)
  • 1563: Secret Matter RIUNAN (1991)
  • 1602: Searching for traces in space (1992)
  • 1622: The Lost One (1992)

editor

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Published in full by Wilhelm Heyne-Verlag

Trivia

Walter Ernsting was depicted on two cover pictures of the Perry-Rhodan booklet series. On the cover picture by Johnny Bruck for volume 1007, Die Kosmische Hanse, (1980) Ernsting carries the fictional character Pucky , which he helped to create and coined, on his arm. After Ernsting's death in January 2005, Perry-Rhodan's volume No. 2299, Ahandaba , was published on September 9, 2005 . The cover picture of this volume created by Swen Papenbrock also shows a portrait of Ernsting.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus N. Frick in an interview with Rainer Eisfeld : How was it actually «back then» - in the 50s and early 60s? - About the beginnings of the PERRY RHODAN series and the two founding authors, in: Perry Rhodan report No. 532, pp. 3–6, in: Michelle Stern : The Hour of the Oracle, Perry Rhodan No. 3.020, Pabel-Moewig, Rastatt . 5th July 2019.
  2. ↑ Johnny Bruck : Cover picture of: William Voltz : Die Kosmische Hanse, Perry Rhodan No. 1007, Pabel-Moewig, Rastatt, 1980. (View of the cover picture.)
  3. ↑ Swen Papenbrock : Cover picture for: Uwe Anton : Ahandaba, Perry Rhodan No. 2299, Pabel-Moewig, Rastatt, September 9, 2005. (View of the cover picture.)
personal data
SURNAME Ernsting, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darlton, Clark (pseudonym); McPatterson, Fred (pseudonym); Chester, Tom (pseudonym); Haller, Frank (pseudonym); Artner, Robert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2005
Place of death Salzburg