Werner K. Giesa

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WK Giesa (left) with the founder of the Myra project , to which Giesa contributed through the Mythor series. (2006)

Werner Kurt Giesa (born September 7, 1954 in Hamm ; † February 14, 2008 in Altenstadt ) was a German writer . Since 1977 he has been the author of fantastic novels, most of which were published as booklet novels by Bastei-Verlag .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1974, Werner K. Giesa studied art history and German at the University of Paderborn . In the course of his studies, he began to draw and founded the company WK + DESIGN in the 80s, which focused on advertising for newly founded companies. In order to gain time for his work as a writer, he closed the company after a few years. After graduating, Giesa did his community service in a youth home in Dorsten . Using this experience, he volunteered in child and youth care for several years.

In 1976 he came to the Karin Grasmück novel agency, which brokered his first novels for him in 1977 at Bastei-Verlag . From the end of 1977 he was a full-time writer; in 1978 he wrote his first novels for the series Professor Zamorra , which he later took over as chief author. In the beginning as a full-time author he worked part-time as a jumper for the federal monopoly administration .

In 1986 Giesa married Heike Müller, born in 1960, who later had a significant influence on his work: she played a key role in shaping Professor Zamorra in the background , edited all novels and developed her own characters, while Werner K. Giesa always implemented the writing.

In 2003 the author fell terminally ill and after a long stay in hospital had to have more and more novels of the Zamorra series written by other authors, while he himself withdrew more from coordination and exposé work . Heike Giesa took on the editing of the Macabros and Larry Brent series for Blitz-Verlag .

Giesa was hit hard by the sudden death of his wife in early 2005; in the Zamorra series her lack of influence was soon felt. Giesa gave up the exposé work at the end of 2007.

On February 14, 2008, he was found dead in his apartment in Altenstadt .

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As a schoolboy Giesa began to write SF and fantasy stories, which soon appeared in printed form (with Spirit Carbon printer ) within his "non-commercial publisher terrapress ".

Until his death, Giesa wrote over 800 novels in different genres such as horror and science fiction, for the fantasy series Mythor Giesa wrote numerous novels for the last volumes as well as the exposés in the 80s. He has also worked under various pseudonyms for other magazine series, including ghost crime (as Mike Shadow), Damona King (as HP Usher and Mike Shadow), vampire horror novel (as Olsh Trenton), demon killer (as Merlyn G. Hastur ) and The Terranauten (as Art Norman). He also wrote for not fantastic series such as 320 HP Jim (as Monty G. Ryker) and Trucker-King (under the publishing pseudonym Steve Cooper).

His main work was the booklet novel series Professor Zamorra , to which he joined with volume 111 and whose title he wrote from volume 362 for eight years exclusively on his own. Until his death he was the chief author of this series; he published there first under the pseudonym Robert Lamont , after the abolition of the collective pseudonym then under real names.

In addition to Professor Zamorra , Giesa wrote several science fiction novels published in book form , including some Perry Rhodan planetary novels and a contribution to the continuation of the Ren Dhark series. Giesa himself described science fiction as the genre that originally brought him to writing.

In the early 80s he made the three horror films - Draculord , The Magician - The Horror from the Crypt and Professor Zamorra - Satan's death squad as an amateur production . These were occasionally performed at conventions until the author's death , but the performance has since failed due to copyright issues.

Awards

Trivia

For reasons of environmental protection, the author took the opportunity in 2000 to buy a small plot of land in the north of Scotland , which was thus withdrawn from commercial use. He then received documentary confirmation that he was Laird of Glencairn .

proof

  1. ↑ Later companies of the same name had nothing to do with the Giesas company.
  2. ↑ a b Autobiography on the author's website ( memento of March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Source: Giesa's homepage, Geisterwald catalog, Internet forum of the Bastei publishing house
  4. ↑ Literature Prize Winner of the German Fantastic Prize

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personal data
SURNAME Giesa, Werner K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giesa, WK; Giesa, Werner Kurt; Lamont, Robert (pseudonym); Carstens, Curt (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 7th September 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2008
Place of death Altenstadt