Wolf Weitbrecht

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Wolfgang Weitbrecht (born June 17, 1920 in Stuttgart , † November 28, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and writer of science fiction novels.

Life

After studying medicine at the University of Tübingen , Weitbrecht began his military service and received his doctorate in 1947 as a specialist in social hygiene . Two years earlier he became a member of the KPD . From 1947 to 1953 Weitbrecht worked first as an assistant doctor and until 1955 as a medical officer in Berlin-Köpenick . He then worked as a deputy district doctor in East Berlin until 1957. Then Weitbrecht was first vice-president of the German Red Cross of the GDR until 1974 and was also a member of the district assembly in Dresden from 1958 to 1963 . From 1974 until his retirement in 1985 as senior medical adviser and in the meantime honored in 1980 as “ Honored Doctor of the People ” with the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, Weitbrecht was editor-in-chief of the medical journal humanitas . He was also a freelance writer and science fiction writer , who had also been a member of the GDR Writers' Association since 1974 .

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His first novel Oracle of the Dolphins was very successful and was reprinted several times in different editions (also as a novel ). In the "scientific-fantastic novel" (subtitle) his protagonists come to the realization through research that extraterrestrials visited the earth in prehistoric times and left their traces. Initially it is only the dwarfs who are identified as aliens by Weitbrecht's protagonists , in the sequels Hour of Ceres , Star of the Mothers and Confusion about Gäa , other mythical creatures are also included.

In the early GDR-SF there were quite a number of such influences of pre-astronautics . Compare Günther Krupkat , Carlos Rasch and Rainer Fuhrmann . In Weitbrecht the fairytale element dominates.

bibliography

Novels
  • Oracle of the Dolphins. Greifenverlag Rudolstadt, 1972
  • Hour of Ceres. Greifenverlag Rudolstadt, 1975
  • Star of mothers. Greifenverlag Rudolstadt, 1980
  • The Relatives of the Astron. Greifenverlag Rudolstadt, 1985
  • The Man from Alaska Illustrations by Karl Fischer . The New Adventure # 480, 1986.
  • Confusion about Gäa. Greifenverlag Rudolstadt, 1988
Short story collections
  • The psychomobile. Greifenverlag Rudolstadt, 1976
  • Alderamine's trap. New Life Publishing House , 1982
  • Dispute with a bracken: stories of the day after tomorrow. Tribüne-Verlag, 1988
Short stories
  • When the Cloud Came (1976)
  • Coacervatchen (1976)
  • The Disciplinary Procedure (1976)
  • The Interview (1976)
  • The Psychomobile (1976)
  • The Visit of the Laurinids (1976)
  • The Man Who Hooked the Hook (1976)
  • The Garbage Flyer (1976)
  • The Superstar (1976)
  • The Old Homeland (1976)
  • Landing does not take place (1976)
  • The rats (1976)
  • Imago (1976)
  • Why not two by two (1976)
  • The Absolute (1983)
  • The Sky Dog (1985)
  • Also a theory! (1988)
  • The Grandfather (1988)
  • The Man Who Was Afraid of His Hand (1988)
  • The New Moralist (1988)
  • The Son-in-Law (1988)
  • The Fall of Man (1988)
  • The Underground (1988)
  • Dispute with a bracken (1988)
  • Finale (1988)
  • Intermezzo I – IV (1988)
  • Yes, our old penne! (1988)
  • Stomachache (1988)
  • Grandma Möller (1988)
  • Rudi Trebbin No More (1988)
  • From the listener as such (1988)
  • Why does nobody have time? (1988)
  • What's next? (1988)
  • Second thermodynamic law (1988)
Non-fiction

literature

  • Wolfgang Achnitz, Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon . Vol. 30. Walter de Gruyter, 2010, column 264.
  • Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 445.
  • Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 1035 f.
  • Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Wolf Weitbrecht, p. 116 f .
  • Karsten Kruschel : Wolf Weitbrecht. In: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , pp. 275-279.
  • Karsten Kruschel: Weitbrecht, Wolf . In: Lexicon of science fiction literature since 1900. With a look at Eastern Europe. Edited by Christoph F. Lorenz. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5 , pp. 559-563.

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personal data
SURNAME Weitbrecht, Wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weitbrecht, Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1987
Place of death Berlin