Wolfram Kober

Wolfram Kober (born August 31, 1950 in Zwickau ) is a German science fiction author.

Life

At the same time he graduated from high school, Kober learned to work as an electrician and then studied sports science and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Then he worked as a teacher in Schönfels . In 1989, Kober left the GDR, but returned to Zwickau in 1992, where he worked in the local district administration, and from 1997 in the press office. From 2005 to 2015 he headed the adult education center in Zwickau.

Kober made his debut as a writer with a few short stories that were published between 1970 and 1973 in the youth magazine Technikus . There he also published popular science articles on space travel. From 1976, his stories appeared in various anthologies and in two edited volumes.

Narratives (selection)

• 1968 Luna 1 , in Technikus 4/68, reprinted in Finland
• 1969 crack in the tunnel , in Technikus 5/69
• 1971 Examination for Mercury , in Technikus 5/71
• 1972 Robert the robot , in Technikus 10/72
• 1976 Commissioned Lemur and Roboid category , in "Encounter in Light", Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin
• 1983 The old man , in ways to impossibility , ed. by Ekkehard Redlin, Verlag Das Neue Berlin
• 1984 Personality , in light year 3 , ed. by Erik Simon , Verlag Das Neue Berlin
• 1986–88 The new millennium , short story series in the Technikus
• 2012 Mo'yin, the Alill , BunTES Abenteuer 02/2012, TES Erfurt

Anthologies

• 1983 Nova. Utopische Erzählungen , Verlag Das Neue Berlin (again as a paperback in SF Utopia 1988, ISBN 3-359-00537-6 )
• 1984 exoship. Utopian stories , Verlag Das Neue Berlin (again in 1986 as a paperback by SF Utopia )

literature

• Hartmut Mechtel : Wolfram Kober. 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. 168–170.
• Hans-Peter Neumann: The large illustrated bibliography of science fiction in the GDR. Shayol, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-926126-11-6 .

Web links

• Wolfram Kober in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Wolfram Kober in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Wolfram Kober at Open Library