Günther Krupkat

Günther Krupkat (born the July 5th 1905 with Berlin, deceased in 1990) was one of the authors of most outstanding Science-fiction of the beginnings of the German Democratic republic.

Biographical note

Günther Krupkat was born with Berlin in 1905. It stopped studies of engineer for lack of money, then exerted, before the Second world war, of many trades as workman, playwright of cinema, sales agent, assembler, publicity agent and laboratory assistant. He also worked for the press and the radio.

At the 19 years age, he wrote its first utopian novel, inspired by his reading of the novel Aelita of Alexeï Nicolaïevitch Tolstoï. The novel, judged too on the left because of social criticism that it expresses there, never found of editor. The first news of the author appears before 1945. Günther Krupkat took part in resistance against national-socialisme and took refuge in Czechoslovakia.

After the war, Günther Krupkat lived in German Democratic republic, in Berlin. It completed its studies of engineer there, then worked as editor association in the press, before becoming independent writer starting from 1955. Within the Schriftstellerverband DER GDR ( Union of the writers of GDR ), he was president of the Arbeitskreis Utopische Literatur ( Cercle of work on the utopian literature ).

Works

News

  • 1956 : Gefangene of the ewigen Kreises of the circle eternal ''

  • 1956: Die Unsichtbaren Invisible ''
  • 1957: Kobalt 60 60 ''
  • 1957: Nordlicht über Palmen boreal above the palm trees ''
  • 1974: Das Duel Duel ''

Novels

  • 1958 : Das Gesicht (1962 auch Fernsehspiel) Face ''

  • 1960: Die große Grenze large border ''
  • 1963: Als die Götter starben the gods died ''
  • 1968: Nabou * 1969: Insel der Angst of the fear ''
  • 1975: Bazillus phantastikus fantasticus''
  • 1975 : Der Mann vom Anti anti ''

Internal bonds

Random links:The War of the forgery | Charles Isabelle | LISA Canning | Jacques Nicolas Ernest German of Saint-Pierre | Cynips of the rose tree | Inconvénient