Carlos Rasch (6 April 1932 in

Curitiba Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná (state), Paraná in Brazil. The city's population was 1,948,626 , making it the List of cities in Brazil by population, eighth most populous city in Brazil and the largest in ...

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- 7 January 2021) was a

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

author, whose works mostly appeared in

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before

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Biography

At the age of six, he moved with his parents from Brazil to Germany. In 1951 he started working as a reporter for the GDR's

Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst The Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst (ADN), German for ''General German News Service'', was the state news agency in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It supplied news content to GDR newspapers and news broadcasters. History The ADN ...

. It was during his days as a reporter that he started writing literature. In 1965 he became a full-time writer. In addition to writing novels, he penned science-fiction short stories and radio dramas as well co-authoring the unproduced thirteen-part GDR television series ''Raumlotsen''. There followed a period in which he was out of favor with the ruling powers and earned his keep through pick-up jobs and writing under pseudonyms. By the mid-80s, he was once again able to publish. From 1990 until he retired in 1997, he worked for the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung in

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

Selected publications

* ''Asteroidenjäger'' (1961; movie version produced by DEFA in 1970 as ''Signale – Ein Weltraumabenteuer'', directed by

Gottfried Kolditz Gottfried Kolditz (14 December 1922 – 15 June 1982) was a German movie actor and director. Biography Kolditz was born in Goldbach-Altenbach to a farm family. Between 1945 and 1949 he studied German philology at the University of Leipzig, an ...

) * ''Der blaue Planet'' (1963) * ''Der Untergang der Astronautic'' (1963) * ''Im Schatten der Tiefsee'' (1965) * ''Die Umkehr der Meridian. Raumfahrterzählung aus dem Jahre 2232'' (1966) * ''Das unirdische Raumschiff'' (1967) * ''Rekordflug im Jet-Orkan'' (1970) * ''Krakentang'' (1972) * ''Magma am Himmel'' (1975) * ''Vikonda'' (1986) * ''Raumlotsen''-Series :* ''Zurück zum Erdenball'' (2009) :* ''Orbitale Balance'' (2010) :* ''Daheim auf Erden'' (2011) :* ''Stern von Gea '' (2011)

References

External links

Biography at epilog.de
* 1932 births 2021 deaths People from Curitiba German science fiction writers German male writers {{Germany-writer-stub