Gert Prokop (born 11 June 1932 in
Richtenberg
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state i ...
, died 1 March 1994 in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
from suicide) was a German writer of science fiction and crime fiction. He spent much of his life in the former East Germany. In crime fiction one of his best known works is "Detective Pinky" about an American boy who dreams of being like
Allan Pinkerton
Allan J. Pinkerton (August 25, 1819 – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to a ...
and at least one of his crime novels was filmed.
His science fiction made use of social criticism and
dystopia
A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...
n forms. In 1990 he has won the
Deutscher Science Fiction Preis
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(best short story).
Crime fiction
*''Der Tod des Reporters'', 1973
*''Einer muß die Leiche sein'', 1976 (filmed 1978, Director:
Iris Gusner
Iris Gusner (born Trutnov, Trautenau 16 January 1941) is a German film director and screenwriter.
Life
Gusner's father, Hans Walter Beyer, was a council official who was killed in the Second World War, war. She took her name from her mother, wh ...
)
*''So blond, so schön, so tot'', 1994
Books for children
*''Der Drache mit den veilchenblauen Augen'', 1974
*''Gute-Nacht-Geschichten für verträumte Kinder'', 1975
*''Der kleine Riese und andere Märchen'', Kinderbuch
*''Die Maus im Fenster'', 1980
*''Detektiv Pinky'', 1982 (filmed 2001 as ')
*''Der Hausflug'', 1989
Science fiction
*''Wer stiehlt schon Unterschenkel?'' 1977 (aka ''Der Tod der Unsterblichen'', 1984)
*''Der Samenbankraub'', 1983
*''Die Phrrks'', 1988
*''Das todsichere Ding'', 1988
*''Null minus unendlich'', 1990
References
External links
German website
German crime fiction writers
German science fiction writers
1932 births
1994 suicides
Suicides in Germany
20th-century German novelists
German male novelists
20th-century German male writers
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