Angela Steinmüller (born 15 April 1941, in
Schmalkalden
Schmalkalden () is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, in the southwest of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest at the Schmalkalde river, a tributary to the Werra. , the town had a popul ...
) is a German mathematician and
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 uni ...
author. Together with her husband
Karlheinz Steinmüller she has written science fiction short stories and novels that depict human development on a cosmic scale, grounded in an analysis of social structures and mechanisms. Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller were not only among the most widely read authors in the
GDR, ranking at the top of a 1989 poll of most popular science fiction authors in the GDR,
but their works continue to be republished.
Awards
* 1993:
Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis "Best short story" for ''Der Kerzenmacher''
* 1995: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis "Best short story" for ''Leichter als Vakuum'' (with
Karlheinz Steinmüller und
Erik Simon)
* 2001: German Fantasy Prize for ''die Verbreitung der phantastischen Literatur in zwei verschiedenen Gesellschaftssystemen sowie ihre Zukunftsperspektiven.'' (with Karlheinz Steinmüller)
* 2004: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis "Best short story" for ''Vor der Zeitreise'' (with Karlheinz Steinmüller)
Novels (with Karlheinz Steinmüller)
* ''
Andymon. Eine Weltraum-Utopie'', 1982
* ''Pulaster. Roman eines Planeten'', 1986
* ''
Der Traummeister'', 1990
* ''Spera'', 2004
References
External links
Angela & Karlheinz Steinmüller's home page
1941 births
Living people
People from Schmalkalden
People from Hesse-Nassau
East German writers
East German women
German science fiction writers
Writers from Thuringia
German women writers
German women short story writers
German short story writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
20th-century German women
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