Hans Joachim Alpers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hans Joachim Alpers

German writer

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1943

Place of Birth: Bremerhaven, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Feb-2011

Profession: writer, translator, editor, journalist, literary editor, publisher, science fiction writer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Hans Joachim Alpers (July 14, 1943 – February 16, 2011) was a German writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy.
Together with Werner Fuchs and Ulrich Kiesow he founded Fantasy Productions, which became one of the premier German RPG- and board game producers and retailers.
He was born in Bremerhaven. As an editor he co-founded the highly successful German-language role-playing game The Dark Eye and the Science Fiction Times and as a critic he was a contributor to Science Fiction Studies.
As a writer he used several pseudonyms including Jürgen Andreas, Thorn Forrester, Daniel Herbst, Gregory Kern, Mischa Morrison, P.T.
Vieton, and Jörn de Vries.
He won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the novels Das zerrissene Land and Die graue Eminenz.
He also co-wrote a six-volume series of young-adult SF with Ronald M.
Hahn Das Raumschiff der Kinder (translates as "The Children's Spaceship").He edited anthologies, annual publications, and reference works.
Anthologies included Science Fiction aus Deutschland: 24 Stories von 20 Autoren (1974).
Annual publications included the Science-fiction-Almanach (1981–1987) and Science-fiction-Jahrbuch (1983–1987).
Reference works included Reclams Science-fiction-Führer (1982), Lexikon der Science-fiction-Literatur (1980, 1988), Lexikon der Horrorliteratur (1999), and Lexikon der Fantasy-Literatur (2005).He lived in Hamburg. In 2012 he was awarded a posthumous special Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for his many years of contributing to German-language SF.