Wolfgang Schreyer

Wolfgang Schreyer (20 November 1927 – 14 November 2017) was a German writer of fiction, historic adventures mixed with documentary, science fiction for TV shows and movies and is best known as the author of over 20 adventure stories.
Life
Wolfgang Schreyer was born the son of a pharmacist. On leaving secondary school he was conscripted as a Flakhelfer before, in April 1944, he joined the Nazi Party and served in the Wehrmacht. He became a POW and was released by the Americans in 1946. From 1947 until 1949 he was a chemists' apprentice, working in that profession until 1950. From 1950 to 1952, he was the manager of a pharmaceutical company in the German Democratic Republic.
Since the publication of his first crime novel, Großgarage Südwest, he worked as a freelance author. He travelled several times to the Caribbean and to the United States. Since 1958, the GDR's Staatssicherheitsdienst (Stasi) kept him under special surveillance. Until 1972 Schreyer lived in Magdeburg; since then he lived in Ahrenshoop on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Schreyer was the author of numerous novels, which are mainly considered entertainment, containing some criticism of society. Most successful were the stories set in Central America and the Caribbean, in which he skillfully mixed fiction and documentary. Other works are crime stories, a science-fiction story, film scripts, TV and radio drama. Having sold more than five million copies, Schreyer is considered one of the most successful East German authors.
In 1956, Schreyer was awarded the Heinrich-Mann-Preis. Since 1952,he was a member of the East German authors guild, since 1974 a member of P.E.N.; and since German reunification in 1990 he was a member of the German authors guild.
Schreyer died on 14 November 2017 at the age of 89.
Work
Großgarage Südwest, Berlin 1952
Mit Kräuterschnaps und Gottvertrauen, Berlin 1953
Unternehmen "Thunderstorm", Berlin 1954
Die Banknote, Berlin 1955
Schüsse über der Ostsee, Berlin 1956
Der Traum des Hauptmann Loy, Berlin 1956
Das Attentat, Berlin 1957
Der Spion von Akrotiri, Berlin 1957
Alaskafüchse, Berlin 1959
Das grüne Ungeheuer, Berlin 1959
Entscheidung an der Weichsel, Berlin 1960
Tempel des Satans, Berlin 1960
Die Piratenchronik, Berlin 1961 (republished in 1967 as Augen am Himmel: Eine Piratenchronik (Eyes in the sky))
Vampire, Tyrannen, Rebellen, Berlin 1963 (together with Günter Schumacher)
Preludio 11, Berlin 1964
Fremder im Paradies, Halle (Saale) 1966 (republished 1971 within Welt der Abenteuer)
Aufstand des Sisyphos, Berlin 1969 (together with Jürgen Hell)
Der gelbe Hai, Berlin 1969
Bananengangster, Berlin 1970
Der Adjutant, Halle (S.) 1971
Der Resident, Halle (Saale) 1973
Tod des Chefs oder Die Liebe zur Opposition, Berlin 1975
Schwarzer Dezember, Halle (Saale) 1977
Die Entführung, Halle [u.a.] 1979
Der Reporter, Halle [u.a.] 1980
Die Suche oder Die Abenteuer des Uwe Reuss, Berlin 1981
Eiskalt im Paradies, Halle [u.a.] 1982
Die fünf Leben des Dr. Gundlach, Berlin 1982
Der Fund oder Die Abenteuer des Uwe Reuss, Berlin 1987
Der Mann auf den Klippen, Berlin 1987
Der sechste Sinn, Halle [u.a.] 1987
Unabwendbar, Berlin 1988
Die Beute, Rostock 1989
Endzeit der Sieger, Halle [u.a.] 1989
Alpträume, Oschersleben 1991
Nebel, Berlin 1991
Das Quartett, Berlin 1994
Der zweite Mann, Berlin 2000
Der Verlust oder Die Abenteuer des Uwe Reuss, Rostock 2001
Das Kurhaus, Rostock 2002
Die Legende, Berlin 2006 (together with Paul Schreyer)
References
External links
Profile at Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur
Profile at mvweb.de
http://www.dielegende.info/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120213134430/http://www.ila-bonn.de/buchbesprechungen/buecher249.htm
1927 births
2017 deaths
Writers from Magdeburg
Writers from the Province of Saxony
Nazi Party members
East German writers
German male novelists
20th-century German male writers
20th-century German novelists
21st-century German novelists
21st-century German male writers
German Army personnel of World War II
German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States
Heinrich Mann Prize winners