Karsten Kruschel


Karsten Kruschel is a German science fiction writer, essayist and critic, who lives near Leipzig. His best known works are the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis winning novels Vilm and Galdäa. Some of his short stories were nominated for or won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis.
Kruschel is the younger son of the writer Heinz Kruschel. He grew up in Magdeburg and studied History and German Philology. Later he became a teacher and a copy editor.
He received his doctorate in German Philology in 1991 by writing a dissertation about the science fiction literature in the GDR. "Karsten Kruschel refers to the ambivalence in ambiguous utopie in terms of 'the presence of a variety of possible interpretations'. He uses the category of ambiguous utopia to characterize those novels of this period that were neither utopia or dystopia", says Sonja Fritzsche about it.
His first professional publication was a short story, published in 1979 in German magazine neues leben. His books won the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis twice, in 2010 and 2012. In 2010 he became a freelance writer.

Novels

Vilm-Series
  • * Vilm. Der Regenplanet, 2009
  • * Vilm. Die Eingeborenen, 2009
  • * Vilm. Das Dickicht, 2013 Galdäa. Der ungeschlagene Krieg, 2011 Das Universum nach Landau. Roman in Dokumenten und Novellen, 2016

Short story collections

Raumsprünge, 1985 Das kleinere Weltall, 1989 Armageddon mon amour - Fünf Visionen vom Ende, 2012

Others

Spielwelten zwischen Wunschbild und Warnbild. Utopisches und Dystopisches in der SF-Literatur der DDR in den achtziger Jahren, 1995

Awards