Arndt Ellmer

Atlan #45 (Intraworld)
The Flame Symbol

Perry Rhodan
Pocket Book # 410
Spaceship for Sale

Perry Rhodan Author's Profile

Arndt Ellmer

Arndt Ellmer (Wolfgang Kehlhas) has the hottest link to the Perry Rhodan Readers. He lives in the southern Black Forest and is a PR author since 1983. He is responsible for the weekly Readers Feedback Column (Leserkontaktseite or LKS) through which the readers communicate with each other, the publishing house or voice their opinion.
»Letters to Perry Rhodan have the highest priority,« characterizes Arndt Ellmer his work. »Without the direct contact to the readers, the series would have never been this successful.« Many letters and e-mails arrive at the publishing house every week.

Arndt Ellmer condenses the letters and publishes them weekly as part of the LKS, while he's answering each letter, even those that don't make it into the LKS. »The readers expect answers to their letters, may it be in response to critique, praise or suggestions.« This is not always easy, »Some readers see me as their personal "Confession Father" as some of the letters also reflect personal circumstances.« No wonder that Arndt Ellmer is also nicknamed: "LKS Uncle".

Arndt Ellmer, born 1954, established his relationship with Science Fiction relatively early in life. »At age eight, I discovered the stars. I saw they really existed - those distant suns. A small book about the starry sky fulfilled my dream about infinity. This dream is still alive today.« This was possibly the reason why Arndt Ellmer never lost contact with "fantastic Literatur" during his times as a student in school and at the university where he studied Philology (Linguistics).

His first fan fiction stories where written in the 70's; and his first novel published in 1980 by Zauberkreis Publishing. This was quickly followed by more novels. Also in 1980, the PERRY RHODAN pocket book # 213
»Weg in die Unendlichkeit« (Path to Infinity) was released. In 1981, Arndt Ellmer, joined the Atlan Team and in 1983 he then joined the Perry Rhodan Authors Team. Additional, numerous, single novels were released, among them the well received cycle about the »Sternenkinder« (Star Children or Stellar Children).

Arndt Ellmer has written more than 100 PERRY RHODAN Novels in addition to 20 PERRY RHODAN pocket books and the Hardcover »Im Netz der Nonggo« (Caught in the Nonggo Net ), with which he started the Authors Library in Autumn of 2000.

His Blues CD-Rom explores new ways in introducing one of the many exotic peoples of the PERRY RHODAN series.
Arndt Ellmer was however, not always involved in Perry Rhodan and successfully explored different genres. He wrote series such as: »Der Hexer« (The Sorcerer), »Die Ufo-Akten« (UFO Files) , »Vampira«, »Dämonenland« (Demonland) and others. He was also writing crime novels, romance novels as well as audio plays under different pseudonyms. Last but not least, he was also involved in a TV-crime thriller.

Adaptation: MK

Source: PMV

Ertugrul Edirne

Assassination on Arkon

Caught in the Hyperstorm

Perry Rhodan Artist Profile

Ertugrul Edirne

Ertugrul in his own words:

I was born on the 2nd of January 1954 in Istanbul, Turkey. My love for drawing pictures was inspired by popular posters of Italo-Westerns in the 1960's. I spent hours in lobbies and cinema entrances, admiring and looking at these posters.

My own creations didn't see the light of day until way into the future. In the beginning, I just imitated American Tarzan Comics. I had so much fun with it that I decided to enroll at the Istanbul Academy of Arts in 1970.
Five years later, near the end of my last year, I worked as a comic strip artist for the largest daily Turkish newspaper, instead of pursuing"serious" Art. The stories were derived from famous masters of Turkish literature and were very successful. During this time, I developed my own, fast drawing style and continually improved my techniques.

Colorful illustrations by Masters like Frank Frazetta, more and more influenced my view and I began to explore the realm of air-brushing, while I was also trying my luck in the field of advertising. This however, estranged me over time from my way of art creation as I really liked it. I then decided to mainly create colorful Western posters, which I sent to German publishers. The reason to opt for Germany lies in the fact that I was working on comic strips for the APS Agency at that time. APS did not only have studios in Germany but also in Istanbul This all happened in 1978. My posters, still unsigned, were so successful that I dared to move to Germany to continue my work in Cologne. I still work and live in Cologne today, although I also have a studio in Turkey where I go sometimes for a couple of months.

My workload was enormous. To draw a cover - without sketches - I usually need four days, whereas I can finish up to five covers each month. I'm literally booked solid. During the mid 80's, I drew about a thousand covers for novels, comic books even complete comic series such as: "Manos", "Luc Orient", "Geister-Geschichten" (Ghost Stories) and "Captain Concho". These were mostly Western and Fantasy themes, published by various publishing houses like: Bastei, Heyne, Goldmann and Pabel. Then in 1985, I was introduced to the Becker-Derouet Agency, which is still today looking after me, and I began drawing Posters for Videos. After that, I mostly created Poster-Art, which made me become interested in the movies. Today, I'm a proud owner of a sizable video collection, making many people pale in envy.

Currently, I prefer photo-realistic and colorful interpretations with lots of action and effects.

Adapted and interpreted by Michael Koeckritz

Source: PMV

The monthly TRI Cartoon

Created by Reinhard Habeck

http://www.reinhardhabeck.com/

Reinhard Habeck

TRI Note to the readers

The TRI home page has moved to: www.team-rhodan-international.net

The new web space now also includes a Bulletin Board with several different Fora. Everyone is welcome to join the Bulletin Board and participate in the different discussion sections. New discussion sections or areas, also called "Forum", can be created if the need arises or readers think that it could be useful.

It is planned to use the old TRI web URL: www.team-rhodan-international.org as a future Perry Rhodan in English Fan Club domain.

You will still be able to reach the current setup and pages at: http://ca.geocities.com/perry-rhodan-ca@rogers.com/ except that the pages will not be updated after the new web site has been upgraded and the move completed.

We hope to be able to improve the service to the English language Perry Rhodan Community. Suggestions and critique is welcome.
Since the web site is not a 40 hour per week endeavor, some sections will grow slower than others.

TRI's association with Scifi-world.de, the home of the NEBULAR Series, allows us to represent and publish the most promising, German web-based science fiction series of recent history under the domain. There is a lot to come ...

We hope you will enjoy it.

Sincerely

Mic

Perry Rhodan 45 Years!!!

Klaus N. Frick

Flamedust Cycle
Between Dimensions

2006, an action year, celebrating 45 Years of Perry Rhodan.

By Klaus N. Frick

2 January 2006

On 8 September 2006 it will be 45 years since the first PERRY RHODAN novel »Unternehmen Stardust« (Mission STARDUST or Endeavor STARDUST) was released, a success story second to none. Reason enough for the PERRY RHODAN Editorial Team and the Pabel-Moewig Publishing House, as well as all our partners, to celebrate this event properly.

This article lists all the different activities planned for this anniversary year 2006. This way everybody can see what to expect and celebrate together with us. This is what we have in mind, if everything comes to pass as we have planned it, certainly, we cannot predict to a hundred percent accuracy at this point in time that everything goes right:

We will start in March 2006: At the Leipzig Bookfair, Hannibal Publishing, will present the illustrated book »AllMächtiger! - Faszination PERRY RHODAN«. (AllMighty! - Fascination Perry Rhodan) The special hard cover edition with 384 pages in a large format will cost € 49,90 Euro. The book's author is Eckhard Schwettmann, former Chief of Marketing of PERRY RHODAN and Publishing House director. He will present the series from his personal point of view in addition to over 3000 photographs and illustrations.

We'll continue in June 2006: PERRY RHODAN will return to the United States - the English version of the LEMURIA-Cycle will be released by the American subsidiary of Fantasy Productions, which among other things, publishes »Shadowrun« and »Battletech«.

New dimensions will be explored in August 2006 with Audio Plays by Lübbe Audio, one of the largest German language Audio Play producers. Assisted by Frank Böhmert, Lübbe Audio will release six Audio Plays at the same time, all based on the Perry Rhodan »Der Sternenozean« (Star Ocean or Stellar Ocean) cycle, issues 2200 to 2299, followed by an additional six episodes in Autumn 2006. Each CD will cost €7,95 Euro.

Another Highlight will be the PERRY RHODAN Computer game in October 2006, produced by Braingame, specializing in high quality games. This game will be based on a story by PERRY RHODAN Chief Author Robert Feldhoff. PERRY RHODAN Graphic Artist Dirk Schulz will create the graphics for the game. The game will be presented on several conventions, starting at the Leipzig Games Convention in August 2006.

And there is more:
March 2006 will see the launch of a new ATLAN Mini Cycle »Flammenstaub« (Flamedust), again with 12 episodes every two weeks. The mini cycle will introduce a couple of guest authors as well as some new graphics artists.

Perry Rhodan novel 2350 will be released on 1 September 2006, the midpoint of the current TERRANOVA Cycle and introduce a new plot. A new pocket book cycle will also be released in 2006 by Heyne Publishing - as far as we can tell at this time.

There's a lot to look forward to; and one thing can be said in advance: "It won't be a boring year 2006!"

Article by Klaus N. Frick, PMV, 2006

Adapted and interpreted by MK

Perry Rhodan by Renato Casaro

TRI-Giveaway

To start this anniversary year with something special, we invite the Galactic News Readers to participate in the:

TRI - Perry Rhodan and Atlan Quiz.

Send the answers to: TRI-Quiz
Deadline is the 25 February 2006, 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5)

1. Prize: a Perry Rhodan poster by Renato Casaro (32 by 23 Inches)

2. Prize: a new take of the "Mission STARDUST" (Endeavor STARDUST) Moon surface poster
by Swen Papenbrock (32 by 23 Inches)

3. Prize: an Arkon Poster

All winners will also get some Perry Rhodan stickers as well as a set of Perry Rhodan Postcards.

The contest is open to all Galactic News readers, including TRI members and Nebular members, as long as they are not associated with the Galactic News or PMV.

Answers must be in English!

Rules: If there is more than one correct submission, the Bonus Question will be applied, otherwise the lot will decide who will get the first, second and third prize.
In the event that none of the entries get all questions correctly answered, the ones closest to a maximum of 10 points + Bonus Question (one point for each correctly answered question) will then be awarded the prize. Here again, if there are multiple entries with the same amount of points, the lot will decide.

An Arkonide 5 D Math question will need to be solved by all entries. (just kidding)

There are no legal remedies.

Here are the questions:

1. When did the STARDUST lift off to the Moon? (Exact date and Time)

2. Where was Alan D. Mercant's Headquarters located at the time the STARDUST returned to Earth?

3. Who was the commander of the STARDUST II Moon-Rocket?

4. Who bit his tongue on the flight to the Moon?

5. What was Thora's family name (Dynasty)?

6. On which planet was Gucky (Pucky) born?

7. What was the name of the planet, Perry Rhodan and Atlan fought each other almost losing their lives?

8. In what year did Atlan ascend to the Throne of Arkon?

9. Who was in charge of the Explorer Fleet?

10. When was the Perry Rhodan Series launched in Germany? (Correct Date)

Bonus Question: Where and when was Mic born?

You may consult all resources available on the net.

The prizes were donated by Pabel-Moewig Publishing. With a special thanks to Miriam Hofheinz.

Good Luck!!

Ad Astra.

Mic

Galactic News Preview

February 2006

Author profile: Hubert Haensel. (if possible)

Intro to Graphic Artist: Oliver Scholl. (if possible)

TRI-Used Bookstore

Perry Rhodan, Atlan, Utopia, Sci Fi, hard-to-come-by items. Out of print stuff ...

Please follow the link for detailed information. It's worth it!

TRI-Bookstore

Arndt Ellmer Atlan #45 (Intraworld) The Flame Symbol Perry Rhodan Pocket Book # 410 Spaceship for Sale	Perry Rhodan Author's Profile Arndt Ellmer Arndt Ellmer (Wolfgang Kehlhas) has the hottest link to the Perry Rhodan Readers. He lives in the southern Black Forest and is a PR author since 1983. He is responsible for the weekly Readers Feedback Column (Leserkontaktseite or LKS) through which the readers communicate with each other, the publishing house or voice their opinion. »Letters to Perry Rhodan have the highest priority,« characterizes Arndt Ellmer his work. »Without the direct contact to the readers, the series would have never been this successful.« Many letters and e-mails arrive at the publishing house every week. Arndt Ellmer condenses the letters and publishes them weekly as part of the LKS, while he's answering each letter, even those that don't make it into the LKS. »The readers expect answers to their letters, may it be in response to critique, praise or suggestions.« This is not always easy, »Some readers see me as their personal "Confession Father" as some of the letters also reflect personal circumstances.« No wonder that Arndt Ellmer is also nicknamed: "LKS Uncle". Arndt Ellmer, born 1954, established his relationship with Science Fiction relatively early in life. »At age eight, I discovered the stars. I saw they really existed - those distant suns. A small book about the starry sky fulfilled my dream about infinity. This dream is still alive today.« This was possibly the reason why Arndt Ellmer never lost contact with "fantastic Literatur" during his times as a student in school and at the university where he studied Philology (Linguistics). His first fan fiction stories where written in the 70's; and his first novel published in 1980 by Zauberkreis Publishing. This was quickly followed by more novels. Also in 1980, the PERRY RHODAN pocket book # 213 »Weg in die Unendlichkeit« (Path to Infinity) was released. In 1981, Arndt Ellmer, joined the Atlan Team and in 1983 he then joined the Perry Rhodan Authors Team. Additional, numerous, single novels were released, among them the well received cycle about the »Sternenkinder« (Star Children or Stellar Children). Arndt Ellmer has written more than 100 PERRY RHODAN Novels in addition to 20 PERRY RHODAN pocket books and the Hardcover »Im Netz der Nonggo« (Caught in the Nonggo Net ), with which he started the Authors Library in Autumn of 2000. His Blues CD-Rom explores new ways in introducing one of the many exotic peoples of the PERRY RHODAN series. Arndt Ellmer was however, not always involved in Perry Rhodan and successfully explored different genres. He wrote series such as: »Der Hexer« (The Sorcerer), »Die Ufo-Akten« (UFO Files) , »Vampira«, »Dämonenland« (Demonland) and others. He was also writing crime novels, romance novels as well as audio plays under different pseudonyms. Last but not least, he was also involved in a TV-crime thriller. Adaptation: MK Source: PMV
Ertugrul Edirne Assassination on Arkon Caught in the Hyperstorm	Perry Rhodan Artist Profile Ertugrul Edirne Ertugrul in his own words: I was born on the 2nd of January 1954 in Istanbul, Turkey. My love for drawing pictures was inspired by popular posters of Italo-Westerns in the 1960's. I spent hours in lobbies and cinema entrances, admiring and looking at these posters. My own creations didn't see the light of day until way into the future. In the beginning, I just imitated American Tarzan Comics. I had so much fun with it that I decided to enroll at the Istanbul Academy of Arts in 1970. Five years later, near the end of my last year, I worked as a comic strip artist for the largest daily Turkish newspaper, instead of pursuing"serious" Art. The stories were derived from famous masters of Turkish literature and were very successful. During this time, I developed my own, fast drawing style and continually improved my techniques. Colorful illustrations by Masters like Frank Frazetta, more and more influenced my view and I began to explore the realm of air-brushing, while I was also trying my luck in the field of advertising. This however, estranged me over time from my way of art creation as I really liked it. I then decided to mainly create colorful Western posters, which I sent to German publishers. The reason to opt for Germany lies in the fact that I was working on comic strips for the APS Agency at that time. APS did not only have studios in Germany but also in Istanbul This all happened in 1978. My posters, still unsigned, were so successful that I dared to move to Germany to continue my work in Cologne. I still work and live in Cologne today, although I also have a studio in Turkey where I go sometimes for a couple of months. My workload was enormous. To draw a cover - without sketches - I usually need four days, whereas I can finish up to five covers each month. I'm literally booked solid. During the mid 80's, I drew about a thousand covers for novels, comic books even complete comic series such as: "Manos", "Luc Orient", "Geister-Geschichten" (Ghost Stories) and "Captain Concho". These were mostly Western and Fantasy themes, published by various publishing houses like: Bastei, Heyne, Goldmann and Pabel. Then in 1985, I was introduced to the Becker-Derouet Agency, which is still today looking after me, and I began drawing Posters for Videos. After that, I mostly created Poster-Art, which made me become interested in the movies. Today, I'm a proud owner of a sizable video collection, making many people pale in envy. Currently, I prefer photo-realistic and colorful interpretations with lots of action and effects. Adapted and interpreted by Michael Koeckritz Source: PMV
The monthly TRI Cartoon Created by Reinhard Habeck http://www.reinhardhabeck.com/ Reinhard Habeck
	TRI Note to the readers The TRI home page has moved to: www.team-rhodan-international.net The new web space now also includes a Bulletin Board with several different Fora. Everyone is welcome to join the Bulletin Board and participate in the different discussion sections. New discussion sections or areas, also called "Forum", can be created if the need arises or readers think that it could be useful. It is planned to use the old TRI web URL: www.team-rhodan-international.org as a future Perry Rhodan in English Fan Club domain. You will still be able to reach the current setup and pages at: http://ca.geocities.com/perry-rhodan-ca@rogers.com/ except that the pages will not be updated after the new web site has been upgraded and the move completed. We hope to be able to improve the service to the English language Perry Rhodan Community. Suggestions and critique is welcome. Since the web site is not a 40 hour per week endeavor, some sections will grow slower than others. TRI's association with Scifi-world.de, the home of the NEBULAR Series, allows us to represent and publish the most promising, German web-based science fiction series of recent history under the domain. There is a lot to come ... We hope you will enjoy it. Sincerely Mic
Perry Rhodan 45 Years!!! Klaus N. Frick Flamedust Cycle Between Dimensions	2006, an action year, celebrating 45 Years of Perry Rhodan. By Klaus N. Frick 2 January 2006 On 8 September 2006 it will be 45 years since the first PERRY RHODAN novel »Unternehmen Stardust« (Mission STARDUST or Endeavor STARDUST) was released, a success story second to none. Reason enough for the PERRY RHODAN Editorial Team and the Pabel-Moewig Publishing House, as well as all our partners, to celebrate this event properly. This article lists all the different activities planned for this anniversary year 2006. This way everybody can see what to expect and celebrate together with us. This is what we have in mind, if everything comes to pass as we have planned it, certainly, we cannot predict to a hundred percent accuracy at this point in time that everything goes right: We will start in March 2006: At the Leipzig Bookfair, Hannibal Publishing, will present the illustrated book »AllMächtiger! - Faszination PERRY RHODAN«. (AllMighty! - Fascination Perry Rhodan) The special hard cover edition with 384 pages in a large format will cost € 49,90 Euro. The book's author is Eckhard Schwettmann, former Chief of Marketing of PERRY RHODAN and Publishing House director. He will present the series from his personal point of view in addition to over 3000 photographs and illustrations. We'll continue in June 2006: PERRY RHODAN will return to the United States - the English version of the LEMURIA-Cycle will be released by the American subsidiary of Fantasy Productions, which among other things, publishes »Shadowrun« and »Battletech«. New dimensions will be explored in August 2006 with Audio Plays by Lübbe Audio, one of the largest German language Audio Play producers. Assisted by Frank Böhmert, Lübbe Audio will release six Audio Plays at the same time, all based on the Perry Rhodan »Der Sternenozean« (Star Ocean or Stellar Ocean) cycle, issues 2200 to 2299, followed by an additional six episodes in Autumn 2006. Each CD will cost €7,95 Euro. Another Highlight will be the PERRY RHODAN Computer game in October 2006, produced by Braingame, specializing in high quality games. This game will be based on a story by PERRY RHODAN Chief Author Robert Feldhoff. PERRY RHODAN Graphic Artist Dirk Schulz will create the graphics for the game. The game will be presented on several conventions, starting at the Leipzig Games Convention in August 2006. And there is more: March 2006 will see the launch of a new ATLAN Mini Cycle »Flammenstaub« (Flamedust), again with 12 episodes every two weeks. The mini cycle will introduce a couple of guest authors as well as some new graphics artists. Perry Rhodan novel 2350 will be released on 1 September 2006, the midpoint of the current TERRANOVA Cycle and introduce a new plot. A new pocket book cycle will also be released in 2006 by Heyne Publishing - as far as we can tell at this time. There's a lot to look forward to; and one thing can be said in advance: "It won't be a boring year 2006!" Article by Klaus N. Frick, PMV, 2006 Adapted and interpreted by MK

Perry Rhodan by Renato Casaro	TRI-Giveaway To start this anniversary year with something special, we invite the Galactic News Readers to participate in the: TRI - Perry Rhodan and Atlan Quiz. Send the answers to: TRI-Quiz Deadline is the 25 February 2006, 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5) 1. Prize: a Perry Rhodan poster by Renato Casaro (32 by 23 Inches) 2. Prize: a new take of the "Mission STARDUST" (Endeavor STARDUST) Moon surface poster by Swen Papenbrock (32 by 23 Inches) 3. Prize: an Arkon Poster All winners will also get some Perry Rhodan stickers as well as a set of Perry Rhodan Postcards. The contest is open to all Galactic News readers, including TRI members and Nebular members, as long as they are not associated with the Galactic News or PMV. Answers must be in English! Rules: If there is more than one correct submission, the Bonus Question will be applied, otherwise the lot will decide who will get the first, second and third prize. In the event that none of the entries get all questions correctly answered, the ones closest to a maximum of 10 points + Bonus Question (one point for each correctly answered question) will then be awarded the prize. Here again, if there are multiple entries with the same amount of points, the lot will decide. An Arkonide 5 D Math question will need to be solved by all entries. (just kidding) There are no legal remedies. Here are the questions: 1. When did the STARDUST lift off to the Moon? (Exact date and Time) 2. Where was Alan D. Mercant's Headquarters located at the time the STARDUST returned to Earth? 3. Who was the commander of the STARDUST II Moon-Rocket? 4. Who bit his tongue on the flight to the Moon? 5. What was Thora's family name (Dynasty)? 6. On which planet was Gucky (Pucky) born? 7. What was the name of the planet, Perry Rhodan and Atlan fought each other almost losing their lives? 8. In what year did Atlan ascend to the Throne of Arkon? 9. Who was in charge of the Explorer Fleet? 10. When was the Perry Rhodan Series launched in Germany? (Correct Date) Bonus Question: Where and when was Mic born? You may consult all resources available on the net. The prizes were donated by Pabel-Moewig Publishing. With a special thanks to Miriam Hofheinz. Good Luck!! Ad Astra. Mic

	Galactic News Preview February 2006 Author profile: Hubert Haensel. (if possible) Intro to Graphic Artist: Oliver Scholl. (if possible)
	TRI-Used Bookstore Perry Rhodan, Atlan, Utopia, Sci Fi, hard-to-come-by items. Out of print stuff ... Please follow the link for detailed information. It's worth it! TRI-Bookstore


Issue #16, 31 January 2006