Hans Dominik (writer)

Hans (Joachim) Dominik (15 November 1872 – 9 December 1945 in Berlin) was a German science fiction and non-fiction author, science journalist and engineer (electrical and mechanical).

For other people with the same name, see Hans Dominik.

Hans Dominik
Born(1872-11-15)November 15, 1872
Zwickau
DiedDecember 9, 1945(1945-12-09) (aged 73)
Berlin
OccupationAuthor and engineer
Berlin memorial plaque, Hans Dominik, Bogotastraße 2a, Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany

Born in Zwickau, the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Dominik, a bookseller and editor of periodicals, the young Dominik was educated at the Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha, where his strong subjects were the sciences. He later recalled that he was weaker in dead languages.[1]

Dominik was the author of sixteen science fiction novels, published between 1921 and 1940.[1] One unsympathetic biographer, William B. Fischer, has written of him that “In many ways he was shallow-minded and ignorant, yet pompously opinionated about literature, science, and politics. He was also a racist and chauvinist whose attitudes and works easily lent themselves to the aims of National Socialism.”[1] Despite this, in the 1980s Dominik was still one of the small number of highly popular German-born science fiction writers.[1]

Notes
  1. William B. Fischer, The Empire Strikes Out: Kurd Lasswitz, Hans Dominik, and the Development of German Science Fiction (Popular Press, 1984), pp. 179–180
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