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Herbert W. Franke
Herbert W. Franke

Herbert W. Franke (Born May 14, 1927 in Vienna) is one of the most important science fiction authors in the German language. Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He is also active in the fields of future research, speleology as well as computer graphics and digital art. Futures Studies, Foresight, or Futurology is the science art and practice of postulating possible probable and preferable futures and the worldviews Speleology is the scientific study of Caves and other Karst features their make-up structure physical properties history life forms and the processes by Computer graphics are Graphics created by Computers and more generally the Representation and Manipulation of Pictorial Data Digital art most commonly refers to Art created on a Computer in Digital form

Franke studied physics, mathematics, chemistry, psychology and philosophy in Vienna. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1950 by writing a dissertation about electron optics. Since 1957, he has worked as a freelance author. From 1973 to 1997 he held a lectureship in "Cybernetical Aesthetic" at Munich University (later computer graphics - computer art). The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München also known as LMU, is a University in Munich and with more In 1979, he co-founded Ars Electronica in Linz/Austria. Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art technology and society that was part of the International In 1979 and 1980, he lectured in "introduction to perception psychology" at the Bielefeld University of Design. Also in 1980 he became a selected member of the German PEN club. A pen (Latin pinna, feather is a Writing instrument used to apply Ink to a surface usually Paper. A collection of essays titled "The Green Comet" was his first book publication. In 1998, Franke attended a Siggraph Art Show in Orlando and was a juror at "VideoMath Festival" Konrad Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin. SIGGRAPH (short for S pecial I nterest G roup on GRAPH ics and Interactive Techniques is the name of the annual conference on Computer graphics Orlando is a major City in central Florida, USA and is the County seat of Orange County Florida. Konrad Zuse (ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə June 22, 1910 Berlin - December 18, 1995 Hünfeld) was a German Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. He also took part in innumerable performances and presentations.


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The well-known weekly German newspaper "Die Zeit" calls him "the most prominent German writing Science Fiction author". DIE ZEIT (diː tsait in German literally The Time more idiomatically The Times) is a German nationwide weekly Newspaper that

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