author
Albert Daiber
1857–1928
A trained chemist and physician who also wrote imaginative fiction, he stands among the early German authors of utopian and science-fiction stories. His work includes adventurous novels such as Die Weltensegler and Vom Mars zur Erde.
3 Audiobooks
Vom Mars zur Erde
by Albert Daiber
Die Weltensegler. Drei Jahre auf dem Mars.
by Albert Daiber
Per luchtschip "De Argonaut" naar Mars
by Albert Daiber
About the author
Born in Cannstatt in 1857 and dying in Santiago de Chile in 1928, Albert Daiber worked across several fields: he was a chemist, a physician, and a writer. That mix of scientific training and literary curiosity helped shape the tone of his fiction.
Daiber is especially remembered for utopian and early science-fiction writing in German. Sources available here identify him as the author of works including Die Weltensegler and Vom Mars zur Erde, books that helped place him among the early imaginative storytellers of German speculative fiction.
Although he is not as widely known today as some later genre writers, his career is a good example of how science and storytelling often overlapped in turn-of-the-century literature. His books carry the sense of wonder, invention, and future-minded adventure that marked early science fiction.