Manfred Langrenus Sci Fi books, searching for a copy

[bojan]

Looong time ago, as a high school student (and recently, again... as "almost" pensioner), I have read the translation (not english) of SciFi novel "State on the Moon" by Manfred Langrenus (the author's name was actually Friedrich Hecht, and the original title was "Reich im Mond")
Fantastic, captivating, almost Wagnerian story..
The same author wrote the sequel - "Im Banne des Alpha Centauri".

Does anybody know of (possible) english translation of those books?

[glend (Glen)]

I can see several current sources of the original, 1951 publication in German, showing up in searches on Amazon.de so still available. But no translations that i can find.

[bojan]

Originally Posted by glend

It is, in German, showing up in searches on Amazon.de

Yes I know.. unfortunately, I can't read German very well (only very basics, technical text)

[glend (Glen)]

In theory Google could translate it, say a page at a time if you had the patience and could put up with the syntac and other context errors.
Is there a scanning bot app that could do the entire book? BABYLON maybe.

[bojan]

Well, most likely once I am pensioner, I may have a time for translating the translations
However, I would prefer if translation into English was done already (IF this author was ever translated at all..).

[arthurnotthekin (Arthur James)]

I think these books were not translated into English. I tried to search everywhere, but it seems to me that Reich im Mond was tranlsated into Croatian only. If someone has found the translations, I'd appreciate a reference. Google translation is a pain indeed (I remember when I used it to do my homework on Space Robotics, it was a nightmare).