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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0707.00010.] For a coherent sheaf \({\mathcal M}\) of \({\mathcal O}_ X\)-modules on a rigid analytic Stein space \(X\), the author proves a Serre-duality, i.e. perfect topological pairing between the cohomology groups \(H_ c^ i(X,{\mathcal M})\) with ``compact support'' and the groups \(\hbox {Ext}_ X^{n- i}({\mathcal M},\Omega_ X^ n)\) (\(n\) being the dimension of \(X\)). For ths purpose a suitable notion of ``compact support'' is introduced for an arbitrary rigid analytic variety (over an algebraically closed field). The theorem is first proved for the structure sheaf on \(A_ K^ n\), then for arbitrary coherent sheaves on \(A_ K^ n\), and finally for Stein spaces using the fact that any Stein space can be embedded into an affine space. The result of this paper has recently been extended by M. van der Put to the case of a variety which is smooth and proper over an affinoid space.