A review is made of the odderon idea in high-energy physics, complemented by an outline of the recent calculations of the odderon properties in the perturbative QCD. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RA 2999(98-055) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman