Alexander Bálly (writer)

Alexander Bálly (* 1964 in Neckarau ) is a German writer. He mainly writes crime fiction and short prose .

Life

Bálly grew up in Upper Bavaria and in the Allgäu . After completing an apprenticeship in bookselling , he studied art history and theology in Munich . During his studies and afterwards he worked for several publishing houses and bookstores . In 2000 he moved to Holledau with his family .

Bálly lives in Holledau , north of Munich . He regularly organizes readings in the region, but also beyond. From 2015 to 2018, among many other occasions, he also read regularly at the Leipzig Book Fair as part of the Leipzig Reads series of events . He is married and has a son.

Fantasy thrillers

The first novels are fantasy thrillers. Around the detective working halfling lady Lupina, Bálly combines the classic Whodunnit principle with a richly invented fantasy world, to which he provides additional material such as maps, currencies, measurements or other cultural information both in the books and on his homepage. There are three novels and a prequel in the form of Lupina's diary. The three novels have been reissued in a revised form since 2017.

Christmas stories and poems

The volume nativity stories presents a cycle of 24 stories that repeatedly tell anew about the birth of Christ , each from the perspective of a figure that the reader knows as a typical nativity figure. Because of the many encounters in the limited setting, the individual stories are intertwined into a larger Christmas story. This story covers the entire period from the announcement to Mary to the flight to Egypt . The work was published in 2017 as an illustrated book in a revised edition by Bayerland Verlag .

He was editor and co-author of the anthology The Burning Advent Wreath. This anthology includes various Christmas stories and poems by authors at AAVAA-Verlag.

A collection of Advent Christmas poems for children was published with 24 poems for the long wait . The series of a total of twenty-five poems forms a poetic Advent calendar. It was published by Turmschreiber Verlag in 2017 .

Regional crime stories

In 2014, Alexander Bálly presented his first regional thriller, Der Tote am Maibaum, published by Sutton Verlag. The novel is set in Wolnzach in the Holledau. The main character is Ludwig Wimmer, a peasant butchery retired, who competes with the police with his granddaughter. Unlike the police superintendent, the hobby detectives can always use local gossip as a starting point for their investigations. With Der Tote am Kirchtower , Sutton-Verlag published the second case in this series in 2015. In 2016 he had the third case of his crime series in the same publisher. The fourth case in the series was published in 2018, this time by Emons Verlag .

Publications

• with Tonja Bálly: … and a premiere every day. Sandor Bálly's first year diary. Utz, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-89675-800-4 .
• A matter of life and death. Aavaa, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86254-085-3 .
• For light and perfection. Aavaa, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86254-089-1 .
• Lupina's diary. BookRix, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7309-6854-3 .
• Halfling among whores and scoundrels (Lupina 1). Paper decorator, Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95962-286-8 .

• Nativity stories. A Christmas story - an advent calendar. Aavaa, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86254-529-2 .
• The burning advent wreath. Aavaa, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8459-0152-7 .
• In purity and faith. Aavaa, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8459-0562-4 .
• Nativity stories. Bayerland, Dachau 2017, ISBN 978-3-89251-499-2 .
• 24 poems for the long wait. Husum 2017, ISBN 978-3-938575-47-5 .

• The dead man on the maypole - A Holledau crime thriller. Sutton, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-328-0 .
• The dead man at the church tower - A Holledau thriller. Sutton, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-500-0 .
• One murder and two corpses - an Upper Bavaria thriller. Sutton, Erfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-95400-663-2 .
• Death in the hop garden - Upper Bavaria thriller. Emons, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0034-5 .

Technical article

• Pretzel round in the Pfaffenhofen district library - a low-threshold cultural offer with a regional reference (together with Stephan Ligl) in the Bavarian Library Forum (ISSN: 0340-000X) issue 3/2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander Bálly in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alexander Bálly's website
• Alexander Bálly on Sutton Fiction
• sueddeutsche.de Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
• [1] Website of the Bavarian Library Forum

Reviews

• http://www.phantastik-couch.de/alexander-bally-fuer-licht-und-vollkommenheit.html
• http://www.fictionfantasy.de/eine-frage-von-leben-und-tod
• http://www.fictionfantasy.de/fuer-licht-und-vollkommenheit
• http://www.aavaa-verlag.de/pr/pressestimmen-alexander-bally/
• chiasbuecherecke.blogspot.co.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} alexander-bally.de ( Memento from November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ lupinasfreun.de ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ bookrix.de
4. ↑ aavaa.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )