Alexander Pfeiffer

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Alexander Pfeiffer (born August 12, 1971 in Wiesbaden ) is a German writer .

Life

Alexander Pfeiffer studied German , comparative literature , journalism and English at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . He works as a freelance author , publisher , literature organizer, moderator and manager of writing workshops in schools and other educational institutions. He organized various series of readings and literature festivals in Wiesbaden and the Rhine-Main area (including the "Hessisch-Sächsischen Literaturtage" 2009 in Frankfurt am Main or the monthly literature show "Where the wild words are" from 1998 to 2006 in the Schlachthof cultural center ( Wiesbaden) ). Pfeiffer is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) and of the German-language crime literature group Das Syndikat . From 2007 to 2014 he was the Hessian state chairman of the Association of German Writers (VS), from 2009 to 2012 jury secretary for the Friedrich Glauser Prize , the authors' crime prize , in the debut category.

Since 2012 he has been organizing the accompanying program to the annual Wiesbaden crime scholarship for the cultural office of the state capital Wiesbaden (2012 for Stefan Slupetzky , 2013 for Andrea Maria Schenkel , 2014 for Doris Gercke ).

In May 2017 he married the author Mara Pfeiffer .

Awards

In 2014 Pfeiffer received the Friedrich-Glauser-Preis , detective award of the authors, in the category of short crime novels for the story “On your Lids I sink slumber” (published in: “Küche, Diele, Mord”, publisher: Almuth Heuner, KBV-Verlag , Hillesheim 2013)

bibliography

Books

  • Ed .: KrimiKommunale 3 . Short thrillers. Kommunal- und Schul-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8293-1023-9
  • Ed .: KrimiKommunale 2 . Short thrillers. Kommunal- und Schul-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8293-0967-7
  • Ed .: KrimiKommunale . Short thrillers. Kommunal- und Schul-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8293-0955-4
  • The end of the song . Novel. Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-7973-1108-5
  • Like through fire . Novel. Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-7973-0997-X
  • In the belly of the city . Novel. Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-7973-0931-7
  • Favorite songs . Stories. Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt 2004, ISBN 3-937101-26-8
  • Notes from the intermediate world . Poems. Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt 2002, ISBN 3-932497-82-1
  • Inner City Blues. Stories from the heart of the city . Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt 2001, ISBN 3-932497-57-0

Book chapters (selection)

  • Short story "Get Singer", in: "Mit Schirm, Charme und Pistole", Ed .: Eva Lirot & Hughes Schlueter, KBV-Verlag, Hillesheim 2014
  • Short story "The night, the city and death", in: "Kurzer Prozess", Ed .: Almuth Heuner, Brücken Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013
  • Short story "I sink slumber on your lids", in: "Küche, Diele, Mord", Ed .: Almuth Heuner, KBV-Verlag, Hillesheim 2013
  • Short story "A Filzlaus auf dem Limpertsberg", in: "Luxemburger Leichen", Ed .: Eva Lirot & Hughes Schlueter, KBV-Verlag, Hillesheim 2013
  • Short prose “Hotel Sehnsucht”, in: “Where I live. A literary approach to the literary land of Hesse ", Ed .: Ruth Fühner, Jonas Verlag , Marburg 2012
  • Short story "The gate to the outside", in: "Tod im Taunus", Ed .: Richard Lifka, KBV-Verlag, Hillesheim 2011
  • Short story "Johnny will die ... but not of boredom", in: "Punk Stories", Ed .: Thomas Kraft u. a., Verlag LangenMüller , Munich 2011
  • Short story "Last Halali", in: "Nordeifel Mordeifel", Ed .: Ralf Kramp , KBV-Verlag, Hillesheim 2010
  • Short story "Closer, my God, to you", in: "Tatorte Odenwald - legendary murderous", Ed .: Lothar Ruske, Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009
  • Poem "A city made of beer and Scotch and music", in: "Stadtgeschehen bei Mischwetter", Ed .: Tobias Kunze, SchöneworthVerlag, Hannover 2006
  • Short story "Riding down that same old lane on a Saturday night", in: "Rock'n'Roll Adventures", Ed .: Öhrlich Bros., Bench Press Publishing, Grabenstetten 2000
  • Poem "Poem on my street corner", in: "Kaltland Beat. New German Scene ", Ed .: Boris Kerenski & Sergiu Ştefănescu, Ithaka Verlag, Stuttgart 1999
  • Poem “Sunday afternoon in a dead city”, in: “text. magazine for literatures / 3-4 1998 “, Ed .: Boris Kerenski & Sergiu Ştefănescu, Ithaka Verlag, Stuttgart 1998
  • Poem “Self-Eradication Blues”, in: “Social Beat, Slam! Poetry: The extra-literary opposition speaks out! ”, Ed .: Michael and Joachim Schönauer, Killroy Media , Asperg 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A couple of words say yes in the Literaturhaus: Mara Braun and Alexander Pfeiffer got married sensor-wiesbaden, accessed on May 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden