André Bawar

André Bawar (born August 6, 1962 in Schleswig ), real name Thorsten Pietsch , is a German crime writer .

Life

André Bawar grew up under the name Thorsten Pietsch in Schleswig-Holstein , graduated from high school in Hamburg and studied communication sciences and sociology at the Free University in Berlin . For twenty years he worked as a freelance journalist for various television stations, first in youth programs, then in the cultural and entertainment sectors, and later as a sports reporter.

Between 2009 and 2012 André Bawar wrote a tetralogy of novels about the fictional superintendent Olaf "Ole" Hansen from Wismar . The criminal cases always have their starting point in the old Hanseatic city and are mainly located in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or on the north German Baltic coast. Besides being a regional crime thriller , these novels can also be classified in the comic crime thriller category because of the satirical and sometimes comic elements they contain . André Bawar counts the popular Austrian crime writer Wolf Haas among his literary role models .

After completing the Wismar tetralogy, the author reoriented himself stylistically. His psychological thriller Amok Baby (2015) takes place in Berlin and deals with a series of murders in the medical community.

He currently lives as a novelist with his family in Berlin and temporarily on Naxos .

bibliography

• Salmon blood , Emons-Verlag, Cologne, March 2010. ISBN 978-3-89705-706-7 .
• Wismarbucht , Emons-Verlag, Cologne, September 2010. ISBN 978-3-89705-750-0 .
• Poeler Pokale , Emons-Verlag, Cologne, March 2011. ISBN 978-3-89705-806-4 .
• Abgetakelt , Emons-Verlag, Cologne, October 2012. ISBN 978-3-95451-008-5 .
• Amok Baby , Emons-Verlag, Cologne, March 2015. ISBN 978-3-95451-476-2 .

Web links

• new homepage , accessed on December 1, 2015
• Author's homepage , accessed March 3, 2015
• Author's page on Facebook , accessed October 24, 2014