Andreas Foehr

Andreas Foehr (2010)

Andreas Föhr (born May 21, 1958 in Kreuzthal im Allgäu ) is a German screenwriter and writer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Andreas Föhr studied law in Munich, which was followed by a legal clerkship in Munich and Nairobi . He received a scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law. He wrote his dissertation on the copyright notice. Until 1992 he worked as a lawyer for the Bavarian State Office for New Media .

From 1991 he started his own business as a screenwriter, including for the television series Die Rosenheim-Cops , Der Bulle von Tölz and the Tatort . He also writes alpine homeland crime novels from the Tegernsee area. In addition to the classics of the crime genre John Grisham and Michael Crichton, he also names current authors such as Frank Schätzing and Andreas Eschbach as linguistic and stylistic models . He appreciates the “powerful German” of the local poet Ludwig Thoma .

In 2009, Andreas Föhr started with Der Prinzessinnenmörder , for which he was awarded the prestigious Friedrich Glauser Prize , a crime novel series about Commissioner Clemens Wallner and Police Chief Leonhard Kreuthner. The sometimes bizarre cases are solved by the Miesbach police force against the backdrop of the Upper Bavarian Alpine foothills.

Andreas Föhr is married and lives in Wasserburg am Inn in Upper Bavaria, east of Munich.

Works

Book publications

Andreas Föhr at the Frankfurt / Main Book Fair 2016

Alpine thrillers with the investigator duo Commissioner Wallner and Chief Police Officer Kreuthner

• The princess murderer , Knaur TB , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-66397-4
• Schafkopf , Knaur TB, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-66398-1
• Easter week , Knaur TB, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-65252-7
• Black piste , Knaur TB, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-21353-7
• Sunday of the Dead , Knaur, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-21361-2
• Wolfsschlucht , Knaur, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-426-51704-8
• Schwarzwasser , Knaur, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-65421-7
• Tote Hand , Knaur, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3426654477

Crime with criminal lawyer Dr. Rachel Eisenberg

• Eisenberg , Knaur TB, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-65396-8
• Jealousy , Knaur TB, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-65446-0

Audio books

• The Princess Murderer , Audio Media Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86804-581-9
• Schafkopf , Audio Media Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86804-616-8
• Holy Week , Audio Media Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86804-698-4
• Schwarze Piste , Audio Media Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86804-727-1
• Sunday of the Dead , Audio Media Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8398-1262-4
• Wolfsschlucht , Argon-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-8398-1380-5
• Best of Kreuthner and Wallner , Audio Media Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95639-087-6
• Eisenberg , Argon Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-8398-1456-7
• Schwarzwasser , Argon Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-8398-1530-4
• Jealousy , Argon Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-8398-1606-6

TV scripts (selection)

• 1997: Coast Guard , Fishing Net
• 1998: SOKO 5113 , commissioned murder
• 1998: Mobbing Girls , Between the Chairs
• 1998: Bullying Girls, crime is not worth it
• 1998: Bullying Girls, The Day After
• 1999: In all friendship , rivals
• 2000: Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police , on the run
• 2002: The bull from Tölz: circus air
• 2003: The Rosenheim cops , alarm for a cow
• 2003: The bull from Tölz: Free fall
• 2003: The bull from Tölz: The candidate for marriage
• 2004: The bull from Tölz: Star Wars
• 2004: The bull from Tölz: The miracle of Wemperding
• 2005: Two at the big lake , attack on paradise
• 2005: Tatort , Vengeance Angel
• 2005: The bull from Tölz: love affliction
• 2006: The bull from Tölz: Nobody knows the dead
• 2007: The Prosecutor , Holy Wrath
• 2007: The bull from Tölz: War of the campers
• 2008: The bull from Tölz: The magician in the fountain
• 2009: The bull from Tölz: Adventure Mallorca
• 2009: A Case for Two , The Circumstantial Trap
• 2011: The Public Prosecutor , The Duel

Honors

• 2008: Friedrich Glauser Prize : Best First Novel for The Princess Murderer

Web links

• Andreas Föhr at his publishing house Droemer-Knaur
• Andreas Fohr in the Internet Movie Database (English)

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1. ^ Association of German Scriptwriters eV ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed April 24, 2012) 
2. ↑ Interview with Andreas Föhr (accessed on April 24, 2012)