Andreas Gruber (writer)

Andreas Gruber (2011)

Andreas Gruber (born August 28, 1968 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer who primarily writes in the genres of fantasy , horror and thriller .

Life

Andreas Gruber studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and lives as a freelance writer with his family in Grillenberg south of Vienna. His books have been awarded three times the Vincent Prize and three times the German Fantastic Prize, as well as being translated into more than ten foreign languages. a. in Italy, France, Russia, Brazil, Korea and Japan. With his various book series about the Viennese insurance detective Peter Hogart, the criminal investigator Walter Pulaski, the BKA profiler Maarten S. Sneijder or the young adventurer Terry West, he achieved a total circulation of over 3 million copies in German-speaking countries. In 2018, together with the Mordsharz crime festival, he launched the Harzer-Hammer, a literary prize endowed with 1,000 euros and awarded annually as part of the festival for young crime writers.

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Andreas Gruber has been working specifically with writing since 1996. He initially wrote author portraits for Space View magazine , followed in 1997 by the first short stories for fanzines such as Fantasia , Nocturno , Sagittarius , SOLAR-X and the Andromeda SF magazine as well as in literary magazines such as @cetera and DUM . In 1999, his short story Das Businessspiel won first place in the literature competition of the Lower Austrian Danube Festival.

His stories have appeared in numerous magazines such as Alien Contact , Criminalis , Nocturno , Nova , Omen , phantastisch! and Space View as well as in anthologies by the publishers Aarachne , Basilisk , Bejot , Bielefeld , Blitz Verlag , Eloy Edictions , lerato , midas publishing , Robert Richter , Schreiblust , Shayol , Storia , ubooks , Ulmer Manuskripte , VirPriV and Web-Site .

Many of his works and stories have been awarded or nominated for various prizes. In 2019 Constantin Films started filming its Maarten S. Sneijder series on behalf of SAT.1.

Awards and nominations (selection)

• 1998: 3rd place at the Marburg Award for the short story Duke Manór
• 1999: 2nd place at the Marburg Award for the short story Corpus Laceraris
• 1999: 1st place in the literature competition of the Lower Austrian Danube Festival 1999 for the short story Das Planspiel
• 2002: 1st place at the German Fantastic Prize for the short story collection The last journey of Enora Time
• 2002: 1st place at the German Fantastic Prize for the short story The last journey of the Enora Time
• 2002: 2nd place at the German Science Fiction Prize for the short story The Last Journey of Enora Time
• 2002: 3rd place at the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the short story The Last Journey of Enora Time
• 2003: 1st place in the audio book authors' competition for the audio book Das Managementspiel
• 2006: 1st place at the German Fantastic Prize for the novel Der Judas-Schrein (category: best novel debut)
• 2006: 3rd place at the German Fantasy Prize for the novel Der Judas-Schrein (Category: best novel in German)
• 2008: 1st place at the Vincent Prize for best author
• 2008: 1st place at the Vincent Prize for the novel The Owl Gate
• 2009: 1st place at the Vincent Prize for the short story The Sharp Edge of the Geo Triangle
• 2012: 2nd place at the Vincent Prize for the short story Rue de la Tonnellerie
• 2015: Nomination for the Leo Perutz Prize of the City of Vienna for the novel Death Sentence
• 2016: Nomination for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2016 for the novel Death Sentence
• 2016: 1st place at the Leo Perutz Prize 2016 of the City of Vienna for the novel Revenge Autumn
• 2016: 1st place at the Skoutz Award 2016 for the novel Revenge Autumn
• 2016: 1st place at the Herzogenrather Handschelle 2016 for the novel Revenge Autumn
• 2018: Nomination for the Viktor Crime Award 2018
• 2020: Nomination for the Jugend Glauser 2020 for the novel Code Genesis - they will find you

bibliography

Novels

Youth novels

• Code Genesis - They Will Find You - Volume 1 . Cbj Children's Books Verlag , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-570-16535-5 .
• Code Genesis - They Will Chase You - Volume 2 . Cbj, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-570-16536-2 .
• Code Genesis - Don't Get Caught - Exclusive Prequel . Cbj, Munich 2020
• Code Genesis - They Will Betray You - Volume 3 . Cbj, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-570-16537-9 .

Horror novels

• The Judas Shrine . Festa Verlag , Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-935-82283-1 .
• The Owl Gate . Blitz Verlag , Windeck 2008, ISBN 978-3-898-40273-6 .

Elena Gerink series

• Heart grave . Goldmann Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-48017-3 .

Peter Hogart series

• The black lady . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-865-52072-2 .
• The angel mill . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-865-52080-7 .
• The bone needle . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-442-49071-4 .

Walter Pulaski series

• Revenge summer . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-47382-3 .
• Fall of revenge . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-48241-2 .
• Revenge winter . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-442-48655-7 .

Sabine-Nemez - & - Maarten-S.-Sneijder-series

• Deadline . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-47866-8 .
• Death sentence . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-48025-8 .
• Death fairy tale . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-48312-9 .
• Dance of death . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-442-48313-6 .
• Death mark . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-48656-4 .

Volumes of short stories

• The last ride of Enora Time . Shayol Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-926-12614-6 .
• The fifth archangel . Shayol Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-958-35236-0 .
• Jakob Rubinstein . Basilisk Verlag, Reichelsheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-935-70607-0 .
• Ghost writer . Shayol Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-926-12696-2 .
• Northern Gothic. Scary stories . Lucifer-Verlag , Drensteinfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-958-35077-9 .
• Apocalypse Marseille . Lucifer-Verlag, Drensteinfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-958-35135-6 .
• Dinner in the Dark . Lucifer-Verlag, Borgdorf-Seedorf 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-47382-3

Film adaptations

Maarten-S.-Sneijder series

Deadline

In 2019 Constantin Film filmed the SAT1 with a deadline - Nemez and Sneijder determine the first volume in Andreas Gruber's death series. Directed by Christopher Schier , the screenplay was written by Verena Kurth. Josefine Preuß plays the young Munich Commissioner Sabine Nemez, and the Dutch actor Raymond Thiry plays the Dutch profiler of the BKA Wiesbaden . The film was shot in Vienna.

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Gruber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author
• Andreas Gruber in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Author portrait at Krimiautoren.at: Andreas Gruber
• "The horror comes from Austria" - portrait / interview with Andreas Gruber
• In the café with Andreas Gruber - Interview about Janett's opinion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viktor Crime Award 2018: Jury nominates 10 authors for the longlist. (No longer available online.) Mord am Hellweg, archived from the original on October 13, 2018 ; accessed on November 8, 2018 . 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.  
2. ↑ Nominated for the GLAUSER Prize 2020 in the "Youth Crime" category. In: www.das-syndikat.com. The Syndicate, February 15, 2020, accessed February 15, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Josefine Preuß chases "Struwwelpeter" murderer for Sat.1. TV wish list, accessed September 30, 2016 .