Berndt Schulz

This article is about the film critic. For other people see Bernd Schulz .

Berndt Schulz (* 1942 in the Mark Brandenburg ; pseudonym Mattias Gerwald ) is a German writer as well as television and film critic .

Life

Berndt Schulz spent his childhood in Berlin . After completing an electrician apprenticeship and taking on various jobs, he became a bookseller . After a serious illness and his recovery, he moved to Stuttgart . In 1970 he moved to Frankfurt am Main, took his Abitur at the evening grammar school there and studied German , philosophy , history and journalism . He then worked in adult education, as a journalist and as a lecturer.

Since 1978 he has published more than 70 books on film , star history , politics and society as well as non-fiction and biographies as a freelance writer . Under the pseudonym Mattias Gerwald he also wrote and published several historical novels , such as Der Entdecker (about Alexander von Humboldt ), most recently the Islamic novel Die Geliebte des Propheten .

In 1991 the thriller Murderous Decision appeared , in 1994 The Train ride . In 2007 his novel Eine Liebe im Krieg was published and in 2016 he published the crime thriller Wildwuchs .

He was best known for his crime novels about investigator Martin Velsmann , which are set in the Main-Kinzig region between Frankfurt and Fulda . Last published November murder , Angel murder , rain murder , Spring Awakening and The Enchanted women with the Fulda investigators.

Berndt Schulz has lived in the Holzburg district of Schrecksbach since 2015 .

Works

Non-fiction books - biographies

• Marlene . Biography of a legend . Luebbe, 1996.
• Betty Mahmoody . Biography . Luebbe, 1999.
• Swatch or The Success Story of Nicolas Hayek . Lehrach, 1999, ISBN 978-3-9806151-2-9 .
• Thor Heyerdahl . Biography . National Geographic, 2004.
• Heinz Rühmann . Moewig, Rastatt 1994, ISBN 3-8118-3924-1 .

Non-fiction books - film books

• The immortals of cinema

1. Silent movie era and the golden 30s . Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-596-23666-5 .
2. The glamor and myth of the stars of the 40s and 50s . Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-596-23658-4 .
3. The stars since 1960 . Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-596-23679-7 .

• Cult films . Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-455-08751-5 .
• with Jürgen Menningen : Kino der Nacht. Hollywood's Black Series . Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-89136-040-1 .
• Cinema classics. 100 masterpieces from film history . Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-89136-102-5 .
• Stars and stunts in action cinema . Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-88724-016-2 .
• Golden cinema. Stars and hits from film history . Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-016-0 .
• with Adolf Heinzlmeier : Lexicon Films on TV. 5000 feature films TV - video - cable . 2nd Edition. Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 .
• Lexicon of German film and TV stars . New edition, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-475-2 .

Non-fiction books - other

• The women are to blame for everything - a diatribe . Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg, 1996 ISBN 3-89136-565-9
• When men are trapped . Patmos, 1998.
• A guest on the Orient Express . Weingarten, 2000.
• At home in Berlin: declarations of love to the pristine corners of the city . Sutton, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-781-5 .

Fiction - historical novels (under his pseudonym Mattias Gerwald)

• The heretic . Luebbe, 1994.
• The emperor's envoy . Lübbe, 1998.
• The god queen . Pendo, Zurich 1999.
• The dying sun . Luebbe, 2001.
• The explorer . Luebbe, 2004.
• The Prophet's Beloved . Luebbe, 2006.
• The Shroud of Christ , RM book, Gütersloh 2006.
• The last knight from Tempelhof. The murder plot , Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-034-0

Fiction - crime novels (under his real name)

• Murderous decision . Lübbe, 1991.
• The train ride . Rasch and Röhring, 1994.
• November murder . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-16450-8 .
• Angel murder . Structure, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7466-2255-7 .
• Rain murder. A Kloster Eberbach thriller . Structure, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-2344-3 .
• Spring awakening. A Kinzigtal thriller; Murder at the center of the European Union . CoCon, Hanau 2007, ISBN 978-3-937774-43-5 .
• The enchanted women. A Kloster Eberbach thriller . Sutton, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-753-2 .
• Moderholz: A garden thriller from Frankfurt am Main . Sutton, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-86680-954-3 .
• A love in war . Monogramm-Verl.-Ges., Weyhe 2015, ISBN 978-3-945458-25-9 .
• Wild growth: a bloody garden thriller . Gmeiner, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8392-1887-7 .

literature

• HNA (Herg.): NC North Hesse Champions. Dierichs Verlag, Kassel 2017 pp. 72–73

Web links

• Literature by and about Berndt Schulz in the catalog of the German National Library