Bernhard Horstmann

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Bernhard Horstmann alias Stefan Murr (born September 4, 1919 in Munich ; † January 22, 2008 in Tutzing ) was a German author .

Life

Bernhard Horstmann was a grandson of the writer Ludwig Ganghofer . Horstmann, who was an officer in World War II, was shortly before the end of the war because of resistance activities in Gestapo detention in Berlin and then in Soviet captivity. The returnees studied law and received his doctorate in 1957 in Hamburg. jur.

From 1960 he wrote crime novels, sometimes together with his wife Charlotte under the shared pseudonym Stefan Murr , first at Bertelsmann Lesering, and since the 1980s increasingly contemporary suspense novels. Some of his works were filmed for television.

The autobiographical report at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8 about his experiences as a Gestapo prisoner and a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union as well as a non-fiction book about Adolf Hitler's stay in the Pasewalk hospital were published under his own name .

Works

As Stefan Murr

  • Night frost affair
  • The dead of the Nefud
  • The third glove (also as a two-part film in 1967 at WDR)
  • Until all shine went out
  • The night before Barbarossa
  • Deadly sand
  • Ring manhunt
  • Secret of the English silver bowls
  • Death was wrongly linked
  • The fat one and the strange one
  • Number five - I'm sorry
  • The Josephson Coup
  • Careful - Jaczek shoots immediately
  • Exactly to the day
  • The late confession
  • The secret sisters
  • The heart of this city
  • Murder in September
  • Tangier cork
  • Bloody seriousness
  • 110 - homicide squad here!
  • A dead man stops at 6:10 a.m.
  • Five minutes late

Revisions of Ludwig Ganghofer's novels

  • The Loan of God
  • The burning valley
  • The monastery hunter
  • The man in the salt
  • Hubertus Castle

Under your own name:

  • Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8. The authentic report of the last survivor from 1945. Langen Müller, Munich 1997, ISBN 3784426158
  • Hitler in Pasewalk. Hypnosis and its consequences. 2nd, revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3770011678

Filmography (selection)

Web links

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  1. ↑ http://www.krimilexikon.de/murr.htm
personal data
SURNAME Horstmann, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murr, Stefan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2008
Place of death Tutzing