Bernhard Jaumann

Bernhard Jaumann (born June 8, 1957 in Augsburg ) is a German writer. He became known for his crime novels and short stories .

Life

After graduating from high school, Jaumann studied German, history and social studies for teaching at the Augsburg Peutinger Gymnasium in Munich . He then worked as a high school teacher in Bad Aibling , interrupted by longer stays abroad in Italy , Australia , Mexico City and Windhoek ( Namibia ) .

The first five volumes of his detective novels form a series and their content relates to the five senses. Each novel is set in a different metropolis and revolves around one of the five.

Another series is the Montesecco trilogy. The small village in the Italian Marche , close to extinction , becomes the scene of sophisticated crimes. Who knows whether they would ever be resolved if the few villagers did not take over the clarification and resolution of the cases themselves.

While he lived temporarily in Namibia with his wife, he wrote three crime novels based in South West Africa and Namibia, Geier's Meal (2008), The Hour of the Jackal (2010), and Steinland (2012) . More than half of the novel The Long Shadow (2015) takes place in Germany and links the crimes of German colonial rule long ago with the state and social conditions in Namibia today.

Jaumann is a member of the crime writers' association Syndikat .

Awards

Bernhard Jaumann was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize in 2003 for his novel Saltimbocca . The jury's reasoning stated: " Bernhard Jaumann's culinary crime thriller is a feast - the ingredients for every course are just right: linguistic delicacy, exciting composition, witty presentation - and the whole thing is seasoned with just the right amount of irony".

He received a second award with the Friedrich-Glauser-Preis in 2008 in the category of short thriller for his story Schnee an der Blutkuppe , which appeared in the anthology Zum Die schön 2007 by Wunderlich, Reinbek.

In 2009 he was awarded the German Crime Prize (2nd place national) for the conclusion of his Montesecco trilogy. Jaumann secured 1st place in the German Crime Award in 2011 in the National category with his novel The Hour of the Jackal .

Works (selection)

The series of the five senses

• Sudden hearing loss. Detective novel . 4th edition. Structure of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7466-1506-6
• Visual battles. Novel . New edition Structure of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7466-1505-9
• Coup. Novel . Structure of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7466-1507-3
• Scent traps. Novel . Structure of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-7466-1508-0
• Saltimbocca. Detective novel . New edition Structure of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7466-1509-7

The Montesecco trilogy

• The vipers of Montesecco. Novel . Structure of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-2301-6
• The dragons of Montesecco. Detective novel . Structure of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-2452-5
• Medusa's eyes. A Montesecco novel . Structure of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7466-2619-2

The "Clemencia Garises" trilogy (based in Namibia)

• The hour of the jackal. Roman Kindler Verlag, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-463-40569-8
• Stone country. Detective novel Kindler Verlag, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-463-40570-4
• The long shadow. Detective novel Kindler Verlag, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-463-40648-0

From the short novel series "Caliber .64"

• Geier's meal. Detective novel . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89401-567-1

• The tower of the blue horses: a case by the Schleewitz art detective agency . Cologne: Galiani Berlin, 2019 ISBN 978-3-86971-141-6

Web links

• Official website of the author
• The author about himself
• Article about Bernhard Jaumann and his book "The Hour of the Jackal"
• Literature by and about Bernhard Jaumann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Literaturportal Bayern: Bernhard Jaumann - Retrieved on November 3, 2012.
2. ^ The Syndicate - The group of authors of German-language crime literature
3. ↑ Jaumann's entry on Krimilexikon.de