Bruno Heini
Bruno Heini (born September 4, 1960 ) is a Swiss entrepreneur, jazz and rock musician and writer.
Life
Bruno Heini's parents were bakers / confectioners and gastronomy entrepreneurs. He has a brother and a sister and grew up in Lucerne . He passed his Matura at the grammar school in Beromünster and completed training as a pastry chef and restaurateur. He later studied marketing at Cornell University in the USA . In the early 1980s, he completed his training as a tenor saxophonist at the Lucerne Jazz School and from then on also worked as a professional musician.
Even when he was still at school, Heini played in bands and made numerous appearances with various jazz and rock groups in Europe, the USA and China. As a jazz musician, he was musical director of the House of Switzerland during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . He participated in numerous recordings and made TV appearances.
Heini has been writing books and columns since 2008 . In 2010 he published his non-fiction book “More Butter on Bread” on the subjects of marketing and personnel training and gave seminars and lectures on these subjects. It was at this time that he discovered his passion for writing detective novels. In 2016 his thriller “Teufelssaat” was released, which immediately made it onto the paperback bestseller list.
The detective novel “Engelsknochen” followed in 2018 and in 2020 his third thriller “Höllenwut”, which deals with the subject of violence against women. "Höllenwut" reached number 3 on the Swiss paperback hit parade.
According to a critic of the Zuger Woche , Bruno Heini exceeded the high expectations with his third work, "Höllenwut", and cemented his good reputation as a master of Swiss thriller literature. The main character Palmer is at the center of the three thrillers, an idiosyncratic detective with unusual methods and a past as a rock musician. Heini's detective novels contain local Lucerne flavor .
Bruno Heini lives with his wife, the rock musician and singer Judith Heini, in Lucerne.
Awards as an entrepreneur
As a catering and confectionery entrepreneur, Heini has received numerous awards, including the "Zacharias" and the "Marktkieker", a marketing and innovation award for the baking industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which honors special entrepreneurial achievements. Heini's company was founded in 2009 in voted the friendliest shop in the city of Lucerne in a consumer survey, and two of its confectionery specialties were included in the official federal inventory “Swiss Culinary Heritage”.
Publications
- Devil's Seed . Thriller. Meßkirch: Gmeiner 2016. ISBN 978-3-8392-1974-4
- Angel bones , thriller. Meßkirch: Gmeiner 2018. ISBN 978-3-8392-2206-5
- Hell rage . Thriller. Meßkirch: Gmeiner 2020. ISBN 978-3-8392-2640-7
- More butter on bread. How to sell more while getting higher prices. Richemont 2010. ISBN 978-3-03302220-1
Web links
- Bruno Heini at Discogs (English)
- Bruno Heini's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Lucerne confectioner and his murderous streak. In: Zentralplus.ch. July 7, 2016, accessed August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ This gory thriller takes up the #MeToo debate. In: Zentralplus.ch. March 31, 2020, accessed August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Zug Week, May 20, 2020
- ↑ New, gripping thriller by Swiss author Bruno Heini. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Voting: Conditorei Heini is “the friendliest business”. November 25, 2009, accessed August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Lucerne rain droplets , accessed on August 14, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heini, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer, musician and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th September 1960 |