Karl-Heinz Günther (writer)

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Karl-Heinz Günther , pseudonym CH Guenter (born March 24, 1924 near Nuremberg ; † June 5, 2005 in Herrsching am Ammersee ), was a German writer and author of detective novels .

Life

Günther attended high school in Nuremberg and graduated from high school. In 1942 he was drafted into the navy and from 1943 served, among other things, the submarine weapon as a naval officer. His great autobiographical novel Die Noris-Banditen (2005), BLITZ-Verlag, deals with these years.

After the war, Günther began to write for the Erich-Pabel-Verlag in Rastatt . In 1959 he invented the legendary New York private investigator " Commissioner X " (KX), a product that competed with the New York FBI employee, the 'G-man' " Jerry Cotton " from Bastei-Verlag . For the crime series with KX Günther wrote as "Bert F. Island" between 1959 and 1966 fifty-eight novels and 51 paperback novels. Three of these paperbacks have been translated into French, one into Italian and one into Romanian. The series ran for 34 years, as it was continued by various other authors until it was discontinued in 1992.

Günther was asked to improve a script for “arch rival” Jerry Cotton.

Between 1965 and 1992, at least for 28 years, he wrote 314 paperback novels as "CH Guenter" for the spy series about the BND agent Robert (Bob) Urban alias " Mister Dynamit " (MD), which was originally also in the Pabel -Publisher came out. At that time unpublished manuscripts were then partly continued by Oerindur-Verlag or BLITZ-Verlag (from 2001 to 2005) (5 pieces so far; 4 pieces have not yet been published). Some of the novels have also been translated into English, Spanish, Italian, and Turkish. Seven novels even appeared in the United States.

In the last years of his life, CH Guenter wrote submarine novels for Ullstein Verlag , which were also successful. Some of Günther's works were published under his pseudonym CH Guenter by Josef J. Preyer at Oerindur Verlag.

bibliography

Special editions

  • Three yellow cats: 40 years of Inspector X “Jo Walker”, novel and background (1999, Oerindur Verlag, ISBN 3-9500580-4-4 ), contains the “Inspector X” bibliography of the series (novels and paperbacks) by CH Guenter
  • The man out of nowhere: Inspector X Kult-Krimi und Background (2000, Oerindur Verlag, ISBN 3-9500580-5-2 ), contains the Mister Dynamit list of all paperbacks in this series; sole author CH Guenter

Other works

Novels by CH Guenter (in first edition) that are not about Commissioner X and Mister Dynamit:

  • Encounter in No Man's Land (booklet novel No. 176) from the series 'Der Landser' (1961, Pabel Verlag, under the pseudonym: Günther Kahá; the novel can also be found in 'Die Noris-Banditen' - see below)
  • Love as Cold as Death (hardcover) (1979, Moewig-Verlag, ISBN 3-8118-6816-0 )
  • Use in the Atlantic / The last submarine after Avalon I (1996, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-23925-0 )
  • U-136 on a secret mission / The last submarine after Avalon II (1996, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-23926-9 )
  • War logger-29 (1997, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-24304-5 )
  • The TITANIC error (1998, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-24471-8 )
  • Duel of the Admirals (1998, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-24636-2 )
  • The black baron (1999, Ullstein-Verlag - 3548245048)
  • Atlantik-Liner (1999, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-24609-5 )
  • The Otranto disaster (1999, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-24728-8 )
  • U-cruiser NOWGOROD (2000, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-26128-0 )
  • Secret order for airship DO-X (2000, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-25079-3 )
  • U-136 Escape into the sunset (2001, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-25207-9 )
  • The Santa Lucia Riddle (2002, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-25334-2 )
  • UZ chasing cruising star (2002, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-25440-3 )
  • The Whore of Tyrol (2002, Oerindur-Verlag, ISBN 3-9500580-9-5 )
  • U-boat under black flag (2003, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-25647-3 )
  • U-77: Against the rest of the world (2003, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-25727-5 )
  • U-XXI: The first patrol was the last (2003, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-25769-0 )
  • Lord of the Oceans: U-500 (2004, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-25909-X )
  • U-boat deployment in the death zone (2005, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-26136-1 )
  • Submarine Laurin does not answer (2005, Ullstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-548-26278-3 )
  • Die Noris-Banditen (2005, BLITZ-Verlag, ISBN 3-89840-267-3 , 2005, Oerindur-Verlag, ISBN 3-902291-18-4 , 2005), also contains the Mister Dynamit novel Der Alexandria-Errtum ( would have been at Pabel No. 673)
  • U-Boot on a hot trail (The novel was due to appear in February 2006 by Ullstein-Verlag, but has not yet been published as it was probably unfinished. When it appears, it will be given ISBN 3-548-26405-0 )

Film adaptations

The following books from CH Guenter's creations "Commissioner X" and "Mister Dynamit" were also filmed:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oerindur.at/guenter.htm

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Günther, Karl-Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guenter, CH (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH near Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2005
Place of death Herrsching am Ammersee