Christopher Stahl

Christopher Stahl (pseudonym for Gerd Jürgen Merz ; born April 12, 1944 in Bad Camberg ; died November 1, 2018 in Alzey ) was a German economist, non-fiction author and crime writer.

Life

After studying business administration, Gerd Jürgen Merz made a sideline in Industrial Psychology and Industrial Sociology on. He completed additional training as a certified relaxation pedagogue with transaction analysis , autogenic training , progressive muscle relaxation and neuro-linguistic programming .

Since 1971 Gerd Jürgen Merz has worked as a consultant in adult education for various associations. From 1985 until 2012 he worked as a coach and consultant for tax advisory professions in Germany and Austria, dealing with management practice, mediation and the establishment of quality management. Gerd Jürgen Merz took on a teaching position at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Applied Sciences in rhetoric and learning techniques in the taxation department.

Gerd Jürgen Merz has been writing specialist books for tax advisors since 1995 . In 2001 he began writing detective novels under the pseudonym "Christopher Stahl", all of which are set in the tax consultant milieu. The lexicon of German crime fiction authors describes his novel idea as the “justification of the sub-genre of tax advisor crime ”. In addition, he wrote regional short thrillers for the Rheinhessen region . Merz was a member of the Association of German-Language Crime Literature Syndicate . He was the initiator and founder of the group of authors "Mörderisches Rheinhessen" and the crime festival of the same name. He volunteered as a victim counselor at the White Ring .

In December 2013, after three years of research, his novel Papa hat dich lieb - Ein Krimi was published for the first time under his real name by Leinpfad Verlag . The central theme describes the dramatic and devastating consequences of unprocessed child sexual abuse. He described the project as a fictional tightrope walk: clarification of crimes that are as real as they are hardly believable, "hidden" in a fictional story. The book was intended to be the first in a new series with the protagonist Maike Berger, a single parent pharmaceutical representative. A follow-up novel was in preparation.

Gerd Jürgen Merz was married to a tax consultant for 40 years, with whom he had three sons. He died in the fall of 2018 at the age of 74.

Works

• Deadly disposition . Neue Wirtschaftsbriefe, Herne 2002, ISBN 3-482-52161-1 .
• Black money for black sheep . Neue Wirtschaftsbriefe, Herne 2004, ISBN 3-482-52641-9 .
• Murderous record . Neue Wirtschaftsbriefe, Herne 2005, ISBN 3-482-54581-2 .
• Murder loss . New business letters, Herne 2007, ISBN 978-3-482-58411-4 .
• Balance of a lie . New business letters, Herne 2011, ISBN 978-3-482-63301-0 .
• Dad loves you A thriller . Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-942291-49-1 .
• Gerd Jürgen Merz (Ed.): Murderous Rheinhessen . Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-7973-1106-1 .
• Co-author of the anthology Perfect Sacrifice . Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-937782-89-8 .
• Audio CD Fatal disposition . Neue Wirtschaftsbriefe, Herne 2009, ISBN 348260441X ; ISBN 978-3482604416 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd J. Merz in the catalog of the German National Library
• former official website. In: christopher-stahl.de. Archived from the original on October 25, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerd Jürgen Merz: Obituary notice: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In: Lebenswege.faz.net. Retrieved February 24, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Lexicon of German crime fiction authors: Gerd J. Merz. In: krimilexikon.de. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .