Claus Cornelius Fischer
Claus Cornelius Fischer , pseudonym Noel Sanssouci (born June 8, 1951 in Berlin ) is a German writer , translator and screenwriter .
Life
Fischer was born in Berlin in 1951, attended a Jesuit boarding school in Westphalia until he graduated from high school and then attended a journalism school in Munich. After graduating, he worked as a freelance journalist for Die Welt and Die Zeit, among others, and as a translator of American novels before establishing himself as a screenwriter and novelist. In 1989, together with Günter Grass and Norbert Blüm, he was one of the first co-editors of Salman Rushdie's Die Satanischen Verse in Germany and in the same year was nominated for the aspekte literature prize for his novel Goya's Hand (1989) .
He achieved a bestseller with his first novel, Goya's Hand, a fantasy about the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya , which earned him a nomination for the aspekte literature prize. A good dozen other novels followed: detective novels, thrillers and historical novels, as well as screenplays for cinema ( Blueprint, Boran) and television films, including the episodes of snow drifting and once really die for the television series Tatort . He wrote some crime novels together with Hans Gamber under the common pseudonym Christopher Barr.
In 2007 Fischer began with And forgive us our guilt, a very well-discussed and internationally successful series of crime novels about the Amsterdam commissioner Bruno van Leeuwen. Colorful characters, psychological accuracy, and unusual stories are the characteristics of these books. So far, three more novels with Bruno van Leeuwen have been published in the following order: And don't seduce us to evil, angel of death and ice heart.
Fischer also writes children's books and historical novels under various pseudonyms. Under the title The Optimist , he transferred Voltaire's moral story Candide as Noel Sanssouci, or Optimism as a satirical parable into the present.
Today he lives and works with his wife alternately in Munich and Berlin.
Works
- 1995: Forests of Heaven, ISBN 3-612-27098-2
- 1998: Goya's Hand, ISBN 3-612-27627-1
- 1998: Sushi in Paris, ISBN 3-612-27551-8
- 1999: The End of All Days, ISBN 3-612-27461-9
- 2003: Who Rides the Tiger, ISBN 3-8052-0745-X
- 2003: Close to the fire, ISBN 3-442-35821-3
- 2007: And forgive us our guilt, Commissaris van Leeuwen's first case, ISBN 3-431-03702-X
- 2010: And don't seduce us to evil, Commissaris van Leeuwen's second case, ISBN 978-3-404-16396-0
- 2010: Angel of the Dead, Commissaris van Leeuwen's third case, ISBN 978-3-404-16512-4
- 2010: Eisherz, Commissaris van Leeuwen's fourth case, ISBN 978-3-431-03808-8
- 2011: Redemption, Munich, Karl Blessing Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89667-445-6
- 2013: Nukleus, Munich, Karl Blessing Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89667-488-3
- 2015: The girl with the silver caterpillar, Kindle Edition, Edition M
- 2015: The Last Real Woman, Fuchs & Fuchs Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3945279045
- 2018: Commissaris van Leeuwen and the girl with the silver coin, (his 5th case), Thiele & Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna Munich, ISBN 978-3851794052
- 2018: Commissaris van Leeuwen and the lost woman, (his 1st case), earlier: And forgive us our guilt, Piper Verlag , Munich ISBN 978-3492313667
- 2018: Commissaris van Leeuwen and the dealers of evil, (his. 2nd case), earlier: And don't seduce us to evil, Piper, ISBN 978-3-492-31367-4
- 2018: Commissaris van Leeuwen and the man with the icy heart, (his 4th case), formerly: Eisherz, Piper Verlag, ISBN
Audio books
- 2007: And forgive us our debts, read by Stephan Benson , ISBN 978-3785733011
- 2008: And don't seduce us to evil, read by Stephan Benson, ISBN 978-3-7857-3515-2
Filmography
- 2016: The Athens Crime - Trojan Horses (screenplay)
Pseudonym Christopher Barr
Behind this pseudonym hid the journalist and detective writer Hans Gamber and Claus Cornelius Fischer, who at that time still called himself Claus Fischer. They made their debut in 1981 with "Soldato the Killer" (publisher: Droemer Knaur) and tried to keep the promise of "international thriller flair" in the following novels.
Web links
- Claus Cornelius Fischer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Claus Cornelius Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Claus Cornelius Fischer's website (no longer updated since 2011)
- Interview with Claus Cornelius Fischer on erlesen.tv
- Retelling of Voltaire's Candide on HeiseOnline.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ccfischer.de/index.html
- ↑ Claus Cornelius Fischer ( Memento of the original of April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Blessing Verlag
- ^ Lexicon of German crime authors [1]
- ^ Cast Athen-Krimi , accessed on September 30, 2016.
- ↑ Lexicon of German crime authors [2]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Claus Cornelius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sanssouci, Noel (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, translator and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , Germany |