Didier Daeninckx

Didier Daeninckx (* 27. April 1949 in Saint Denis ) is a French thriller author , who is considered one of the major contemporary crime writer in France.

Didier Daeninckx

Classification in literary history

Daenickx is considered to be the co-founder of the new novel noir . As with many Roman noir writers, social criticism also plays a decisive role for him. With topics such as the Resistance , the collaboration of parts of the French population with the Nazis , the Algerian War , the problems of refugees in society and the deportation policy of the French state, his detective novels repeatedly trigger social debates. In 1985 Daeninckx received the prestigious Grand prix de littérature policière for his novel Meurtes pour mémoire .

The author also writes books for children and young people as well as texts for comics . Before his writing career, he was a printer, social worker and local editor. Today he lives in Aubervilliers .

Works

Novels (selection)

• 1984 Meurtres pour mémoire
  • File corpses . Translator Marie Luise Knott . Rotbuch, Berlin 1987 ISBN 3-88022-604-0
  • If remembered, murder . Translated by Stefan Linster. Distel, Heilbronn 2003 ISBN 3-923208-56-1
• 1984 Le Géant inachevé
• 1985 Le Der des ders
  • Death on probation , translator Stefan Linster. Liebeskind, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-935890-83-0
• 1985 Métroplice
• 1986 playback
  • The voice of Bianca B. Übers. Elke Rappus-Weidemann. Structure, Berlin 1991 ISBN 3-7466-0031-6
• 1986 Le Bourreau et son double
• 1987 Lumière Noire
• 1989 La mort n'oublie personne
• 1994 Le Château en Bohème
  • The Castle near Prague , transl. Ronald Voullié. Transit, Berlin 1995 ISBN 3-88747-102-4
• 1995 Les Figurants
  • The extras , translator Matthias Drebber. Association A, Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-93593-641-9
• 1996 Nazis in le Métro
  • Nazis in the Metro , translator Ronald Voullié. Transit, Berlin 1996 ISBN 3-88747-111-3
  • also as Pulp und die alte Linke , same translation, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998 ISBN 3-499-26135-9
• 1998 Cannibale
  • Journey of an ogre to Paris , translator Barbara Heber-Schärer. Wagenbach, Berlin 2001 ISBN 3-8031-1200-1
• 2002 Le Retour d'Ataï
• 2003 I do it
• 2007 On achève bien les disc jockeys
  • Only DJs are given the coup de grace , translator Katarina Grän. Distel, Heilbronn 2010 ISBN 978-3-942136-05-1
• Galadio. (Galadio) Translated by Waltraud Schleser, Rainer Gutenerger, Ulrike Hebel, Jürgen Donat. Magenta, Tönisberg 2017. With 13 photographs, 2 maps

comics

• 1999 La page cornée
  • The dog-ear . Arka, Essen 2000 ISBN 3-929219-12-3

Anthologies

• Rififi en banlieue. Textes choisis et annotés Ed. Heinz-Günter Böhne, Friedhold Schmidt. Klett, Stuttgart 2000 Text volume ISBN 3-12-591603-8 Teacher's volume ISBN 3-12-591604-6
• Histoires d'histoire . Ed., Epilogue Dietmar Fricke. Reclam (foreign language texts), Stuttgart 2007 ISBN 978-3-15-019728-8

Awards

• 1985: Grand prix de littérature policière for Meurtes pour mémoire
• 1987: Prix ​​Mystère de la critique for The Voice of Bianca B. ( Play-Back )

literature

• Dietmar Fricke: Didier Daeninckx , in: Jan-Pieter Barbian (Red.): Vive la littérature! French literature in German translation. Edited and published by Duisburg City Library ISBN 9783892796565 , p. 10

Web links

• Literature by and about Didier Daeninckx in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Didier Daeninckx at perlentaucher.de
• Didier Daeninckx in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website of DD
• Biblioweb: biography, bibliography (French)
• Günter Platzdasch: Faces of Aubervillier - Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Didier Daenincks, Virginie Ledoyen. (PDF) Archived from the original on July 9, 2011 ; Retrieved on March 26, 2014 (from: Thüringische Landeszeitung online, May 17, 2003). 

notes

1. ↑ German language Fass. Slightly changed in agreement with the author
2. ↑ on this: Luisa Kleinemas: Fates of dark-skinned children in the Third Reich. A comparison of Didier Daeninckx's "Galadio" with Anja Tuckermann's "Muscha". GRIN Verlag , Munich 2014