Dieter KE Walter
Dieter Walter (* 1950 in Iserlohn ) is a German writer who also writes under the pseudonym Viktor Glass .
Career
Walter passed the Abitur in Hattingen / Ruhr. He then studied pedagogy, journalism and sinology at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He attended the University of Applied Sciences for Municipal Administration, after which he worked for 5 years in the city of Bochum's cultural office.
Walter has been a member of the Association of German Writers (VDS) since 1975 . He has been a freelance writer, translator and journalist since 1980. He wrote travel guides in the 1990s, mostly on Australia. In 1997 he moved to Weilheim in Upper Bavaria and later to Augsburg . From 1998 he was a ghostwriter for biographies. After a scriptwriting seminar in the Hamburg studio (with Gyula Trebitsch , Michael Ballhaus and Hans W. Geißendörfer ) and seminars at the Frankfurt book dealer school, he worked for a publishing company for three years as part of the publishing of travel guides. He received further journalistic training in the areas of research and coaching. In 2008 he became chairman of the Association of German Writers in Allgäu-Swabia.
Individual publications
- Fragments from Sonja and others. Prose pieces. Birkenau: Emig 1973
- Lady Pettycoat murder case. Trier: Edition Trèves 1976
- Come in my meat grinder, dearest. Stories. Göppingen: Trans Kalo 1977.
- Tasmania, Australia's green paradise. Berlin, Schenk 1991 [ex., With S. Farrell Odgers]
- Australia's unknown west. Western Australia state guide. Ibid. 1992 [with M. Fülles]
- Australia's outback. On the trail of the pioneers with your own vehicle. Ibid. 1993 [with R. Schenk].
- Australia's metropolises. Sydney / Canberra. Ibid. 1993
- Australia's metropolises. Melbourne / Hobart. Ibid. 1994.
- Hagen hike. Hagen / Westf .: Verlag Erich Walter 1995 (own publishing house)
- The girl with the hoop. Narrative. Weilheim / Obb .: Verlag Erich Walter (own publishing house) 1998.
- How does the Viennese get on the track? Station narratives. Ahlhorn: Geest-Verlag 2001 [with M. Dosch u. C. Hoffmann].
- In the valley of the white tiger. Novel. Moments / Area-Verlag 2004 (Ps. DD Camberley. TB 2006 in Ullstein-Verlag), ISBN 978-3-548-26338-0
- Frogs, flies, messages in a bottle. Stories, Munich 2008
as Viktor Glass
- Diesel. Rotbuch 2008 (paperback by Heyne 2009) ISBN 978-3867890304
- Goethe's execution. Red Book 2009 (translation into Turkish: Everest 2012) ISBN 978-3-86789-058-8
- The assassination attempt by Mr. Hauber. (with Heinz Keller, Rotbuch 2011) ISBN 978-3867891356
- Dry ice (crime novel, Wißner, 2012) ISBN 978-3-89639-783-6
- Schüssler and the Missing Girls , (Pendragon, 2018), ISBN 978-3-86532-609-6
reference books
- Literature Atlas NRW 1992
- Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1978 ff
- Westphalian Author Lexicon 1900 to 1950, Schöningh, Paderborn 2002
Secondary literature
- Penny novels in AJ Weigoni: Conversations with colleagues. Düsseldorf 1999 in it the contribution: "Groschenromane". (Book, CD and website )
Web links
- Literature by and about Dieter KE Walter in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Walter, Dieter KE |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walter, Dieter Karl Erich; Glass, Viktor (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Iserlohn |