Edda Minck

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Edda Minck (* 1958 ) (actually Gabriele Brinkmann ) is a German writer. She is known to a broad reading public as the author of the " Ruhrpottkrimis " around Maggie Abendroth , which she has published since 2007, initially as the author duo Minck & Minck , and later as the sole author. Other pseudonyms used by Edda Minck are WW Domsky , Hermione Gray and Jelly Connelly .

Life

Edda Minck, who comes from a miners' family in Bochum , has worked primarily as a producer, editor and screenwriter for film and television for more than 20 years, but has also worked in other professional fields.

Under the pseudonym Blunt & Gray ( Grace Blunt and Hermione Gray ), the two authors (Minck & Minck) won the 2006 crime scene competition in the Tatort Eifel with the film Fatwa . The following year, the authors won another prize in this competition, this time with Abendroth! , the concept for a multi-part television crime series. The detective stories totgepflegt and bumped off , appeared in 2007 and 2008 in Düsseldorf Droste Verlag . The focus of the multi-part crime series is the fictional screenwriter Maggie Abendroth , who, after a career break, makes a fresh start in her hometown of Bochum and is always involved in peculiar murder cases. With riveted , Minck & Minck presented another case in 2009.

Edda Minck's solo work For No Money in the World (2009) was one of the finalists in the competition for the DeLiA Literature Prize 2010 .

The detective novel Ehre, Whom Ehre ... , the publication of which the publisher of Droste Verlag, Felix Droste, had rejected in 2009 because of allegedly Islamophobic tendencies, appeared under the pseudonym WW Domsky in Leda Verlag, Leer .

Edda Minck published the next two - and last - Maggie Abendroth novels austrällert (2010) and chatted to death (2012) in KBV-Verlag , Hillesheim .

The fact that so-called “animal rescuers” bring street dogs or dogs from animal shelters in southern Europe to Central Europe in order to enable them to have a “better life” there is the starting point of their satirical novel Idiots on Two Paws. The Pug Diaries (2010).

Edda Minck also regularly denies author readings , thanks to her crime novel, often cared for dead in funeral homes .

She also wrote the column Ask Grandma Berti for the Bochum district magazine VorOrt . The local kiosk operator who “philosophizes” in typical Ruhr German about the small topics of everyday life was already part of the figure arsenal of Maggie Abendroth novels. A selection from these columns was published in book form in 2011 under the title Bissitage, Your Grandma Berti - News by the Bochum kiosk philosopher ( ISBN 9783981462906 ).

Quote

“I need to find out how things are going. Not on Google and not on Wikipedia . "

- Edda Minck on her material research in real working life

Works

  • Minck & Minck cared for to death. Maggie Abendroth and the short way to the grave . In the series Droste Krimi Ruhrgebiet . Droste, Düsseldorf 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7700-1260-2 ).
  • killed as Minck & Minck . Maggie Abendroth and the dangerous fishing in murky waters . In the series Droste Krimi Ruhrgebiet . Droste, Düsseldorf 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-7700-1280-0 ).
  • riveted as Minck & Minck . Maggie Abendroth and the deadly chatter of old fools . In the series Droste Krimi Ruhrgebiet . Droste, Düsseldorf 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-7700-1290-9 ).
  • Edda Minck For no money in the world. A fantastic story that is definitely true . Droste, Düsseldorf 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-7700-1375-3 ).
  • WW Domsky: Honor to whom honor ... detective novel . Leda, Leer 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-939689-33-1 ).
  • Edda Minck idiots on two paws. The pug diaries . Goldmann, Munich 2010 (also published as an online edition in parallel; ISBN 978-3-442-31235-1 ).
  • Minck & Minck (Edda Minck) stripped out. Maggie Abendroth and the nightingale's last ride. Crime from the Ruhr area . KBV, Hillesheim 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-940077-89-9 ).
  • Edda Minck Bissitage, your grandma Berti. News from the Bochum kiosk philosopher . MiKa Kommunikation, Bochum 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-9814629-0-6 ).
  • Minck & Minck (Edda Minck) chatted to death - Maggie Abendroth and the carpet of death . KBV, Hillesheim 2012 ( ISBN 978-3-942446-60-0 ).

In addition, the author is represented in a number of short stories in several anthologies .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Brinkmann's honor killing thriller is not printed Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed November 11, 2012
  2. ^ Entry Edda Minck ( Memento of November 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in the Lexicon of German Crime Authors
  3. ↑ Information ( Memento from May 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) about the DeLiA Literature Prize 2010 ; Retrieved October 21, 2012
  4. ↑ Gabriele Brinkmann's honor killing thriller will not be printed Westdeutsche Zeitung, October 5, 2009. Retrieved November 11, 2012
  5. ↑ a b Patrick Mammen: Crime Dead in the Mourning Hall . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , online version of October 7, 2012; Retrieved October 21, 2012
  6. ↑ Idiots on Two Paws ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at the Random House publishing group; Retrieved October 21, 2012
  7. ↑ . Cf. to the VorOrt editorial staff ( Memento of 4 July 2012 at the Internet Archive ); Retrieved October 21, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Minck, Edda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brinkmann, Gabriele (real name); Domsky, WW (pseudonym); Gray, Hermione (pseudonym); Connelly, Jelly (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958