Edwin Klein

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Edwin Klein (born June 19, 1948 in Konz ) is a former German athlete who has mainly published thrillers as a freelance writer since 1990 .

Career as an athlete

Klein was German junior champion in hammer throw in 1967 , and in 1968 and 1969 he took second place at the junior championships. In 1970 he won a medal in the senior division for the first time in third at the German championships. In 1972 Klein won the German Championships in Munich ahead of Karl-Hans Riehm , who was also born in Konz, and his Mainz club mate Uwe Beyer . Six weeks later at the Olympic Games in Munich , all three throwers reached the final; Klein took seventh place with 71.14 m, making him third-best German behind second-placed Jochen Sachse from the GDR and Uwe Beyer in fourth place.

After a third place in 1973, Klein won his second German championship title in 1974. At the European Championships in 1974 , he just missed the final battle of the eight best throwers in ninth place. Two years later, despite a sixth place at the German Championships, he was nominated again for the Olympic Games after he had achieved the greatest length of his career at the Whitsun Sports Festival in Rehlingen with 74.72 m. At the Olympic competition in Montreal , he finished eighth with 71.34 m. In 1977 Klein once again reached fourth place at the German Championships.

Edwin Klein began his career at TV Germania Trier , then switched to studying at USC Mainz , and from 1974 he joined TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . With a height of 1.90 m, his competition weight was 110 kg.

Career as an author

After studying sport and geography during and after his sporting career, Edwin Klein worked as a high school teacher at the Max Planck high school in Trier. After a work accident (disastrous outcome of a gymnastics aid for a student) during a sports lesson, he was retired early due to health reasons. Klein has lived as a freelance writer in Saarburg since 1990 . He has written over twenty books so far, including nine children's books under the pseudonym Ed Elkin . The focus of his literary work are "action-oriented political thrillers". Probably his most successful novel, Bitter Victory, from 1992, which has been translated into several languages, was set in the field of athletics and dealt with the problem of doping.

Works (selection)

  • 1990 Code name BILOG , Droemer Knaur 2982
  • 1991 Der Schattenläufer , Rasch and Röhring Verlag
  • 1991 Sleeping Bear , Droemer Knaur 3110
  • 1991 VANNIC , Rasch and Röhring Verlag
  • 1991 Family Magic, Droemer Knaur 3131
  • 1992 Bitter Victory , Rasch and Röhring Verlag
  • 1992 Chimera plot , Droemer Knaur TB 60036
  • 1992 Was ist Was band 93 Olympia , Tessloff Verlag
  • 1993 Die Kanzlerpuppe , Rasch and Röhring (paperback as "Marionetten der Macht", then "Die Kanzlermarionette")
  • 1994 The Russian doll , Droemer Knaur TB 67029
  • 1995 The King of Siberia , Rasch and Röhring
  • 1997 Battle of the Idols , Rasch and Röhring
  • 1998 Des Fame Wahn , Rasch and Röhring
  • 2005 Fatal Insurance , Vlg Michael Weyand
  • 2006 Graues Erbe , Vlg Michael Weyand
  • 2007 Turkish Wind , Verlag Weyand
  • 2009 The Awakening , SWB-Verlag
  • 2010 The Paulus Papers , SWB-Verlag
  • 2010 Die Kanzlermarionette , Südwestbuch (new edition Marionettes of Power )
  • 2011 The assassin's daughter , Südwestbuch (SWB)
  • 2012 The Cancer Candidate , Südwestbuch (SWB)
  • 2013 The sixth cross , Südwestbuch (SWB)
  • 2015 The Voice of Death , Südwestbuch (SWB)
  • 2016 The Kiss of Death , SWB

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon of German crime fiction authors
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Conc