Ernst Hassler

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Ernst Heinrich Hassler , pseudonym Ernst Hall , (born September 20, 1922 in Komotau , Czechoslovakia ; † April 27, 2003 ) was a German author .

Life

Ernst Hassler grew up in the Sudetenland and had to go to the Second World War as an 18-year-old soldier. In Russia he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and worked here as a Volga raftsman, lumberjack, railroad worker and collective farm worker. The returnees completed a traineeship and became a journalist . Under various pseudonyms he published court reports, feature articles, glosses and satirical chats in daily newspapers and magazines. From 1955 he lived as a freelance journalist and writer in Fürth .

In 1963 he published under the pseudonym Ernst Hall his first crime novel, The Bells of death in Goldmann Verlag and received the Edgar Wallace Award. In 1964 this thriller was produced and broadcast as a six-part radio play with the slightly shortened title Glocken des Todes in an adaptation by Wolfgang Nied from WDR under the direction of Rolf von Goth .

He wrote other novels in the Goldmann crime series. The volume Das Ohr , published in 1978, represents an excursion into the thriller series of the Rowohlt Rotations Romane . He remained loyal to the publisher, but his following works were based on the rules of socio-crime and try to present social contexts in a crime story.

Works

As Ernst Hall

  • The bells of death (1963, 198 pages, Goldmann paperback crime thriller No. 1263)
  • Hell flight (1965, 158 pages, Goldmann paperback crime thriller No. 2099)
  • The ear (1978, rororo no.2455)
  • Gallows period (1981, rororo No. 2553)
  • They Will Say It Was Murder (1981, rororo # 2571)
  • It's no longer worth it (1983, rororo no.2649)
  • The Radical Cure (1986, 157 pages, Goldmann Taschenbuch Krimi No. 4999)
  • Divorce in Franconian (1987, 157 pages, Goldmann crime thriller No. 5038)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Jockers, Reinhard Jahn: Hall, Ernst In: Lexicon of German-language crime authors: With the collaboration of the recorded authors. Book & Media Verlag; 2. change Edition 2005, p. 111. ISBN 978-3-86520-093-8
  2. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/hoerspiel/421375/
  3. ↑ http://www.krimilexikon.de/hall.htm
personal data
SURNAME Hassler, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassler, Ernst Heinrich (full name); Hall, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Komotau
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2003