Frank Goyke

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Frank Goyke (born November 24, 1961 in Rostock ) is a German writer.

Life

Goyke did his military service in the NVA after graduating from high school . During his time in the army he published his first texts in the literary magazine Temperamente and received the sponsorship award of the 11th Central Poetry Seminar of the FDJ in Schwerin in summer 1981 . From 1983 to 1988 he studied theater studies in Leipzig . There he met his fellow student Oliver Schwarzkopf, whose publishing houses (edition monade, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf ) gave him priority to publish in the 1990s. After completing his studies, Goyke worked in Berlin as editor of the temperaments and lecturer at the Neues Leben publishing house . At the same time he worked as an IM for the Ministry for State Security until 1989 . From 1991 to 1996 he was dramaturge at the Berlin off-theater group manufaktur b , led by Jürgen Bonk (since 1994 as Theater Fürst Oblomov in Novalisstrasse in Mitte ). For the theater he wrote plays such as Crashkids , Kids & Sex & Drug 'n' Roll and Enterprise Green War . He has been working as a freelance writer since 1997. He lives in Berlin.

Since 1992 Goyke has mainly published detective novels, including the series about Chief Inspector Dietrich Kölling, which was set initially in Leipzig and then in Berlin, the crime novels (published under a pseudonym) with the gay Jewish writer and hobby investigator Martin Roth as the main character and a series of historical, in the 14th . to the 16th century for the series Hansekrimis of the publishing house Die Hanse der EVA . Since 2008 Goyke has published several volumes of a crime series in be.bra verlag in which Theodor Fontane acts as a private investigator. He also wrote for the series Ostseekrimi published by Hinstorff from 2011. There, the first volume of a planned series of historical crime novels appeared in 2015, in which the writer Fritz Reuter acts as an investigator. In addition to his thrillers, Goyke also published documentaries, advisory literature and gay erotic in anthologies such as Mein schwules Auge .

For his second Kölling novel Greetings from the Boss , Goyke was nominated for the renowned Glauser crime prize. The sixth volume, Dummer Junge, Toter Junge , received the Raymond Chandler Society's 1996 Marlowe for best German-language detective novel.

Works

Dietrich Kölling crime novels

  • The little Parisian . edition monade, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-929130-02-2 (= Leipzig-Crime, Volume 3). Reprinted in 1999 as Goldmann-Taschenbuch 44222.
  • Greetings from the boss . edition monade, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-929139-11-1 / ISBN 3-929139-10-3 (= Berlin-Crime, Volume 2). Reprinted in 1999 as Goldmann-Taschenbuch 44220, ISBN 3-442-44220-6 .
    • The first two Dietrich-Kölling novels were also published in an anthology, Der kleine Pariser, by Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89602-066-8 in a modified, larger format.
  • Faster, higher, further . edition monade, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-929139-14-6 (= Berlin-Crime, Volume 5). Reprinted in 2000 as Goldmann-Taschenbuch 44215, ISBN 3-442-44215-X .
  • Give me a call . edition monade, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-929139-19-7 (= Berlin-Crime, Volume 9).
  • Tegel tragedy . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-929139-23-5 (= Berlin-Crime, Volume 13).
  • Stupid boy, dead boy . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89602-042-0 (= Berlin-Crime, Volume 18).
  • Witch dance . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89602-117-6 .
  • Fear of hell . berlin.krimi.verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89809-016-7 .
  • Matricide . Rotbuch, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-434-54060-1 .

Martin Roth crime novels (under the pseudonym "Hans van Gulden")

  • Beautiful citizens . edition monade, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-929139-12-X (= Berlin-Crime, Volume 3).
  • Amok and coma . edition monade, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-929139-16-2 (= Berlin-Crime, Volume 7).
  • Mazze and scale length . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-130-3 .

Hanseatic crime stories

Theodor Fontane crime novels

Baltic thrillers

More fiction

  • Boys love . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89602-035-8 .
  • Felix, mon amour . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89602-054-4 .
  • (with Torsten Schulz) Daniel's punishment . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-359-00829-4 (= DIE, volume 195).
  • (Chain novel with numerous other authors) A nasty surprise. 24 authors for 24 days . Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-43296-X (= rororo 43296)
  • Faithful to death . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-360-01220-8 (= DIE, volume 220).
  • Hero battle . Rake-Verlag, Kiel 2001, ISBN 3-931476-32-4 .
  • Heel money. The pretty woman and the death of the merchant . berlin.krimi.verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89809-029-9 .

Short stories in anthologies

  • The security guard and the girl . In: Berlin noir. S-Bahn stories . Rotbuch, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88022-433-1 (other contributions by Bärbel Balke, Thea Dorn , Heiner Lau and Carl Wille).
  • Anger and tenderness of the sea . In: Velvet Nights. Stories of love and candlelight . Knaur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-426-61845-1 .
  • Birth and death in the animal kingdom . In: Cold-blooded Ibex. Astro crime novels . Ullstein, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-548-25183-8 .
  • Happy birthday . In: Queer Crime. Lesbian and gay crime stories . Querverlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89656-076-X .
  • The Yu Men Gu An from Ottendorf . In: Passion criminelle. Erotic thrillers with a shot . Europa-Verlag, Hamburg 2003. ISBN 3-203-79202-8 .

Non-fiction

Translations

  • Richard Busch & Norma Liu: Beijing Connection . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-129-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Goyke, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gulden, Hans van (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock