Friedhelm Werremeier

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Friedhelm Werremeier ( January 30, 1930 in Witten - November 14, 2019 ) was a German writer and screenwriter . He also wrote under the pseudonym Jacob Wittenbourg .

biography

Werremeier attended the municipal high school for young people in Witten and completed training at the Academy for Journalism in Aachen . After an internship at the NRZ in Düsseldorf , he worked as a reporter and editor for various newspapers and magazines. a. at the Stern and at the Quick .

Werre Meier became known about since 1970 especially as a thriller - Author , the shape of the main commissioner Paul Trimmel created (on TV until 1982 by Walter Richter shown); Werremeier also wrote the scripts for numerous Tatort episodes. In addition, Werremeier presented committed investigations into outstanding criminal cases with a (pedo) sexual background and their populist processing by the judiciary; even before Paul Moor, he was the first to write his book Am I a person for the zoo? (1968) reacted to the judicial scandal in the first trial against Jürgen Bartsch . Later he dealt in detail with the cases of Erwin Hagedorn ( Der Fall Heckenrose , 1975) and Fritz Haarmann (1992).

In 1993 Werremeier received the honorary award of the Friedrich Glauser Prize . He lived in Bad Bevensen , was widowed and had a son. Friedhelm Werremeier died in November 2019 at the age of 89 and was buried in the Bad Bevensen cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • Am I human for the zoo? The Jürgen Bartsch case: Report on four murdered children and the young person who killed them. Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden 1968
  • The dog rose case. With an afterword by Rolf Bossi . Bertelsmann, Munich / Gütersloh / Vienna 1975
  • Hair man. Obituary for a werewolf - the story of the mass murderer Friedrich Haarmann, his victims and his hunters. vgs, Cologne 1992
    • as TB: Haarmann. The butcher of Hanover - the horrific crimes of the notorious serial killer. Heyne, Munich 1995. ISBN 3-453-08907-3 .
  • Brain trust. Crime stories. Piper, Munich and Zurich 1994
  • All happiness on earth. Novel for the ARD television series, with Richard Mackenrodt. Piper, Munich and Zurich 1994
  • Two crime stories. Klett, Stuttgart 2000
  • Taxi to Leipzig. Criminal Morals History of Germany (1970). Novel. Edition Cologne - Peter Faecke (Krimi & Co.), Cologne 2008

Some Trimmel novels

  1. I sell myself exclusively , rororo Thriller, Reinbek 1968 (filmed in 1969 as Exklusiv ! , later added to the Tatort series)
  2. Taxi to Leipzig , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1970 (also the very first “ Tatort ” thriller on November 29, 1970)
  3. Without landing permission , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1971
  4. The judge in white , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1971
  5. Refusal for Trimmel , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1972
  6. An EKG for Trimmel , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1972
  7. Trimmel opens a barrel , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1973
  8. Treff mit Trimmel , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1974 (crime stories)
  9. Trimmel and the tulip thief , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1974
  10. Trimmel makes a plea , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1976
  11. Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1976
  12. Trimmel is afraid of the moon , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1977 (crime stories)
  13. Trimmel and Isolde , rororo thriller, Reinbek 1980
  14. Trimmel and the tax office , Heyne, Munich 1982
  15. Trimmel's last case , Pendragon, Bielefeld 2009

Further crime stories by Werremeier have appeared in crime anthologies .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituaries of Friedhelm Werremeier | AZ.Trauer.de. Accessed November 24, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Taxi to Leipzig , review at Krimi-Couch.de , July 2008
personal data
SURNAME Werremeier, Friedhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittenbourg, Jacob (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2019