Georg Veit (Author)

Georg Veit (born January 20, 1956 in Velen ) is a German cultural department head and writer.

Life

Georg Veit comes from a family of expellees and attended the boarding high school in Maria-Veen ( Reken / Westphalia ) for nine years . He studied history , Latin and philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he was also musically, acting and politically active. He lived in Leer / Ostfriesland for six years and worked there as a part-time teacher until he moved back to Coesfeld in the Münsterland.

Until 2014 he taught history, Latin and philosophy at the Gymnasium Nepomucenum in Coesfeld.

He became known through his crime novels about Münsterland investigator Peter-Paul "Pepa" Pfühl. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Association of German Writers (VS). From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the Coesfeld City Council for the Pro Coesfeld electoral community and chairman of the committee for culture, school and sport. In 2006 he co-founded the Bischofsmühle initiative in Coesfeld and in 2007 co-initiated the Coesfeld Culture Night. As head of the project group, Veit played a key role in the redesign of the Coesfeld City Museum in Walkenbrückentor (reopening on January 29, 2012). In 2013 he received the honorary award of the city of Coesfeld. Since April 2014 he has been head of the cultural department of the Münster district government, and since 2018 first chairman of the Annette von Droste Society.

Georg Veit is married and has three children.

Fonts

Prose / novels

• Helmuterkloße. A satire. Appendix: The Fall of Ancient Satires into Modernity. Illustrations by B. Scholz. LIT Verlag: Münster 1995.
• Time of the Krammetsvögel. Novel from the 30 years war. Waxmann Published by Münster 1997.
• At the ends of the stairs: A novel about Anna Katharina Emmerick. Waxmann Verlag: Münster 2008.
• Sweden's handling of the clouds. Elsinor: Coesfeld 2017.

Detective novels

• Münsterland Mafia. A provincial detective novel. Waxmann Published by Münster 1999.
• Cockfight. A thriller from the Münsterland. Waxmann Published by Münster 2002.
• Deadly legacy. A thriller from the Münsterland. Waxmann Published by Münster 2005.
• Killer choice. A thriller from the Münsterland. Waxmann Published by Münster 2010.
• Berger's murder. A historical crime story. Elsinor Published by Coesfeld 2012.
• Munsterland lightning. A provincial crime thriller. Waxmann Verlag: Münster 2013.

Poetry

• Shadow of the Bumblebee / Poems. Yearbook Westphalia 2001: Münster 2000
• Existence. Poems. Verlag Zum Halben Bogen: Göttingen 2001.
• The sharpness of the spruce. Poems. Federwelt 33/2002
• Destroyer. Poem. Poetry 2000 S: Norderstedt 2004
• Poems, in: Verszeit 2005: Weilerswist 2005
• Between the blinds. I want to be like a feather ...: Augsburg 2006
• Liudger I - IV. Life poems. Dialog publisher: Münster 2009
• Summer rains on the banjo. Hearing and seeing. Poetry 21: Deiningen 2010
• Berkel. Self-Discussions. Poems. Elsinor / Longinus: Coesfeld 2017

Short stories

• The night of the daughter, in: Angels, Witches, Anabaptists, Waxmann, Münster 2013
• You don't forget the dead, in: Mörderisches Münsterland, kbv: Hildesheim 2011
• Story for you, in: Palmbaum 1/2011
• Sister Rosalie. Witches, magicians, charlatans ...: o. O. 2002
• On a wall on the weekend. Am Erker 41/2001 (audio CD 2003)

Reference books

• Fabula agitur! Thoughts and help on Latin school theater: Stuttgart (Klett) 1992
• Emperor Claudius. Between power and ridicule. Exempla / Consilia: Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 1995

Other media

• Fortuna Polycratis. Radio play based on F. Schiller. In: Fabulam agamus !. Klett: Stuttgart 1990

Awards

• 2000: Jos Fritz Prize for Innovative Literature (4th Münster Literature Championship )
• 2001 Award at the Am Erker short story prize
• 2002 Internet story Olympics
• 2013 Honorary Prize of the City of Coesfeld

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Veit in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Veit in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Museum: The Child is Born , AZ online from January 27, 2012.