George Tenner

George Tenner (born April 23, 1939 ) is a German novelist and journalist .

Life

The son of the painter Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein grew up in an artist household in Dresden and, after the parents separated, in Berlin and Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea. After an apprenticeship as a craftsman and a master craftsman's examination, he ran his own business in Berlin and Ahrenshoop from 1961 until his escape from the GDR in October 1966. Tenner was friends with Johannes Tralow , who recommended that he write. The Jewish writer Bruno Frei from Vienna was also one of Tenner's circle of friends and his family.

In 1964, Tenner was arrested by the State Security for trying to flee the GDR . He was serving a one-year prison sentence in the remand prison in Frankfurt / Oder and the Rüdersdorf correctional facility. After his release, he again prepared to flee. In October 1966, he fled with his second wife Ulla-Ingelore and a friend they met while in custody in a rubber dinghy from Ahrenshoop to the lightship Gedser.

From West Berlin he researched various secret services in East and West. In 1982 he published his first novel about the GDR's secret service in connection with the Six Day War in Israel.

Because of proven persecution by the GDR State Security and a feared kidnapping or an attack on his life, Tenner left West Berlin and moved to Öhningen on Lake Constance . He worked as a freelance journalist and editor for newspaper publishers in Germany and Switzerland. From 1984 to 1990, he and his wife ran the press and PR agency -utwapress- in Öhningen .

In 1990, Tenner moved to Bernau near Berlin due to requests for repatriation.

George Tenner is a member of the German Association of Journalists . He was a member of the Syndicate group of authors until August 2012. He has been working as a freelance writer since 2002 and lives in Bernau near Berlin and temporarily on Usedom .

Works

• Der Wüstenwolf , Thriller, Herbig, 1982. ISBN 3-7766-1188-X .
• Freaked Out , Satires, MV-Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-86582-020-4 .
• The game of the nymphs , novel, MV-Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-86582-128-6 .
• The Petersplatzkomplott , Thriller, MV-Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-86582-142-1 .
• The scream of the pelican , thriller, MV-Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3-86582-289-4 .
• Hunt for the island murderer , detective novel, Schardt Verlag , 2007. ISBN 978-3-89841-329-9 .
• The smile of the Mona Lisa , detective novel / Dresden. Schardt Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978-3-89841-377-0 .
• The dragon of death , detective novel, Schardt Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978-3-89841-385-5 .
• Island of a Thousand Puppets , detective novel, Schardt Verlag. 2009, ISBN 978-3-89841-442-5 .
• Single, unmediated ... , Roman, MV-Verlag, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86582-891-0 .
• Das Haus am Hohen Ufer , autobiography, Schardt Verlag, 2009. ISBN 978-3-89841-488-3 .
• Rendezvous with Usedom , Inselgeschichten, Wartberg-Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-8313-2114-8 .
• Beyond Germany , anti-war novel, Schardt Verlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-89841-596-5 .
• Night over the island , detective novel, Schardt Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-89841-651-1 .
• Im Schatten der Roten Mühle , Thriller, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013, ISBN 978-1-4800-7738-6 .
• Shadow over the island , detective novel, Schardt Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-89841-707-5 .
• Monet and Death on the Island , detective novel, Schardt Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-89841-743-3 .
• In the long shadow of Otto Dix , vita / illustrated book of the art forger Rüdiger Faller, ISBN 978-3-89841-825-6 .
• Death between the Islands , Schardt Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-89841-894-2 .
• Death is not a black figure , epubli 2017/2018, ISBN 978-3-7467-8042-9 .
• Island of Transience , Schardt Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-96152-120-3 .
• Five days in Karlsbad , epubli 2018, ISBN 978-3-7467-8785-5 .
• The Potsdam Conspiracy , epubli 2020 ISBN 978-3-7502-5405-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about George Tenner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage