Reinhard Jahn (Author)
Reinhard Jahn (born October 19, 1955 in Saalfeld / Saale ) is a German publicist and crime novelist . As an author he writes under the pseudonyms "HP Karr" and "John Miller".
Life
Reinhard Jahn studied journalism, German and English. He lives in Essen , where he grew up and works as a freelance writer and journalist. In addition to novels, the focus of his work is on short stories, radio plays and crime thrillers.
He is one of the co-founders of the Bochum Crime Archive , a collection point for all information relating to the German crime scene, which also organizes the annual award of the German Crime Prize . As HP Karr, Jahn has been writing crime stories and radio plays with Walter Wehner since 1988 .
Awards
- 1988 Walter Serner Prize from Sender Free Berlin
- 1989 Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize of the City of Aachen (with Walter Wehner )
- 1989 Ruhr Area Literature Prize / Sponsorship Prize
- 1996 Friedrich Glauser Prize (with Walter Wehner )
- 2000 Ruhr Area Literature Prize (with Walter Wehner )
- 2012 Westphalian Short Radio Play Award (with Walter Wehner )
- 2012 Urban Crime Stories Award from neobooks and Literatur Quickies-Verlag (with Walter Wehner )
- 2018 Friedrich Glauser Prize for Best Crime Short Story (with Walter Wehner ) for Here in Tremonia
Works
Detective novels
- 1979 STOP der Juwelenbande, Franz Schneider Verlag OA
- 1981 STOP the counterfeiters, Franz Schneider Verlag OA
- 1985 Or Mord, Mülheim / R OA
- 1991 MURDER! Crime stories to solve yourself, (rororo 8908) OA
- 1992 The killing continues, (rororo 8917) OA
- 1992 (together with Walter Wehner) Berbersommer (Stories), A4-Vlg, OA
- 1994 (together with Walter Wehner) Geierfrühling, Haffmans Verlag, OA HC (GONZO novel # 1)
- 1995 (together with Walter Wehner) Rattensommer, Haffmans Verlag, OA HC (GONZO novel # 2)
- 1996 (together with Walter Wehner) Bloody Summer, Henselowsky Boschmann, OA HC
- 1997 (together with Walter Wehner) Tödliche Bücher, literacard, Delius, OA
- 1997 (together with Walter Wehner) Hühnerherbst, Haffmans Verlag, OA HC (GONZO novel # 3)
- 1997 Murder Is Not For Men (ECON 25161) OA
- 1998 A nasty surprise ( chain novel with Gisbert Haefs with Frank Göhre, Janwillem van de Wetering, DB Blettenberg, Uta-Maria * Heim, Jürgen Alberts, Helmut Ziegler, Peter Zeindler, Gunter Gerlach, Peter Schmidt, Robert Lynn, -ky, Tatjana Kruse , Robert Brack, Daniel Douglas Wissmann, Regula Venske, Thea Dorn, Georg M. Oswald, Ann Camones, Hartmut Mechtel, Virginia Doyle and Norbert Klugmann) (rororo 43296) OA
- 1999 (together with Barbara Hölscher) Double wins (ECON-List 25252) OA
- 1999 (together with Walter Wehner) Bullenwinter, Haffmans Verlag, Raben Krimi 8, OA HC (GONZO novel # 4)
- 2000 (together with Walter Wehner) The John Lennon plot (juvenile crime), Verlag der Criminale, OA (also e-book)
- 2000 The summit (chain novel, together with Doris Gercke, Ingrid Noll, Edith Kneifl, Regula Venske, Frank Göhre, Gisbert Haefs, Robert Hältner and Jürgen Alberts) Heyne, OA HC
- 2000 guessing thrillers to solve yourself, VPM, OA HC (also e-book)
- 2001 More guessing thrillers to solve yourself, VPM, OA HC
- 2002 crime thrillers for young people, Moewig-VPM, HC OA
- 2002 (Hrsgb, together with Jürgen Kehrer and Herbert Knorr) Mord am Hellweg (Stories), grafit 271, OA
- 2004 (Hrsgb, together with Herbert Knorr) Mehr Morde am Hellweg (Stories) grafit, OA
- 2005 Hotel TERMINUS (joint novel by Regula Venske, Silvia Kaffke, HP Karr, Edith Kneifl, Ralf Kramp, Christine Lehmann, * Birgit H. Hölscher, Horst Eckert, Roger M. Fiedler, Peter Zeindler, Jürgen Alberts and Walter Wehner) construction 2113, OA
- 2006 (Hrsgb, with Herbert Knorr) Mord am Hellweg III, graphite, OA
- 2008 (Hrsgb, with Herbert Knorr) Mord am Hellweg IV, graphite, OA
- 2009 (Hrsgb) Murderous Landscapes - Deadly Baltic Sea, KBV, OA
- 2009 (Hrsgb) Murderous Landscapes - Hang in the Shaft, KBV, OA
- 2010 (together with Walter Wehner) Feuerspiele (youth crime thriller) Verlag an der Ruhr, OA
- 2010 (Hrsgb, with Herbert Knorr and Sigrun Krauss) Mord am Hellweg V, grafit, OA
- 2011 (Hrsgb) Murderous Landscapes - Layer in the Shaft, KBV, OA
- 2010 (with Walter Wehner) Feuerspiele, youth thriller, Mülheim: Verlag an der Ruhr, OA
- 2011 (with Walter Wehner) Snow Kings, youth thriller, Mülheim: Vlg an der Ruhr, OA
- 2011 Agency LUX - full risk, e-book, chilli / satzweiß
- 2012 (with Herbert Knorr and Sirgun Krauss, Hrsgb) Calendar of death - Mord am Hellweg VI, Dortmund: grafit, OA
Detective radio plays
- 1979 The Murder That Was a Murder, SR
- 1979 The White Night, SWF 55 min
- 1979 Dead Capital, WDR 45 min
- 1979 unrecognized, SWF 55 min
- 1980 Life sentence, HR 45 min
- 1981 Flying high, WDR 45 min
- 1982 final in Frankfurt, HR 45 min
- 1983 A smooth half a million, HR
- 1983 Escape to Freedom, HR
- 1983 Aunt Mabel is sleeping, HR (BR 1987)
- 1983 Murder was never mentioned, HR
- 1984 Dexter determined, SR
- 1984 The Nassauer Affair, NDR, 20 min
- 1984 Rent in the basement, HR 1984
- 1984 This is a raid, WDR 20 min
- 1984 Green corpse murder case, HR
- 1984 Snow White, HR 50 min
- 1984 interim report, HR 45 min
- 1985 Good old David, HR
- 1985 The ends justify the means, HR
- 1985 Three times is no coincidence HR, (SDR 1987)
- 1985 murder spoils prices, HR
- 1985 Mrs. Pinkerton has a suspicion of SR
- 1985 Pourquoi Madame Robinson est-elle morte? Radio Suisse Romande
- 1985 Tell me where the killers are, HR
- 1985 Tell me where the killers are, SDR (HR 1985)
- 1985 Zeitz gives good tips, HR
- 1986 Old Cesare's Secret, SDR
- 1986 The house on the edge of the forest, SDR
- 1986 The Girl with the Golden Eyes, SDR
- 1986 A thing for Theodor, SDR
- 1986 Women are unpredictable, SDR
- 1986 Henry Hertz knows how to help SDR
- 1986 I assure you, HR
- 1986 In the lion's den, SDR
- 1986 Three-player chess, SDR
- 1987 Brents Bluff, SDR
- 1987 The house of Don Alvarez, SDR
- 1987 The Charm of Mrs. Ballentine, SDR
- 1987 The lady two tables down, BR
- 1987 woman at the wheel, SDR
- 1987 Better safe than sorry, SDR
- 1987 Tooth for a tooth, SDR
- 1987 Sugar for the Shark, SDR
- 1988 The Girl with the Golden Eyes, SDR
- 1988 Certainty for Monsieur Antoine, SDR
- 1988 Heart of Glass, SDR
- 1988 With a Woman's Guns, SDR
- 1988 Like you me ..., SDR
- 1989 Not a penny for the widow, SDR
- 1989 code 777, SDR
- 1989 Double bottomed murder, SDR
- 1989 Tell the truth, sister. SDR
- 1989 death of a heartbreaker. SDR
- 1989 Victor, the millionaire. SDR
- 1989 time is murder. SDR
- 1990 Bluebeard's last mistake, SDR
- 1990 Heir to MacKendrick Castle, SDR
- 1990 Everyone has only one chance to SDR
- 1990 Police Radio, SDR
- 1990 Summer Joy, SDR
- 1991 Charlie's last tip, SDR
- 1992 (together with Walter Wehner) Street free, WDR / BR 50 min
- 1992 (together with Walter Wehner) Berberstar, ORB 15 min
- 1993 (together with Walter Wehner) Seventeen wins, RB 50 min,
- 1993 The Arrangement, HR 15 min
- 1994 Scrabble, BR 45 min
- 1994 (together with Walter Wehner) key drive, SFB / BR 50 min
- 1994 (together with Walter Wehner) Beautiful Die, WDR, 50 min
- 1995 (together with Walter Wehner) Haste something in view, WDR 50 min
- 1996 (together with Walter Wehner) At the climax you have to stop WDR, 60 min
- 1996 (together with Walter Wehner) Get up again and again, WDR, 60 min
- 1998 (together with Barbara Hölscher) Cash and Carry, WDR, 50 min
- 1999 The Roman seal (6 parts, total approx. 20 min) WDR
- 1999 (together with Walter Wehner) Graceland, MDR, 50 min
- 2000 The black series (5 parts, approx. 30 min) WDR
- 2001 The black series II - The coal plot (5 parts, 30 minutes) WDR
- 2002 The Black Series III - The Golden Gate (5 parts, 30 minutes) WDR
- 2005 Formula 4000 - petrol - adrenaline - masculine (5 parts, 30 min) WDR
Others
- 1992 Lexicon of German crime fiction authors, Edition Softcrime, OA
- 1998 ff. Lexicon of German crime fiction authors - Internet edition
- 2002 Lexicon of German-language crime fiction authors (collaboration) Munich: Verlag der Criminale
- 2005 Lexicon of German-language crime authors (extended new edition) (collaboration), Munich: Verlag der Criminale
- Now sach ma! together with Walter Wehner in the Ruhr area - what your children love about you and what they don't. Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 2018. ISBN 978-3-942094-80-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinhard Jahn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of HP Karr
- The KARR & WEHNER homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jahn, Reinhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, John (pseudonym); Karr, HP (pseudonym); Karr, Hanns-Peter (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist, author and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saalfeld , GDR |