Hans G. Bentz

Hans Georg Bentz (born September 5, 1902 in Berlin , † December 31, 1968 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a German writer. His animal books and crime novels were particularly successful. The famous Berlin criminalist Ernst Gennat was the model for his figure of the criminal director Türk .

At 15, Bentz published his first stories in the Berliner Tageblatt . After graduating from high school, he was a trainee at the Vossische Zeitung and, at the age of 27, became editor-in-chief of the Berliner Morgenpost . The National Socialists deposed him from this position. From 1945 he was editor-in-chief in Munich. He was successful with books from the 1950s. He also voiced his story Tommy for a long-playing record.

Bentz died in 1968 of complications from a stroke .

Novels

• The Bund der drei (1952), ISBN 3-453-00065-X
• Gute Nacht, Jakob (1954), ISBN 3-453-00053-6
• Everyone loves Peter (1956), ISBN 3-87179-118-0
• Two daughters on credit (1961), ISBN 3-453-00045-5
• Two daughters and three dogs (1965), ISBN 3-453-00048-X
• The Witch from Paradise (1965)
• Well such a donkey (1965), ISBN 3-453-00080-3
• Puck - Novel of a Foxl (1967), ISBN 3-453-00171-0
• Hasso: Roman of a Shepherd Dog, ISBN 3-87179-253-5
• Two against five (1967), ISBN 3-453-00272-5
• My Dogs As They Really Are (1971)
• Dangerous desires
• Light from across the street
• All my cars - Herrenfahrer Lust und Leid (1961), ISBN 3-453-01245-3
• Willi the hedgehog, ISBN 3-87179-235-7
• Tommy, ISBN 3-442-03730-1
• Our dogs - Our friends (Ed.)
• Police car 220 (1957)
• Detective Director Türk Novels:
  • Faster than Death - Homicide Squad Novel, ISBN 3-453-00586-4
  • Kriminaldirektor Türks worst case (1964), ISBN 3-453-00419-1
  • The Fat and the Mafia (1966)
  • The strange face

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans G. Bentz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans G. Bentz in the dictionary of German crime authors