Hardy Crueger

Hardy Crueger , born Hardy Krüger (* 1962 in Oldenburg ) is a German writer . Since 2004 he has been using the stage name Hardy Crueger to avoid confusion with the actor of the same name, Hardy Krüger . Crueger lives in Braunschweig .

Life

After training in industry, Crueger obtained the university entrance qualification at the Institute for Adult Education ( Braunschweig-Kolleg ) in Braunschweig . He did community service in geriatric care and studied political science, sociology and history at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

In the early 1980s, Hardy Crueger gained his first stage experience as a guitarist and bassist, which he benefited from reading from the 1990s onwards in the context of the literary underground movement Social Beat . After the first volume of the Rick Xaver Morton romance trilogy ( RXM , 1996-2006), the final turn to literature came with the novel Glashaus (2004).

Hardy Crueger has been a freelance writer and lecturer in creative writing since 2009 . In addition to managing the Braunschweig crime thriller workshop , he organizes literary events and carries out numerous literary projects, such as readings staged together with actor Roland Kremer that go far beyond simply reading texts aloud. Since 2010 readings of the crime stories Oker stories together with jazz musicians.

Works (selection)

Fonts

• Divine mead. Roman. Rainar Nitzsche Verlag, Kaiserslautern 1993, ISBN 3-9802102-6-X .
• My week. Stories. Dead Monkey Verlag André Henze, Berlin 1995.
• The Rick Xaver Morton detective novels:
  • Volume 1: Amateurs. Andreas Reiffer, Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-934896-26-X .
  • Volume 2: Professionals. Andreas Reiffer, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-934896-27-8 .
  • Volume 3: Experts. Andreas Reiffer, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-934896-90-1 .
• Glass house. Novel. alia fabula, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-937536-99-X .
• Oker stories - crime, madness, passion. Stories. Braunschweig 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-036818-9 .
• The Duke, the Robber and the Goldsmith's Daughter. Novel. Kiel 2014, ISBN 978-3-945242-03-2 .
• Madhouse. Novel. eBook 2015, ISBN 978-3-7393-0619-3 .
• The hour of the flames. Novel. KBV Verlags- und Mediengesellschaft, Hillesheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-95441-252-5 .
• The Other War - The Odyssey of Victor Rosenfels. Novel. Kiel 2015, ISBN 978-3-945242-16-2 .
• 111 reasons to love crime fiction. Non-fiction. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86265-604-2 .
• The blood game. Novel. KBV Verlags- und Mediengesellschaft, Hillesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-95441-366-9 .

Radio plays

• Choir of the Damned. Audio piece. Braunschweig 1996.
• In good hands. Rick Xaver Morton detective radio play. Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-934896-25-1 .

• Simply GEL - or whatever you always wanted to know about Lessing ... audio book. Braunschweig 2015

Editions

• with Jörg André Dahlmeyer: Nothing new in Germany. Leutkirch 1992.
• The very different cases of private detective Rick Xaver Morton. Essen 1994.
• The coupling project. Berlin 1997.
• The disruptor. Literary magazine, with Jörg André Dahlmeyer, Braunschweig 1990–1992, Berlin 1992–1998.
• Reading books of the KrimiWerkstatt Braunschweig: Eyewitnesses. (2006), Murderous Christmas Gifts. (2009), Bitter Murder. (2010), The Kemenate. (2010), Silent Night: The Evil Advent Calendar. (2013).
• Road fatalities and other accidents audio book, Braunschweig 2014.
• There is murder on Mondays. Stories, Osterwieck 2011, ISBN 978-3-926560-56-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hardy Crueger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} About me on hardycrueger.de, accessed on June 5, 2013.
2. ↑ Glashaus on literaturnetz.com (book presentation and other works)
3. ↑ Readings on hardycrueger.de, accessed on June 5, 2013.
4. ↑ Lectures and readings: The 13th Oker Story: The Downfall - Catastrophes Thriller on braunschweig.de, accessed on June 5, 2013.