Hartmut Mechtel
Hartmut Mechtel (born March 5, 1949 in Potsdam ) is a German writer , journalist , actor and theater maker.
After graduating from high school in 1967, he worked as a volunteer at the daily Märkische Volksstimme in Potsdam and studied from 1970 to 1974 at the journalism section of the Leipzig Karl Marx University . For the daily newspaper Freie Erde in Neubrandenburg he worked as a local editor in Altentreptow until 1978 and since then as a freelance author, critic and actor.
Mechtel is best known for its science fiction stories and crime novels . The fantastic marionette television film for children, Paradise Island , was broadcast in 1987 in two parts. For his novel The Invisible Second , he was awarded the 1997 Friedrich Glauser Prize of the “German crime literature group of authors” - The Syndicate . In addition to novels and short stories, he also writes scripts for documentaries and television plays, radio plays and essays. He wrote the historical novel Strandrecht ( Excitingly told vol. 213), published under the pseudonym Dirck van Belden in 1988, together with Otto Emersleben .
His Parr trilogy , which consists of the crime novels The Invisible Second , The Net of Shadows and The Point of the Circle , received the Berlin crime fox in 2001 . At the center of the three volumes is a 40-year-old man who believes he has lost his identity and has to discover that he has none at all. Conspiracy theories, secret services and real corpses become constant companions of his life.
Works
Crime novels
- 1986: On the open street The New Berlin , Berlin / GDR, THE series
- 1987: The geomantic oracle Das Neue Berlin, Berlin / GDR, THE series
- 1988: Wanted: Jo Böttger Das Neue Berlin, Berlin / GDR, blue light 256
- 1991: Under the yacht Das Neue Berlin, Berlin / GDR, THE series
- 1992: Death in Gray (DIE 151) OA
- 1993: The vortex of death (DIE 163) OA
- 1994: The sheer madness (DIE 173) OA
- 1996: The Invisible Second (Argument Second Row) OA
- 1996: The Net of Shadows (Second Row Argument) OA
- 1998: The Top of the Circle (Argument Second Row 2028) OA
- 1998: A nasty surprise ( chain novel with other authors) (rororo 43296) OA
- 1999: Hellhounds (rororo 43359) OA
- 1999: Dangerous game (ekuinteractive) OA
- 2001: The Greed Community - a dot-com crime thriller , av-edition, OA HC
- 2002: Captains die at midnight - Hamburg: Die Hanse, 2002
- 2003: Death lurks in Danzig - Hamburg: The Hanse OA
stories
- 1985: Interrogation (SF story) in: From the diary of an ant, ed. by Michael Szameit , New Life Publishing House , Berlin / GDR
- 1990: Sifrit (SF story) in: Lichtjahr 6, ed. by Erik Simon , Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin / GDR
- 1990: Mission T (SF parody) in: Tales from the Trödelmond, ed. by Olaf R. Spittel , Das Neue Berlin publishing house, Berlin / GDR
- 1991: Fast hour (SF story) in: Alien Contact No. 6, Avalon Verlag, Berlin
- 1992: Supercontrol (SF story) in: Zeit-Spiele, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich
- 1993: Die Rast (crime story) in: In the name of the good, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich
- 2000: Berlin, 6 o'clock in the morning (crime story) in: On arrival Mord, Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim
- 2001: Foreign laurels (crime story) in: Mord im Grünen, Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim
radio
- 1990: VEB Utopia (Feature) RIAS
- 1991: The standardized crime (feature) RIAS
- 1991: Penny & Mark 1: Deadly Questions (detective radio play), 36 min, Sachsenradio
- 1992: With white gloves (court feature) MDR
- 1993: The S-Bahn Murderer (Feature) MDR
- 1994: Die Mords-Chance (Feature) DeutschlandRadio
- 1995: On the shady side (detective radio play), 50 min, MDR
- 1994: Disruption of the folk festivals prevented (feature) DeutschlandRadio
- 1998: Flower children for ten days (Feature) MDR
Web links
- Literature by and about Hartmut Mechtel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Hartmut Mechtel
- "Krimi Ost, Krimi West" - Article in the "Zeit"
- Interview in the "literature café"
- Entry in the "Lexicon of German crime authors"
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon 20. Jahrhundert , vol. 7, column 423
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mechtel, Hartmut |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | van Belden, Dirck (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |