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Heiger Ostertag (born August 30, 1953 in Itzehoe ) is a German officer , historian , high school teacher and writer .

Life

After graduating from high school , Ostertag joined the air force of the German armed forces , where he completed officer and flight training; his last rank was lieutenant colonel .

Ostertag then completed a master's degree at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a focus on Scandinavian Studies , German Studies and History . A traineeship followed . In 1989 he was awarded the dissertation Education, Training and Education, sponsored by Hans Fenske . Elite ideal, claim and reality in the officer corps in the German Empire 1871–1918 for Dr. phil. PhD .

In the next few years he worked as a lecturer in history in Munich and as a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau .

In 1993 he became a teacher at Waldorf schools . From 1996 he taught at the same time at Heilbronn and Stuttgart grammar schools as well as at Waldorf schools.

Ostertag has been an author since the late 1980s. So far he has published almost 30 novels. The writer is a member of the authors' association Gruppe 48. There he is a juror for 2017 and 2018. In 2011/12 he was a juror for the Friedrich Glauser Prize (crime crime prize).

Heiger Ostertag lives in Berlin- Prenzlauer Berg.

Works (selection)

Fiction

• Flight flock. Narration . Fischer, Aachen 1991, ISBN 3-927854-08-5 .
• Falling shadow. Novel. [Detective novel] . SWB, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-938719-02-8 .
• Fleeing time. Novel . SWB, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-938719-08-7 .
• What remains. Die Reise des Jusup W. SWB, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-938719-84-8 .
• Flowing mist. [Detective novel] . SWB, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-938719-04-6 .
• A deep blue Berlin . SWB, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-938719-71-8 .
• Not without Leoni. The case. [Novel] . SWB, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-938719-72-5 .
• Red is dead. [Murder in the Leonhardsviertel. A Stuttgart thriller] . SWB, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-938719-16-9 .
• Death in the brew. An eel thriller . SWB, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-938719-26-8 .
• Venner's fatal dreams. Murder on Lake Constance . SWB, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-938719-29-9 .
• Bittersweet death. A mountain road thriller . SWB, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-938719-88-6 .
• German Empire 2014. A historical fiction . SWB, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-938719-32-9 .
• Deadly game. A Baden thriller. [Rien ne vas plus] . SWB, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-938719-58-9 .
• Opera death. An Ostalb thriller . SWB, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-942661-07-2 .
• The Mömpelgard affair. The adventures of the Junker Carl von Schack. Historical novel . Theiss, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2579-2 .
• The stolen collar of Franziska von Hohenheim. The adventures of the Junker Carl von Schack. Historical novel . Theiss, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2731-4 .
• Operation fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin 1962. [A history thriller] . SWB, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-942661-50-8 .
• Potsdam affair. Detective novel . Gmeiner, Meßkirch 2013, ISBN 978-3-8392-1450-3 .
• On the secret order of the tsarina. From the adventures of the Junker Carl von Schack . SWB, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-944264-35-6 .
• Valkyries ride. Roman SWB, Stuttgart 2014, 978-3-944264-44-8.
• Operation Sarajevo. Detective novel. [On the eve of the First World War] . Gmeiner, Meßkirch 2014, ISBN 978-3-8392-1624-8 .
• Whoever murders does not write poetry. A Neckar Alb thriller . SWB, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-944264-72-1 .
• Death is red. A Stuttgart thriller . SWB, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-944264-88-2 .
• Bandits and brigands. The Italian trip. From the adventures of the Junker Carl von Schack. [Novel] . SWB, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-944264-86-8 .
• Abysses of power. Historical novel. Gmeiner, Meßkirch 2015, ISBN 978-3-8392-1652-1 .
• Under the spell of the revolution . SWB, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-945769-41-6 .
• Verdun file . Gmeiner Verlag. Meßkirch 2016, ISBN 978-3-8392-1975-1
• The Hitler Code . SWB, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-946686-43-9
• The Lenin Files , SWB, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-946686-44-6

Non-fiction

Author / editor

• Education, training and education of the officer corps in the German Empire, 1871 to 1918. Elite ideal, claim and reality (= European university publications . Series 3. History and its auxiliary sciences . Volume 416). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1990, ISBN 3-631-42489-2 .
• with Hans-Martin Ottmer (Ed.): Selected operations and their military-historical bases (= operational thinking and acting in German armed forces . 4). On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Mittler, Herford et al. 1993, ISBN 3-8132-0371-9 .

Employee

• Bernhard R. Kroener (Ed.): Potsdam. State, army, residence . Ullstein, Propylaen, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-549-05328-2 .
• Karl-Volker Neugebauer (Ed.): Basic features of German military history. Volume 2: Work and source book . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, ISBN 3-7930-0662-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heiger Ostertag in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Heiger Ostertag  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Heiger Ostertag in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Heiger Ostertag in the directory of authors in Baden-Württemberg
• Website of the von Heiger Ostertag