Heiner Gross

Heiner Gross (born December 2, 1923 in Winterthur ; † May 2, 1993 ) was a Swiss writer for young people. The son of a Winterthur city police officer initially worked as a machine draftsman and excavator entrepreneur, at the age of 39 he changed his career and became a journalist and writer , the flair for technology can be felt again and again in his works. The greatest successes were the children's book trilogy 3: 0 for the beards (1959; over 300,000 copies sold), tumult on the Kyburg and Sabor's wonder boat, and the youth crime trilogy Der Schwarze Jack .

Works

Youth book series "Wunderland"

• 3-0 for the beards, the adventures of Hans Butz. Told for children from 10 years and for adults who are young at heart , illustrated by Werner Buchi, Schweizer, Zürich 1959, reprint: Cardun, Winterthur 1992, ISBN 3-907803-02-7 .
• Tumult on the Kyburg
• Sabor's wonder boat
• Hal Rochel's Land Pirates (1993)

AG Pinkerton

• AG Pinkerton and the Eyewitness (1966)
• AG Pinkerton and the Tiger Gang (1967)
• AG Pinkerton and the Man with the Ostrich Stomach (1968)
• AG Pinkerton: The Scary Pharaoh
• AG Pinkerton: Help the Monster Comes (1986)
• AG Pinkerton: Who knows Rotmütze

The black jack

• Black Jack (1971)
• The shadow of the black jack
• Greetings from Black Jack (1972)

Morgan's criminal cases

• The Phantom Gang (Volume 1)
• The Mysterious Gas Pipe (Volume 2) (1978)
• The Rock of Terror (Volume 3) (1979)

Professor series

• The red Wendelin (1972)
• Father Our Best Striker (1974)
• Dragula the Fire Eater (1975)
• The black stallion in the school basement (1976)

Individual works

• Bill Nackenschlag and the Twins (1972)
• The Green Death, SJW, 1973
• The blue tavern
• The red lantern (1969)
• The Green Head (1969)
• Who is Goldeye? (1972)
• Willi and the Flying Tram (1970)
• Wurlitzer & Co. (1976)

Web links

• Publications by and about Heiner Gross in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Heiner Gross in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Märchenhelden , NZZ am Sonntag, December 11, 2005 (letter to the editor from Heiner Dübi)