Heinrich Peuckmann

Heinrich Peuckmann (born July 15, 1949 in Kamen ) is a German writer and high school teacher.

Heinrich Peuckmann in the Yu Garden in Shanghai, 2006

Life

Heinrich Peuckmann passed his Abitur in 1968 at the Aufbaugymnasium in Unna . One of his classmates was the actor Dieter Pfaff . After studying German , history and Protestant theology in Bochum , Peuckmann worked from 1974 to 2011 as a teacher at the municipal high school in the city of Bergkamen .

His areas of work as a writer are poems, short stories, novels, essays, reports, plays, radio plays, children's books and crime novels. Two series of Peuckmann novels have become known. Even his crime series about the Commissioner Anselm Becker, along with its row with Ruhr novels (u. A. Escape to the mountain , Shadow Boxer , changing strings , empty days ). In 1988 Peuckmann was awarded the advancement award for young artists. He was a member of the working group literature .

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany , the Association of German Writers , the literary association “ Die Kogge ” and the crime authors' association “ Das Syndikat ”. At the 2013 PEN annual conference in Marburg, Heinrich Peuckmann was elected to the Presidium and on May 10, 2019 in Chemnitz as Secretary General of the PEN Center Germany. In 2006 he was visiting professor at the Tongji University in Shanghai and in 2007, 2008 and 2012 at the Foreign Language University Jiaotong University in Xi'an .

Peuckmann is the father of three sons and lives in his birthplace Kamen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Works

• Father's friends . Stories. Oberhausen 1984.
• Unmistakably red . Stories. Oberhausen 1989.
• Crack in the facade . Stories. Cologne 1990.
• Quiet words, foreign land: stories, essays, poems about a lost utopia. Oberhausen 1991.
• The view from the kiosk . Stories. Bönen 1995.
• The shadow boxers . Novel. Munich 2000.
• The heroes from the football west: stories, legends, anecdotes . Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2001.
• The apron trick and other incidents. Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2002.
• More heroes from the football west . Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2003.
• The song at the butterfly springs: Tales from Asia. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2004.
• Return to Shanghai . Novel. Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2004.
• The dancer's son. Novel. Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2008.
• The forward driver. Stories. Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2009.
• Baku and the Wembley goal: football book (together with Michael Nosiadek). Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2009.
• The shadow boxers. Revised new edition. Asso-Verlag, Oberhausen 2010.
• Change of strings. Novel. Asso-Verlag, Oberhausen 2012.
• Empty days. Novel. Asso-Verlag, Oberhausen 2014.
• The long journey of Mr. Balzac. Novelle, Lychatz Verlag, Leipzig 2016.
• Shift change. Poetic firedamp. Edited together with Gerd Puls . Asso Verlag, Oberhausen 2017.
• Dangerous game. Football novels, culture machines Ochsenfurth 2018.
• The burning sky in the Ruhr area - what your children love about you and what they don't. Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 2018. ISBN 978-3-942094-80-1 .
• From the Roman track , Lychartz Verlag, Leipzig 2018.

Poetry

• Dream. Poetry graphic folder. With graphics by Willi Sitte . Bonen 1991.
• Summer is falling . Poetry. With graphics by Stephan Geisler . Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2007.
• Recall. To forget. Poetry book with graphics by Willi Sitte. Lychatz-Verlag, Leipzig 2013.
• Not the power of stones. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2017.
• And collect pictures. Poems. Asso Verlag, Oberhausen 2019.

Detective novels

• Devil stuff . Detective novel, Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2005 ( ISBN 3-402-03196-5 ).
• Schiller's legacy. Detective novel. Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2006.
• Party mood . Detective novel. Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2007.
• Second Life. Detective novel. Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2008.
• Arm board. Detective novel. Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2009.
• Homecoming. Detective novel. Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2010.
• The pendulum. Detective novel. Lychatz-Verlag, Leipzig 2011.
• Out of nowhere. Detective novel. Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2011.
• Lake of silence. Detective novel. Lychatz-Verlag, Leipzig 2012.
• Unexpected encounter. Crime stories. Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2012.
• Murder after the final whistle. Detective novel. Lychatz-Verlag, Leipzig 2013.
• Angonoka. Detective novel. Lychatz-Verlag, Leipzig 2014.
• Dangerous glitter. Detective novel. Lychatz-Verlag, Leipzig 2015.
• Cover letters. Detective novel. Lychatz Verlag, Leipzig 2016.
• Black days. Detective novel. Lychatz Verlag, 2018.
• In the dungeon. Detective novel. Lychatz Verlag, Leipzig 2019.
• Separate ways. Detective novel. Lychatz Verlag, Leipzig 2020.

Youth books

• Departure in Shanghai: a novel about the new economic China. Munich 1995.
• Escape to the mountain. Munich 1997. New edition: Oberhausen 2005.
• Nori and the Big Rain: A novel about selling girls in Thailand. Munich 1998.
• Fouls and traps. Football crime novel. Gertraud-Middelhauve-Verlag, Munich 1999.
• Relay race: track and field thriller. Munster 2005.
• Tim and Anna drive in. Children's book. Aschendorff: Münster 2010.
• Rong's search for the lost script. Autumnus Verlag, Berlin 2014.

Children's books

• Brögers Urwald: bedside stories. Oberhausen 1986.
• The lost dream. Cologne 1988.
• Robert, the traffic maker. Cologne 1988.
• The sandpit rockers. Cologne 1990.
• Children's circus Travados. Bönen 1992.
• The man with the parrot. Berlin / Munich 1993.
• Rui and the panda. Munich 1996.
• The whale in the garage. Munich 1997.
• The most beautiful stories from the Bible. Wuerzburg 2001.
• The land of the Bible. Wuerzburg 2003.
• Tim and Anna drive in: children's book about mining. Munster 2010.
• Discover classical literature. Autumnus Verlag, Berlin 2017.
• Ship ahoy for Nina. Autumnus Verlag, Berlin 2017.

Dramas, scripts

• Natal. Drama (with Horst Hensel ). World premiere: Lünen 1991.
• The Bandelbarricade: Westphälisches Heimatstück (with Horst Hensel). Bauer-Verlag, Berlin 1994.
• Annette and George. Opera libretto (with Horst Hensel). Music: Matthias Bonitz . World premiere: Münster 1999.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Peuckmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Peuckmann in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcements from the Fritz Hüser Society 2019/2, p. 3.