Heinrich Steinfest

Heinrich Steinfest at the Hausacher Leselenz 2013

Heinrich Steinfest (born April 10, 1961 in Albury , Australia ) is an Austrian writer and visual artist .

biography

The Austrian Heinrich Steinfest was born in Australia, but grew up in Vienna . He lived there as a freelance artist until the end of the 1990s. Today he lives as a painter and writer mainly in Stuttgart . Steinfest is married and has one son. He is also active as a runner.

In the mid-1990s, he published his first literary works, mainly surreal and science fiction stories. In 1996 his first detective novel The One Man Plot followed . In addition to novels and contributions to anthologies, he occasionally writes mostly essayistic articles for newspapers (e.g. in the Stuttgarter Zeitung and the context: weekly newspaper , including the Stuttgarturen ) and in magazines such as Motorrad , Merian Stuttgart (2008) and in the l iteraturb l att .

He is one of the most prominent and exposed opponents of Stuttgart 21 and was represented at many demonstrations with speeches.

He dedicated his novel Der Allesforscher to his brother Michael Steinfest, who had a fatal mountaineering accident at the age of 23 .

Awards

Heinrich Steinfest received the Bavarian Book Prize 2016 in the fiction category for "The life and death of airplanes".

1999 6th Würth Literature Prize , together with Marcus Hammerschmitt and Irmgard Hierdeis, for the short story Walking, Shooting, Lying
2000 scholarship (literature) from the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg
2004 German Crime Prize (3rd place) for a stubborn dog
2006 German Crime Prize (2nd place) for The Extent of Hell
2006 Best crime novel of 2005 (7th place) in the KrimiWelt best list for The Extent of Hell
2008 German Crime Prize (2nd place) for Lilli Steinbeck's fine nose and in May “Audiobook of the Month”, an award from the seminar for general rhetoric at the University of Tübingen
2008 Best crime novel of 2007 (5th place) in the KrimiWelt best list for Lilli Steinbeck's fine nose
2009 German Crime Prize (3rd place) for Mariaschwarz
2009 Best crime novel of 2008 (3rd place) in the KrimiWelt best list for Mariaschwarz
2010 Stuttgart crime prize for thunderstorms over Pluto
2010 Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize
2014 shortlist for the German Book Prize with Der Allesforscher
2016 Bavarian Book Prize for Life and Dying of Airplanes (Piper Verlag)
2019 Shortlist Leo Perutz Prize for The Sleepless Cheng

Works

Detective novels

Markus Cheng series

Cheng: pitch-black novel about a Viennese Chinese. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999, ISBN 3-404-12962-8 .
- Revised new edition: Cheng: a pitch-black novel. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2000, ISBN 3-404-14453-8 .
- Revised new edition: Cheng: His First Case. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-24874-7 . Steinfest describes the re-edition as a "renovated version", he has swapped words and phrases that now seem more appropriate to him.
A stubborn dog. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-492-23832-7 .
A thick skin. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-492-27117-0 ; Paperback: Piper, Munich / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-27117-2 .
Batman's Beauty: Cheng's Last Fall. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25764-0 .
The sleepless Cheng: His new case , Piper, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-06148-3 .

More crime novels

The one-man plot Aarachne, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85255-018-1 .
The afternoon of the pornographer Aarachne, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85255-025-4 .
To (r) tengräber Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2000, ISBN 3-404-14368-X .
- New edition: Torte Graves: A Raven Black Roman Piper, Munich / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-24894-5 .
The man who crossed the flight of the ball Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, ISBN 3-404-14507-0 .
Nervous fish Piper, Munich / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24280-4 .
The extent of Hell Piper, Munich / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-492-27092-1 .
The fine nose of Lilli Steinbeck Piper, Munich / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-27137-0 .
Mariaschwarz Piper, Munich / Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-05180-4 .
Thunderstorm over Pluto Piper, Munich / Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05310-5 .
Where the lions cry (crime novel zu Stuttgart 21 ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2423-8 .
The shark swimmer Piper, Munich / Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-05407-2 .
The life and death of the aircraft Piper, Munich / Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-492-05662-5 .
The ironer Piper, Munich / Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-05663-2 .
The Chauffeur , Piper, Munich / Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-492-05867-4 .

Other books

Brunswik's solution: from angels, night watchmen and other mortals. Narrative. edition sisyphos, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-928637-13-4 .
Instructions for use for Austria. Non-fiction. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-27568-2 .
Marginal drawings. Byways of writing. (= Marbacher Magazin 129). German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 2010, ISBN 978-3-937384-64-1 .
The heavenly child. Novel. Droemer, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-19960-2 .
The all-researcher. Novel. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-492-05408-9 .
The sinking of the Nibelung. With a storyboard by Robert de Rijn. Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-010949-6 .
The green blind. Novel. Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05661-8 .
Instructions for use for failure. Counselor. Piper Paperback October 1, 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-27733-4 .

Audiobooks (excerpt)

A thick skin. Audiobook Hamburg , abridged, 6 CDs 462 min., Read by Dietmar Mues , 2007, ISBN 978-3-89903-419-6 .
Lili Steinbeck's fine nose. Osterwold Audio at Audiobook Hamburg , 4 CDs 318 min., Read by Dietmar Mues , 2008, ISBN 978-3-89903-605-3 .
Thunderstorm over Pluto. OSTERWOLD audio at Audiobook Hamburg , abridged, 6 CDs 465 min., Read by Dietmar Mues . 2009, ISBN 978-3-86952-004-9 .
Batman's beauty. OSTERWOLD audio at Audiobook Hamburg , abridged, 4 CDs 319 min., Read by Dietmar Mues , 2010, ISBN 978-3-86952-057-5 .
The shark swimmer OSTERWOLD audio on Audiobook Hamburg , abridged, 4 CDs 292 min., Read by Markus Boysen , 2011, ISBN 978-3-86952-211-1 .
Where the lions cry Theiss Audio Stuttgart, 8 CDs 570 min., Read by Heinrich Steinfest, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8062-2429-0 .
The all-researcher. OSTERWOLD audio at Audiobook Hamburg , abridged, 6 CDs 478 min., Read by Markus Boysen , 2014, ISBN 978-3-86952-211-1 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Steinfest - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Heinrich Steinfest in the catalog of the German National Library
Interview with Heinrich Steinfest conducted by Alfred Ohswald (2004)
Audio sample: The fine nose of Lilli Steinbeck on Literaturport.de
Essays in l iteraturb l att include: whistle and Pfeiffer (2003) and "Meow!" - some remarks about the cat as a minor character in the film (2006).
Richard Kämmerling's discussion of thunderstorms over Pluto , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Literatur, November 27, 2009

Discussion by Rudolf Kraus on Batman's Beauty Crime Forum

Individual evidence

↑ Best-selling author Steinfest: "Life is incredibly fragile". Retrieved April 17, 2018 .
↑ The researcher of everything. Munich 2014, p. 398.
↑ Leo Perutz Prize for Crime Literature 2019: Five times high voltage. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
^ Heinrich Steinfest: Cheng. His first case. Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-24874-7 , pp. 264 .

personal data
SURNAME	Steinfest, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Albury , Australia

[1] Best-selling author Steinfest: "Life is incredibly fragile". Retrieved April 17, 2018 .

[2] The researcher of everything. Munich 2014, p. 398.

[3] Leo Perutz Prize for Crime Literature 2019: Five times high voltage. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .

[4] Heinrich Steinfest: Cheng. His first case. Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-24874-7 , pp. 264 .