Heinz-Peter Baecker

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Heinz-Peter Baecker (born September 12, 1945 in Trier ; † February 5, 2015 ) in Pfalzfeld , also known as Harry P. Jost , was a German photographer (Kiel University of Applied Sciences), cameraman , journalist , screenwriter , and director since 1997 Writer .

Life

Baecker did his photography apprenticeship (in the same training company and at the same time as the later Stern photo reporter, Harald Schmitt ) in his home town of Trier and then came to the Kölnische Rundschau as a photographer . There he did an internship as a repro photographer and began a traineeship as a journalist. Then Hans-Dietrich Genscher brought him to the Federal Press Office in Bonn, where he set up a press office and freelance photographer from 1970 to 1973. He then moved to Munich as editor-in-chief in order to set up his own PR agency and TV production in 1980. In the PR area, his customers included McDonald’s , Boehringer Mannheim and the Confectionery Association . In the TV area he worked for BR , ZDF , RTL and SWR . He worked as a screenwriter, as a cameraman and director. In 1989, Baecker received an order from the postal ministries of Germany, Belgium and Austria to design a “500 Years of Post” concept , which he and his future wife Barbara realized in 1990. He received a similar contract from Deutsche Telekom in 1992 with the title “500 Years of America”.

Since 1995 Baecker lived in the Hunsrück and only worked as a journalist and screenwriter and book author. The first hand experience of the death of Lady Diana in 1998 marked the beginning of his career as a crime writer. His specialty was ' faction prose '. He is referred to by the media as “Germany's number 1 faction thriller author”. He was a member of the German Association of Journalists , until 2006 a member of Das Syndikat (association of German-speaking crime authors) and co-organizer of the ' Criminale 2006 ' in Koblenz. From 2001 to mid-2012 he was press spokesman for the publishers of Verlags-Karree e. V. in Mainz .

Baecker was a great-nephew of the journalist Werner Baecker ; Sibylle Baecker , a cousin by marriage , is also a crime novelist.

Baecker's faction thriller books are published by contrast publishing, which is owned by his wife Barbara Jost. The thrillers appear at Pandion, Simmern, or Gmeiner .

Awards

In 2001 he received the Moddersproch Prize from the city of Koblenz .

Works

Novels
  • Tibidabo - I give you all of this. 2011.
Faction literature
Detective novels
Satires
  • Black accounts, red heads, golden silence. 2001, ISBN 3-935286-04-X . (Satire on the Kohl affair)
  • Today I'm attacking Linda. 2002, ISBN 3-935286-21-X . (Satire about a "super woman" à la Hera Lind)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry P. Jost is dead. In: Börsenblatt . February 9, 2015 (accessed February 10, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Baecker, Heinz-Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jost, Harry P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Trier , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2015
Place of death Pfalzfeld