Helmut Vorndran

Helmut Vorndran, 2009

Helmut Vorndran (born January 18, 1961 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale ) is a German cabaret artist and author .

Career

Vorndran learned the trade of carpenter , and then studied social pedagogy , but dropped out.

Vorndran's cabaret career began with Total Bamberger Cabaret , which he co-founded in 1984.

In addition, Vorndran works as an author for, among others, Antenne Bayern and Bavarian TV .

Since 1990 he has lived in an old mill on the Itz in Rattelsdorf near Bamberg.

In 2009, Emons Verlag published his first Frankish thriller Das Alabastergrab . This crime thriller takes place in and around Bamberg and at Banz Monastery , the seat of the CSU- related Hanns Seidel Foundation and sometimes the meeting place for the CSU leadership, located near Bad Staffelstein . In his foreword, Helmut Vorndran thanks his informants from the CSU. Over 10,000 copies of Alabaster Tombs were sold within nine months . The press described this as a record for a Franconian local crime thriller, as well as a debut novel. In 2012 Helmut Vorndran ended his activity as a cabaret artist and has been working exclusively as a writer since 2013.

In the meantime 6 detective novels and 1 volume with detective short stories have been published. The titles of the detective novels follow the alphabet. In the meantime the author has reached the letter "K" , in July 2018 detective novel number 8, "Die Kamuelsfeder", was published.

In 2016, his first historical novel, Isarnon: Stadt über dem Fluss , was published, the story of which is set a few decades before the birth of Christ in the world of the southern German Celts.

Books

• The alabaster tomb. Emons, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89705-642-8 .
• Blood fire. Emons, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-728-9 .
• Dead by Franconia. Emons, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-89705-895-8 .
• The Colibri Effect. Emons, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-89705-953-5 .
• Three oaks. Emons, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-95451-123-5 .
• The fifth glass. Emons, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-311-6 .
• Habakkuk. Emons, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-693-3 .
• Isarnon: city over the river . Emons, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-941-5 .
• The jade sauropside . Emons, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7408-0216-5 .
• The camel feather . Emons, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0398-8

• The lupine child. Emons, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3740806903

Web links

• Official homepage helmut-vorndran.de
• DNB 137464126

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Poetry encounter and Franconian crime thriller. Main Post, May 27, 2010, accessed May 29, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Coburg sausages with baked potatoes Neigschaud with cabaret artist Helmut Vorndran. br-online.de, archived from the original on June 25, 2009 ; Retrieved May 29, 2010 .  
3. ↑ Dieter Unolzen: FRANKEN-KRIMI debut novel by Helmut Vorndran has a real background. Neue Presse, February 13, 2009, accessed May 29, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Helmut Vorndran blood fire. (No longer available online.) Konzertagentur-friedrich.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 29, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.