Henner Kotte

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Henner Kotte (* 1963 in Wolgast ) is a German author, editor, presenter, director, theater critic and city guide. He is best known for his crime novels set in Leipzig .

Career

The classmate of the actor and cabaret artist Uwe Steimle , who grew up in Dresden , studied German in Leipzig, Dresden, Moscow and Stuttgart from 1984 to 1989 and then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim . After working as a lecturer for German as a foreign language at the Köthen University of Applied Sciences , Henner Kotte had to spend some time as an unemployed person and as an employee in Leipzig job creation schemes before he was able to complete further training in journalism in 1996.

His writing career began with the publication of the short story "Taxi" , for which he received the 1997 MDR Literature Prize.

Henner Kotte now works as a culture editor for the city magazine BLITZ. Since 2001 he has hosted his own literary talk show on crime and horror at the Moritzbastei in Leipzig - the "Black Series" . In addition, the author, who has lived in Leipzig since 1984, offers city tours on the criminal history of his adopted home. Since June 2010 he has been moderating the reading stage for texts at the counter in the StuK . Both the crime thriller tour and the reading stage are an invention or creation of the FHL eV

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Leipzig crime novels

Lars Kohlund series

Bruno Ehrlicher series

  • "Doppelherz Tod - Commissioner Ehrlicher continues to investigate" , Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-360-01948-6
  • "Frederikes Höllenfahrt - Ehrlicher further investigates" , Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-360-01963-9

Other publications (selection)

  • Taxi , 1997
  • Of course dead! One year book. Five Finger Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-9807419-1-5 .
  • Murderers, monsters, cannibals. together with Christian Lunzer, Ueberreuther 2001, ISBN 3-8000-3922-2 .
  • Vivace. Five Finger Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-9807419-6-6 .
  • Poacher - True crime stories from the forest. together with Christian Lunzer, Ueberreuther 2005, ISBN 3-8000-7092-8 .
  • Forgotten files - unsolved criminal cases. Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
  • Careful, author! - Texts from the counter. fhl-Verlag, Leipzig, 2008.
  • Of course dead! Crime stories. Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86789-121-9 .
  • The teeth of the black Gruhl. , Lychatz Verlag, Leipzig, 2010, ISBN 978-3-98133-856-0 .
  • Detective Frodi , Lychatz Verlag, Leipzig, 2010, children's book, ISBN 978-3-98133-855-3 .
  • The walled-up woman. Authentic criminal cases from Leipzig , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, 2012, 2nd edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-89812-966-4
  • High murders. Historical criminal cases from Tyrol , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, 2014. ISBN 978-3-95462-336-5 .
  • The 99 special sides of the city - Chemnitz. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018. ISBN 978-3-95462-945-9 .

Prizes and awards (selection)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Lars Kohlund is only a minor character in this novel, the main protagonist of this crime thriller is its chief criminal director Konstantin Miersch.
  2. ↑ In 2009 the publishing house Das Neue Berlin also published “The beautiful Kyrgyz woman - Ehrlicher continues to determine” by the author JC Sternkopf (* 1964 in Leipzig), ISBN 978-3-360-01978-3
personal data
SURNAME Kotte, Henner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolgast