Horst Bieber

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Horst Bieber (born January 12, 1942 in Essen ; † May 27, 2020 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and crime writer .

Live and act

Bieber studied history , philosophy and German at the Ruhr University in Bochum . There he was with a dissertation on the journalist Paul Rohrbach doctorate . He started as a journalist for the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1970 he switched to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , where he a. a. wrote about Franquism , the Carnation Revolution , Sandinism and Cuba under the regime of Fidel Castro . In 1990 he was promoted to chief of the service of time ; he held this position until his early retirement in 1997 due to a serious illness.

Horst Bieber first wrote historical non-fiction books, later he published his first crime novel Sackgasse (1982). In other novels he mainly took up social and political issues, for example data protection , the coexistence of the secret services or problems with police investigative work. His strengths were his gift for precise observation and his pronounced talent for storytelling.

In 1987, Bieber received the German Crime Prize for his work His last mistake . Horst Bieber died in Hamburg in May 2020 at the age of 78.

Works

Non-fiction

  • Paul Rohrbach, a conservative publicist and critic of the Weimar Republic. (= Dortmund contributions to newspaper research , vol. 16). De Gruyter, Berlin 1972. ISBN 978-3-7940-2516-9 .
  • Portugal. Fackelträger-Verlag, Hanover 1975. ISBN 978-3-7716-2089-9 .

Crime novels

E-books

  • 2014: bolt shots / lost security (kindle edition)
  • 2014: Nobody gets away with it that easily (kindle edition)
  • 2014: The Horst Bieber crime thriller package: five thrillers in one volume (kindle edition)
  • 2015: Our man for Vogelheim: A completely normal political intrigue (kindle - ISBN 978-3-7368-7287-7 )
  • 2015: I'd rather kill her (Cassiopeiapress Thriller / Edition Bärenklau / kindle eBook)
  • 2015: A candidate has to give way. (kindle, ISBN 978-3-7368-7984-3 )
  • 2015: A killer retires: Krimi (Cassiopeiapress Thriller / Edition Bärenklau / kindle eBook)
  • 2015: Alfred's Crime Package 1: Nine Novels (Cassiopeiapress Thriller Tension / UKsak E Books)
  • 2015: The third Horst Bieber crime pack: Seven crime novels (Cassiopeiapress Thriller, ISBN 978-3738900118 )
  • 2015: At the grave of my love: detective novel (Cassiopeiapress Thriller Spann / Edition Bärenklau / kindle)
  • 2015: To the good or bad end (Cassiopeiapress Krimi / Edition Bärenklau / kindle eBook)
  • 2015: The Commissioner gives up: Crime (kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3736829879 )
  • 2015: Vier Murderers: Vier Krimis (Cassiopeiapress Thriller anthology / kindle eBook)
  • 2015: Heirs not wanted: Crime (Cassiopeiapress / Edition Bärenklau / Kindle eBook)
  • 2015: Rhineland, Gebeinland: thrillers from the Rhine (Cassiopeiapress anthology / kindle)
  • 2015: Moosgrundmorde: Krimi (Cassiopeiapress Thriller / Edition Bärenklau / Kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3-7368-4268-7 )
  • 2015: ... eight, nine, out? (Cassiopeiapress Regio / Krimi / Edition Bärenklau / kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3-7368-1973-3 )
  • 2015: Only one hearing defect: Crime (Cassiopeiapress Thriller / Edition Bärenklau / kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3-7368-7884-6 )
  • 2015: Murder Begins in the Heart: Thriller (kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3-7368-0046-5 )
  • 2015: All men are gray at night: Crime (Cassiopeiapress / Edition Bärenklau / kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3-7368-7445-9 )
  • 2015: Two perpetrators - one victim: crime (Cassiopeiapress Spann / Edition Bärenklau / kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3-7368-7907-2 )
  • 2015: What remains is the crime: Crime (kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3-7368-4963-1 )
  • 2015: Lost Security: Detective Novel (Cassiopeiapress Original Edition / Edition Bärenklau / kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3-7309-9818-2 )
  • 2015: Boltshots: Thriller (kindle eBook, ISBN 978-3-7368-1427-1 )
  • 2015: Two thrillers: Nobody gets away with it easily / Murder begins in the heart (Cassiopeiapress Thriller Tension / kindle eBook)
  • 2015: Krimi Sommer 2015: 12 crime novels (Cassiopeiapress / kindle eBooks)
  • 2015: Murderer's Summer 2015: Eight thrillers (Cassiopeiapress Spann / kindle eBook)
  • 2015: Two thrillers: What remains, is the crime / ... eight, nine, over? (Two novels by the German detective award winner. ISBN 978-3-7368-4964-8 )
  • 2015: The big book of regional crime novels: novels and stories (kindle eBook)
  • 2015: The second Horst Bieber crime thriller package: Five thrillers (Cassiopeiapress Spann / kindle e-book)
  • 2015: A Criminal Quartet: Four Thrillers (Uksak E-Books / Amazon Media)

Audio books

  • 2001: WDR-Prime-Crime 3 cassettes: audio cassette (audio CD)
  • 2006: The Gray Hole , Radioropa (Audiobook Audio CD)

watch TV

Detective radio plays on the radio (mostly WDR )

  • 1986: the mistake
  • 1987: Age does not protect against sagacity
  • 1988: a murderous reputation
  • 1988: Found and Disappeared
  • 1991: Age does not protect against insight
  • 1993: And I fought back
  • 1996: Deadly Trust
  • 1997: Uncle's heirs
  • 1998: Cold-blooded
  • 2007: Election war , production: WDR, 48 min., Director: Christoph Pragua.

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. R. i. P. Horst Bieber. In: criminal files. Murder and manslaughter in books and films - and more. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  2. a b c d e f Matthias Naß : Obituary. Our polymath. Horst Bieber amazed the ZEIT editorial team with his extensive knowledge - he wrote »Tatorte« on the side. In: Die Zeit , No. 24, June 4, 2020, p. 20. Accessed June 11, 2020.
  3. Horst Bieber. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , pp. 71–72.
  4. ^ Election war by Horst Bieber , WDR October 26, 2016, accessed November 19, 2016