Horst Bosetzky

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Horst Bosetzky (2011)

Horst Otto Oskar Bosetzky (as a pseudonym also -ky ; born February 1, 1938 in Berlin ; † September 16, 2018 there ) was a German sociologist and writer . He became known to a wider public primarily through his crime novels .

Education, career as a sociologist

Between 1946 and 1951, Bosetzky attended the elementary school in Berlin-Neukölln that is now known as the Rütli School . After completing his industrial clerk apprenticeship at Siemens , he studied economics and business administration , sociology and psychology at the Free University of Berlin between 1963 and 1968 . To finance his studies, he wrote some crime stories for magazine series . In 1964 he joined the SPD . In 1969 he received his doctorate in sociology (subject: Basics of a sociology of industrial administration - possibilities and limits of viewing large industrial companies as a bureaucratic organization ), was Renate Mayntz's assistant and did research on the sociology of administration and organization .

From 1973 to 2000, Bosetzky was Professor of Sociology at the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice of the City of Berlin. In organizational theory, he is one of the main representatives of the micropolitics approach . This approach particularly emphasizes the role of power in the organization. He shaped organizational research in particular by summarizing micro-political processes in the organization in concise terms such as the comradely bureaucracy , the Don Corleone principle or the Prince von Homburg effect .

Literary work

Bosetzky's literary focus was crime novels as well as historical novels with references to his hometown Berlin and his own biography. He occasionally used the fictional northern German town of Bramme as a petty-bourgeois-dominant row house environment, in which he often let some of his protagonists perform. Bosetzky explained: “I wanted to have a career with Hans Koschnick on the staff and therefore not burden the city. That's why I invented the place Bramme, which has the social reality of Bremen . ”Many other works followed in parallel to his career at a university of applied sciences.

In 1971 Bosetzky presented his first detective novel. Already there he used the pseudonym "-ky", as for the others, out of consideration for his professional position at a university. As "-ky" he let Oberkommissar Mannhardt take on the role of investigator in some of his crime novels . Even if under a pseudonym, but not denying the sociologist , his first crime novels in particular are committed to the zeitgeist of the 1970s and formulate social criticism in “left” jargon . Horst Bosetzky, along with Hansjörg Martin , Richard Hey and Michael Molsner, set the style for the so-called socio-crime novels , which in that decade stand out from other crime fiction as the new German crime novels and, in addition to pure entertainment, also the special social backgrounds of the people involved as well as general ones Tried to shed light on aspects of the overall social situation and their effects.

Filmed were his detective novels , one of us (1972, directed by Wolfgang Petersen et al with the actors.. Jurgen Prochnow and Klaus Schwarzkopf ) and No townhouse for Robin Hood (1979), which also with the prize for the best German-language crime novel and in France with the Prix ​​Mystère de la critique was awarded. Bosetzky used its film premiere in 1981 to reveal the pseudonym "-ky" after years of speculation. In 1984 Fire for the Big Dragon (1982) was filmed for television with Peter Sattmann , Ulrike Luderer and Erdal Merdan , and in 1986 the detective novel Die Klette , which he wrote together with co-author Peter Heinrich .

In the 1970s he also wrote radio plays and in the 1980s screenplays for television, including for series such as Detective Office Roth , SOKO 5113 and Ein Fall für zwei , but also television games such as Die Klette and Happy End durch Drei , also short stories for the annual crime fiction volumes of the Blue Series published by Heyne Verlag .

Another literary focus arose from his ties to Berlin. In 1995 he started a multi-volume family saga with the novel Firewood for Potato Peelings, in which the author's autobiographical elements are combined with general contemporary history. Bosetzky also contributed several volumes to the chain novel, set in Berlin in the early 20th century, with the main character Kriminalkommissar CAP. His Berlin (be) knowledge can be found in addition to stories about the Berlin road and commuter trains as well as the reference book The Berlin-lexicon.

Horst Bosetzky's gravestone in the Stubenrauchstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau

Bosetzky's memories of his childhood in Berlin in the post-war years: -ky's Berlin youth - memories in words and pictures , in collaboration with photographer Rengha Rodewill , were published in 2014. In 2017, an eight-part video interview about his memories of childhood and youth was published in the Berliner Kindheiten series , and in 2018 the 20-minute portrait film Bosetzky (director: Kristof Kannegießer).

Horst Bosetzky was buried on October 18, 2018 in the Schöneberg III cemetery in Berlin's Tempelhof-Schöneberg district . His grave is on field 17/13.

Offices and functions

From 1991 to 2001 Bosetzky was chairman and spokesman for the Syndikats , the association of German-speaking crime authors. In 2002 he was also one of the founding members of the nationwide group of authors of the Historical Roman Quo Vadis , whose first general assembly was held in November 2002 in Kulmbach. He was a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) and from May 2000 to June 2014 Chairman of the State Association VS Berlin .

bibliography

Novels

  • From the dream. 1983.
  • Go back over there. 1986.
  • I think a mold will kick me. 1986.
  • The white horse rides you. 1987.
  • The last Ascanian. 1997.
  • Edge crumbs cracker. 2004.
  • The seven heads . Joint novel by 12 authors. 2004.
  • The duel of Mr. Silberstein. 2005.
  • The love test. 2006.
  • Rumba balotte. 2010.
  • The King of Tierra del Fuego. August Borsig's rise in Berlin. 2011.
  • Zille scandal. 2013.
  • Gymnastics father Jahn. A biographical novel. 2014.

Family saga

This family legend, which is not published in chronological order, spans the period from 1717 to 2005.

  • Firewood for potato peels. (Period: 1946–1952) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 1995.
  • Capri and potato pancakes. (Period: 1952–1957) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 1997.
  • Champagne and potato chips. (Period: 1957–1970) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 1998.
  • Tamsel. (Period: 1717–1817) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 1999.
Paperback title: On horseback . dtv , Munich 2001.
  • Crushed Potatoes and Career. (Period: 1970–1981) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • Between the boat and the coal cellar. (Period: 1920–1947) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2001.
  • Between barricade and bread soup. (Period: 1844–1918) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003.
  • Kisses on the potato fire. (Period: 1981–2000) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2004.
  • The best years between Wedding and Neukölln. (Period: 1952–2003) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2006.
  • Fried potatoes or The ways of the Lord. (Period: 2003–2005) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2008.
  • But it was nice ... (Period: 1934–2005, the story of Inge Bugsin) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • Potato Soup or The Carousel of Life. (last part of the family saga) Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2012.

Detective novels

  • It takes two to murder. 1971.
  • One of the two of us. 1972. (1974: made into a film )
  • We ask you to refrain from making condolences. 1972.
  • Do not disturb the fine people. 1973.
  • A dead person directs. 1974.
  • It is enough if only one person dies. 1975.
  • It would have been someone. 1978.
  • Not a row house for Robin Hood. 1979. (1980: made into a film )
  • Fire for the great dragon . 1982.
  • The burdock. Together with Peter Heinrich . 1983.
  • Frederick the Great saves Commissioner Mannhardt. 1985.
  • Elderly couple chasing Oberregierungsrat K. 1987.
  • I am laying roses on my grave. 1988.
  • The only thing that helps is praying. 1988.
  • Don't look, don't look Together with Steffen Mohr. 1989.
  • Nieswand knows day and hour. 1990.
  • I wish it was night 1991.
  • From above. 1992.
  • One deal too many. 1992.
  • With death on you and you. 1992.
  • The demon wants blood. 1993.
  • Fendt is listening. 1994.
  • The roast of Satan. 1994.
  • Incredible for all of us. 1995.
  • Like an animal - the S-Bahn killer. Documentary novel about the serial killer Paul Ogorzow . 1995.
  • A man for the rough. 1996.
  • Somebody has to do it. 1998.
  • All of my killers. 2001.
  • Spreekiller. 2002.
  • The banker's double. 2002
  • The cold angel. 2002.
  • The bomb goes off in Bramme. 2004.
  • The beast from the Silesian train station. 2004.
  • Wandering is the murderer's pleasure. 2004.
  • Lecturer's blood flows into Bramme. 2006.
  • Cap and the charred corpse. 2007. Cap 1.
  • After Verdun. Together with Jan Eik . 2008. Cap 4.
  • The lust killer. 2008. Cap 6.
  • Nothing is barred. 2008.
  • Under the cherry tree. 2009.
  • Book madness. 2010. cap 10.
  • The day Walter Ulbricht died. Together with Jan Eik . 2010.
  • Celebrity hunt. 2010.
  • With zeal. 2011. cap 14.
  • Death in the Thiergarten. 2011.
  • Under the guillotine. 2012. Cap 18.
  • Raid. 2012. cap 20.
  • The case of the poet. 2012.
  • The black widower. 2012.
  • Mamselle murder in Friedrichstadt. 2012.
  • Berlin inquest. 2013 (with Gunther Geserick )
  • Desertion. 2013.
  • Eye to eye. 2014. cap 23.
  • Widow burning . 2015
  • Bunkered. 2016
  • Berlin felt. 2016. cap 27.
  • On quiet feet. 2017. cap 28.
  • Devil's Lake. 2017
  • The Sass brothers - beloved crooks. 2017
  • The end of the bill will be settled. 2018
  • Himself is the murderer. 2018
  • In the delusion of the Lord . 2019 (posthumous publication)

Short prose volumes

Berlin public transport and other things

  • Berlin railways. 2000.
  • Please get in, close the doors - S-Bahn memories. 2001.
  • Tegel, stay back, please. Together with Uwe Poppel. 2001.
  • Anyone else without a ticket? Together with Alfred B. Gottwaldt. 2001.
  • Better sport than murder. 2002.
  • Have you heard? - Berlin oddities and memorabilia. Together with Jan Eik. 2005.
  • West Berlin: Memories of an Island Child. 2006.
  • The assassination. Novel about the construction of the first Berlin subway. 2008.
  • Enjoyable in tax, train and bus. 2016

Crime stories

  • Sometimes murderous. 1976.
  • Of murderers and other people. 1978.
  • With one leg in jail. 1981.
  • Catzoa. 1990.
  • Wandering is the murderer's pleasure. 2004.
  • Mannhardt's puzzling cases. 2005.

Children's and young people's literature

  • Are you really called Hasan Schmidt? Youth novel, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-499-20360-X .
    • Are you really called Hasan Schmidt? A musical, 1991.
  • Otherwise it's over with you! Children's thriller, Patmos, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-491-37288-7 .

Editorships (anthologies)

  • Berlin ten-minute stories. 2003.
  • Berlin as it laughs and blasphemers - New Berlin ten-minute stories. 2005.
  • Heart and pain - Berlin ten-minute stories. 2006.
  • Ran an'n coffin and with everyone. Eight minute stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag , Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-359-02276-3 .
  • The weirdest ten-minute stories in Berlin. 2013. ISBN 978-3-89773-726-6

Non-fiction

  • Murder and manslaughter at Fontane. Jaron, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932202-28-7 .
  • The Berlin Lexicon. What you really need to know about the capital: from Allex to Zimtzicke. Together with Jan Eik. Jaron, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932202-57-0 .
  • -ky's Berliner Jugend - memories in words and pictures. Autobiography. Together with Rengha Rodewill . Past Publishing, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-86408-173-6

scientific publications

Reference books

  • Basics of a sociology of industrial administration. Dissertation FU Berlin . Enke, Stuttgart 1970.
  • People and organization, aspects of bureaucratic socialization. A practice-oriented introduction to the sociology and social psychology of administration. Together with Peter Heinrich and Jochen Schulz zur Wiesch. German Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 2002 (6th edition)

Technical article

Co-author and editor

  • Organizational system and administrative reform project group: Organizational-sociological investigation of the Bremen administration. Senate Chancellery of the FHSB, Bremen 1972.
  • Sociology. An introduction to the public sector. Add. with Klaus-Dieter Fischer and Hans-J. Deep lake. Herford: Maximilian 1975.
  • The "Regional Social Service" (RSD) Kreuzberg - An example of modernity in public administration. Add. with Peter Heinrich (Ed.). (Publications Vol. 77) Berlin: FHSVR 1992.

Sole author

  • Bureaucratic forms of organization in authorities and industrial administrations. In: Renate Mayntz (ed.), Bureaucratic Organization, Cologne / Berlin: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1968, 179–188.
  • The “comradely bureaucracy” and the limits of the scientific investigation of authorities , in: Die Verwaltung, 4th year 1971, 325–335.
  • The instrumental function of the transport , in: Verwaltungsarchiv, 63. Jg. 1972, 372–384.
  • About the extent of alienation in public administration. Public administration, 26th year 1973, 302–309.
  • Internal power distribution and chances of organizational change , in: Zeitschrift für Organization, 1973, 219–227.
  • The Don Corleone principle in public administration , in: Baden-Württembergische Verwaltungspraxis, 1st year 1974, 50–53.
  • The suppression of bureaucratic elements as an organizational necessity. Administration 7th year 1974, 23–37.
  • "Dark Factors" in Public Service Promotion. The administration 1974, 7, 427-438.
  • To generate intrinsic complexity in large organizations , in: Zeitschrift für Organization 1976, 279–285.
  • Machiavellianism, accumulation of power and micropolitics , in: Zeitschrift für Organization 1977, 121–125.
  • Bureaucratisation in business and companies. In: Heiner Geißler (Ed.), Managed Citizens - Society in Shackles. Frankfurt / M .: Ullstein 1978, 55-71.
  • Self-image and reputation of the public service. In: Eberhard Laux (Ed.), The Dilemma of the Public Service. Bonn: Dt. Section of the International Institute for Administrative Science 1978, 105–127.
  • Innovative bureaucracy. Public administration, 32nd year 1979, 194–201.
  • Bureaucracy. In: E. Grochla (Hrsg.), Hand dictionary of the organization. Stuttgart: Poeschel 1980, Col. 386-392.
  • Forms of bureaucratic Organization in public and industrial administration - Trends in the Federal Republic of Germany , in: Social Science Information, vol. 19: 107-137 (1980).
  • Power and the possible reactions of those subject to power. In: G. Reber (Ed.), Power in Organizations. Stuttgart: Poeschel 1980.
  • Organizational climate. In: H. Strutz (Hrsg.), Hand dictionary of administration and organization. Cologne: Deutscher Gemeindeverlag; Kohlhammer 1982, 347-352.
  • System-immanent limits of systematic management. In: A. Remer (Ed.), Verwaltungsführung. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter 1982, 219–230.
  • Leadership in bureaucracy. In: A. Kieser, G. Reber, R. Wunderer (Eds.), Concise Dictionary of Leadership. Stuttgart: Poeschel 1987, 128-136.
  • Micropolitics, Machiavellianism and the accumulation of power. In: W. Küpper u. G. Ortmann (Ed.), Micropolitics. Opladen: Westdt. Verlag 1988, 27-37.
  • Management role: micropoliticians. In: WH Staehle (Ed.), Handbuch Management. The 24 roles of leadership. Wiesbaden: Gabler 1991, 286-300.
  • Order is half of life - and the other half? About the desire to disrupt order and the boycott strategies of disinterested organization members. In: Verwaltungsführung - Organization - Personal, 13th year (1991), 271–275.
  • Resistance to integration efforts. Organizational development (special 1: Integration - models of integration in economy, state, society). Zurich 1992.
  • Bureaucratic socialization in the lines of changing values. In: HU Derlien et al. (Ed.), System Rationality and Partial Interest. Festschrift for Renate Mayntz on his 65th birthday. Baden-Baden: Nomos 1994, 99-122.
  • "What is not, can never become" - On the possibilities and limits of changing administrative systems (organizational development, special 2, change strategies in the non-profit sector). Basel 1994.
  • Leadership in bureaucracy. In: A. Kieser, G. Reber, R. Wundere: Short dictionary of leadership. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, 1995, pp. 182-192.
  • Micropolitics and Leadership. In this. (Ed.): Concise dictionary of leadership. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, 1995, pp. 1517-1526.

Awards

literature

  • Author portrait in Rudi Kost : Deadly relationships. Diana Verlag, Zurich 1984.
  • Peter Heinrich and Jochen Schulz to Wiesch (Hrsg.): Dictionary of micropolitics. A commemorative publication for Horst Bosetzky. Leske & Budrich, Leverkusen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2013-3 .
  • Peter Hüne (Ed.): Between Bramme and Berlin - (Horst Bosetz) -ky for his 60th birthday. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Career as -ky: crime writer Horst Bosetzky died. In: Welt Online . September 17, 2018. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Hendrik Werner: Crime scene Bramme . In: Weser-Kurier of February 1, 2018, p. 23.
  3. ↑ Facetten-Magazin Neukölln from March 10, 2015
  4. ^ Johannes Zillhardt: Horst Bosetzky. In: Berlin Childhoods. October 16, 2017, accessed on September 17, 2018 (8 video interviews, 1–3 minutes each).
  5. ↑ Kristof Kannegießer (director): Bosetzky. Short film on YouTube , February 1, 2018, accessed on September 17, 2018 (7:55 minutes).
  6. ↑ Horst Bosetzky on Kulturigo Online-Zeitung, accessed on October 24, 2018.
  7. ^ The grave of Horst Bosetzky. In: knerger.de. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Foundation. Quo Vadis - historical novel authors' circle, archived from the original on January 15, 2012 ; accessed on July 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ biography. In: horstbosetzky.de. September 2, 2006, accessed September 14, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President issued on October 26, 2004
  11. ^ Humboldt Medal for Horst Bosetzky In: Berliner Woche from February 18, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bosetzky, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosetzky, Horst Otto Oskar; -ky (pseudonym); John Drake (pseudonym); John Taylor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 16th September 2018
Place of death Berlin