Horst Eckert (Author)

Horst Eckert

Horst Eckert (born May 7, 1959 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ) is a German author of crime novels.

Life

Eckert studied political science in Erlangen and Berlin . He worked as a television journalist in Cologne and Düsseldorf for the WDR, VOX and RTL-Nachtjournal, among others. In 1995 his first detective novel, Anna's legacy, was published . Today Eckert lives as a freelance writer in Düsseldorf , where most of his crime novels are set. He is considered "the most important representative of the hardened crime novel in Germany" (Ulrich Noller, WDR). His novels have been published by Grafit Verlag , and since 2013 by Wunderlich Verlag , which belongs to Rowohlt . "Deutschlandfunk" describes them as "a complex police thriller in the best sense of the word, which can be read not only as an exciting crime story, but also as a commentary on the time".

For Aufgeputscht he received the Marlowe Prize in 1998 , for Die Zwillingsfalle 2001 the Friedrich Glauser Prize of the “authors' group of German-language crime literature” - The Syndicate , to which he was nominated several times, and for Black Swan the audience award Krimi-Blitz. Some of his novels have been translated into French, Dutch and Czech. The Westfalenpost described his novel Sprengkraft as “a furiously composed piece of contemporary literature”. Eckert was awarded the Herzogenrath Handcuff for the thriller Wolfsspinne in 2017 .

Horst Eckert is u. a. Member of the "Syndikat" and the PEN Center Germany .

Works

Novels

• Annas Erbe , Grafit, Dortmund 1995, ISBN s978-3-89425-053-9.
• Bitter delicacies , Grafit, Dortmund 1996, ISBN 978-3-89425-059-1 .
• Aufgeputscht , Grafit, Dortmund 1997, ISBN 978-3-89425-078-2 (Netherlands: De Laatste Les , De Rode Kamer 2010).
• Finstere Seelen , Grafit, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 978-3-89425-218-2 .
• Die Zwillingsfalle , Grafit, Dortmund 2000, ISBN 978-3-89425-238-0 (France: Coups Doubles , Editions Gallimard 2003, Netherlands: De Fatale Tweeling , De Rode Kamer 2008).
• Counted , Grafit, Dortmund 2002, ISBN 978-3-89425-265-6 .
• Purpurland , Grafit, Dortmund 2003, ISBN 978-3-89425-284-7 .
• 617 degrees Celsius , graphite, Dortmund 2005, ISBN 978-3-89425-297-7 .
• Der Absprung , Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89401-497-1 (France: Le Grand Saut , Ours Polar 2007).
• Königsallee , Grafit, Dortmund 2007, ISBN 978-3-89425-654-8 .
• Sprengkraft , Grafit, Dortmund 2009, ISBN 978-3-89425-660-9 .
• Schwarzer Schwan , Grafit, Dortmund 2011, ISBN 978-3-89425-667-8 .
• Schwarzlicht , Wunderlich, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8052-5057-3 .
• Shadow boxer , Wunderlich, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8052-5079-5 .
• Wolf spider , Wunderlich, Reinbek near Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8052-5099-3 .
• The price of death , Wunderlich, Reinbek near Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8052-0012-7 .
• In the name of the lie , Heyne, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-453-43966-5 .

Short stories (selection)

• Juwelen am Hellweg in: Mehr Morde am Hellweg , Grafit 2004 (nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2005)
• Paths to fame in: Blutgrätsche , Grafit 2006 (nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2007)

literature

• Bernhard M. Baron , Horst Eckert - the crime writer from the Upper Palatinate , in: Oberpfälzer Heimatspiegel 2015 , ed. by district home nurse Dr. Tobias Appl, Pressath 2014, pp. 47-51, ISBN 978-3-939247-53-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Eckert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Horst Eckert at perlentaucher.de
• Homepage of Horst Eckert
• Horst Eckert in the literature portal Bavaria

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roman: When murderous hatred arises . On the WAZ online site .
2. ↑ Herzogenrather Handschelle 2017 for Horst Eckert , buchmarkt.de, November 25, 2017, accessed on November 25, 2017