Horst Friedrichs (Author)
Horst Friedrichs (* 1943 in Hamburg ) is a German novelist author and translator.
Life
Friedrichs, who initially completed a commercial apprenticeship, worked for almost 20 years as a press photographer, journalist and editor for newspapers in Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony . In addition, he wrote under the pseudonym Ken Roycroft since 1967, mainly for the Bastei Verlag , booklet novels; since 1987 he has concentrated on the latter task.
Horst Friedrichs worked primarily as a writer for Jerry Cotton . For this series alone he wrote around 300 notebooks and 50 paperbacks. He has also written for many other crime, western and horror series, such as Fledermaus , Kommissar X , Ronco, Lobo, Seewolfe (as Burt Frederick ), Lassiter , espionage novel, ghost crime , ghost westerns, Professor Zamorra , Trucker-King, Jack Slade, Der Bundesbulle (a revised edition of Peter Hebel's series Peter Mattek, to which he contributed four new novels), Vampire, Western-Legenden, Chicago. Unfortunately, most of the works were only published under the publisher's pseudonym or entirely without naming the author.
He also worked as a translator, wrote novels for feature films (including The Crow ), television series and literature for young people.
His total oeuvre amounts to around 650 novels, which have sold millions of copies, and 50 translations.
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Friedrichs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Horst Friedrichs on the Bastei Verlag website
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedrichs, Horst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frederick, Burt (pseudonym); Roycroft, Ken (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German novelist author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |