Irene Rodrian

Irene Rodrian (born November 12, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German writer and screenwriter .

Life

At her father's request, Rodrian was supposed to learn a graphic designer . She was rejected by the Munich Academy of Art , so she worked in the advertising industry for over two years before she went freelance as a graphic designer and advertising consultant. At this time, she began to write, but could n't make a living from publishing her short stories and kept her head above water with jobs as a window dresser and saleswoman.

In 1967 she anonymously submitted two manuscripts for her application for the Edgar Wallace Prize from Goldmann Verlag : Death in St. Pauli and See you tomorrow, murderer and won first prize with Death in St. Pauli . She sent the rejected manuscript to Ledig-Rowohlt ( Rowohlt Verlag ), where a German crime scene was just beginning to establish itself with Hansjörg Martin , Friedhelm Werremeier and Michael Molsner . The publisher accepted. Irene Rodrian was the first German crime writer.

By 1992 she had published around 20 crime novels with Rowohlt - and later with Heyne. In addition, she wrote a number of screenplays for TV films and series such as Ein Fall für Zwei , Hamburg Transit , Onkel Bräsig and Tatort .

After a ten year hiatus, she got back with My brother's killer . The thriller was the start of a series about Llimona 5 , a detective agency with five strong women based in the Catalan capital of Barcelona.

In 2007, Irene Rodrian was awarded the "Ehrenglauser" of the Friedrich Glauser Prize by the group of authors Das Syndikat for her services to German crime literature .

Books

Detective novels

• 1967: Death in St. Pauli
• 1969: See you tomorrow, murderer
• 1970: Who walks barefoot over broken glass
• 1971: Finder's reward
• 1974: Kiss for the gravedigger
• 1975: The nice murderers from Schwabing
• 1975: A little hair dryer and you're dead
• 1976: Death has no heat
• 1977: You live on the Sugar Loaf for a while
• 1977: Dead Cat (Stories)
• 1978:… wears institutional clothing and is armed
• 1980: sleep, boy, sleep
• 1981: House peace
• 1982: Much love
• 1983: drop shadow
• 1984: The woman with the jaguar
• 1985: physical
• 1986: The girl with the angel face
• 1988: Over the cliffs
• 1988: With the curtains closed
• 1989: eat, bird, or die!
• 1992: Beach grave
• 2002: My brother's murderer
• 2003: Under the spell of the tiger
• 2005: last chapter
• 2006: Icy silence
• 2006: Voices under the roof
• 2007: one last smile

Books for children and young readers

• 1965: Great great detectives
• 1966: Thieves don't like the sun
• 1967: Good friends, great adventures
• 1968: The secret of the island fortress
• 1968: A motley journey or The Strange Adventures of Dorothea pepper jam
• 1969: The world in my hand
• 1971: The adventure with the pink seven
• 1971: one witness too many
• 1972: The man in the shadows
• 1974: The adventure with the pink 7
• 1975: Good luck, my child
• 1976: Stupid when the guy dies
• 1980: The unbelievable adventures with the smallest pirate on all seas and his greatest enemy, the fat captain
• 1981: My father is a superman
• 1981: pepper jam
• 1982: Fantastic adventures with the smallest pirate on all seas and his greatest enemy, the fat captain
• 1985: Fabulous adventures with the smallest pirate on all seas and his greatest enemy, the fat captain
• 1987: Kiss me, Knacki
• 1994: I want to be a Leo
• 1998: Deadly cool

Filmography (selection)

Literary template

• 2005: last chapter

script

• 1972–1973: The Melchiors
• 1977: Down Infinitely (with Pete Ariel )
• 1978: a case in point
• 1979: plaintiff and defendant
• 1979: Crime scene: midnight, or shortly after
• 1979: girlfriends (with Elke Heidenreich )
• 1981: Crime scene: The leather heart
• 1982: The defiant head
• 1996: Pepolino and the mermaid's treasure - based on her novel
• 1997: Sophie - smarter than the police

Web links

• Literature by and about Irene Rodrian in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Irene Rodrian