Jörg Juretzka

Jörg Juretzka (* 1955 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German writer .

Juretzka is a trained carpenter and built a. a. Log cabins in Canada and only began writing in 1990. Today, in addition to his writing, he works on the construction site or installs car washes.

The main character of his previously published novels is the idiosyncratic private detective Kristof Kryszinski , whose cases initially only took place in Juretzka's homeland, the Ruhr area . To provide variety, however, the author also let his protagonist work in the Swiss Alps , in Spain , on a cruise ship and in the Wild West . The humorous dialogues and the laconically precise style of Juretzka, which many critics praised and which often led to comparisons with Kinky Friedman , were preserved.

Since 2003 Juretzka also works as a screenwriter, u. a. for ProSieben - series What does not fit is made to fit , inspired by the eponymous film by Peter Thorwarth .

Jörg Juretzka lives in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Kristof Kryszinski series

1. 1998 Prickel ISBN 3-434-54042-3
2. 2000 Sense ISBN 3-434-54041-5
3. 2001 The Willy is gone ISBN 3-434-54053-9
4. 2001 Enzi @ n - A detective novel in 54 e-mails (with Roger M. Fiedler ) ISBN 3-8311-1426-9
5. 2002 Fallera ISBN 3-434-54034-2
6. 2003 Equinox ISBN 3-548-25684-8
7. 2004 Wanted ISBN 3-548-25895-6
8. 2007 Up to the Neck ISBN 3-548-26670-3
9. 2009 Everything totally groovy here ISBN 3-867-89064-1
10. 2010 Rotzig & Rotzig ISBN 3-867-89103-6
11. 2011 Freakshow ISBN 3-867-89140-0
12. 2014 TaxiBar ISBN 3-867-89197-4
13. 2015 TrailerPark ISBN 3-867-89202-4
14. 2017 TauchStation ISBN 978-3867892070

Other works

• 2006 The pig came in the mail (Illustrations: Papan ) ISBN 3-806-75112-9
• 2008 The Summer of the Flying Zucchinis ISBN 978-3-423-71416-7
• 2012 Platinum blonde dynamite ISBN 978-3-86532-309-5
• 2013 Battlefield of Love ISBN 978-3-86532-373-6
• 2014 Los Bandidos (published only as an e-book ) ISBN 978-3-86789-587-3

Radio plays

• "Sense" (WDR 2001, director: Leonhard Koppelmann )
• "The pig came in the mail" (SWR 2010, director: Iris Drögekamp)

Honors

His debut Prickel (published before Sense , although written later) was awarded 2nd place at the 15th German Crime Prize in 1999. He received this award again in 2002 (3rd place) for Der Willy ist weg . The novels Fallera (2003) and Equinox (2004) were nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize . In 2006 he received the main prize of the Ruhr Literature Prize endowed with 10,000 euros .

With his detective novel Alles total groovy hier he won 3rd place at the 26th German Crime Prize 2010. In 2012 he received the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science from the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr, endowed with 3,000 euros .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.wdr.de - WDR2; Zwei am Sonntag ( Memento from February 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) February 14, 2010
2. ↑ http://www.wdr3.de/kulturnachrichten/details.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=29823&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=1056  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Juretzka in the catalog of the German National Library