Jürgen Heimbach

Jürgen Heimbach (* 1961 in Koblenz ) is a German writer .

Career

Jürgen Heimbach attended the Johannes-Gymnasium in Niederlahnstein until 1978 , which he left before graduating from high school to do an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk in Koblenz. From 1981 to 1984 he attained university entrance qualification via the second educational path at Koblenz Kolleg. During this time Heimbach began to occupy himself intensively with film and photography. He has been studying German and philosophy in Mainz since 1985, where he founded the agA theater group with fellow students and organized theater festivals at the university, before co-founding the darK.-Halle theater in downtown Mainz in 1992 , where he staged several productions and organized festivals. From 1997 to 2009 he formed the artist group VIER with Peter Heinz, Stephan Truschel and at times Charlotte Löbner , which showed space-related installations, films, photographs, graphics and text works.

Heimbach has been working as an editor for television since 1996. After earlier attempts at writing, he resumed this activity in 2007. In 2008 he published the youth novel Johannes' Nacht , the following year the detective novel Sudden Death of a Hooker . In 2011 his detective novel Chagall's Rache was published , in 2012 his crime thriller Unter Trümmern , which takes place in the post-war period. Under rubble was nominated for the crime thriller in the category "National Crime". In 2014, the crime novel Alte Feinde followed , which was also nominated for the Krimi-Blitz. In 2016, Offene Wunden was published , the final volume of his post-war trilogy about Commissioner Paul Koch, who had returned to Germany from exile. In 2019 he published the novel Die Rote Hand , which was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2020 for the best detective novel . Heimbach's short crime stories have been published in various anthologies .

Heimbach is in the group of German-language crime fiction authors " Syndikat " and a member of the crime authors' association "Mörderisches Rheinhessen". Has been a member of the jury of the Rhineland-Palatinate Youth Book Prize since 2008. Jürgen Heimbach has been a member of the preliminary jury of the German TV Crime Festival since 2016 .

Works

Novels

• John's night. A detective novel from Mainz. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7973-1079-8 (youth novel).
• Sudden death of a hooker. Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-937782-86-7 (detective novel).
• Chagall's revenge. Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942291-19-4 (detective novel).
• Under rubble. Pendragon Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-865323-41-5 (detective novel).
• Old enemies. Pendragon Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-86532-389-7 (detective novel).
• Open wounds. Pendragon Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-86532-526-6 (detective novel).
• The red hand. weissbooks.w Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-86337-177-7 (novel).

Anthologies

• A piece of wood from which dreams can be made. In: Wolfhard Klein (Ed.): Perfect victims. Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-937782-89-8 .
• Weather-related delays. In: Antje Fries (Ed.): Right next door. Short thrillers from the murderous Rheinhessen. Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-942291-05-7 .
• The difficulty of planning a crime and other problems with crime novel writing. In: Sigfrid Gauch, Friederike Harig (Hrsg.): Insights - Confessions from the poet's workshops. Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Zell / Mosel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89801-223-2 (Edition Pacemaker, Vol. 23).
• Learning to die or in the air tonight. In: Christian Pfarr (Ed.): Murderous Rheinhessen 4 One murder too many. Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942291-27-9 .
• The humility of the connoisseur. In: Sibylle Zimmermann (Hrsg.): Rieslingleichen. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-939540-79-3 .
• Read it, damn it! In: Monika Böss (Ed.): Inkas Lesetraum (a). Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Zell / Mosel 2011, ISBN 978-3-89801-230-0 (Edition Pacemaker Vol. 30).
• Lewwerknepp. In: Antje Fries and Angelika Schulz-Parthu (eds.): Weck, Worscht - Mord! Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942291-33-0 .
• Endstation Nachtasyl In: Heidrun Immendorf (Hrsg.): Death comes at night Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-942291-44-6 .
• Freedom In: Claudia Platz, Angelika Schulz-Parthu (ed.): Deadly mulled wine. Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-942291-67-5
• The last candle In: Angelika Schulz-Parthu, Gina Greifenstein (Ed.): Deadly mulled wine. Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-942291-80-4 .
• Treibgut In: Claudia Platz (Ed.): Feurio. Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-942291-85-9 .
• Moscow Inkasso In: Susanne Kronenberg, Belinda Vogt (Ed.): When quoting murder. Brücken Verlag, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-944080-08-6 .
• Treu zum Rhein In: Antje Fries (Hrsg.): 1000 hills - 1000 shadows. 17 historical short thrillers from Rheinhessen. Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-945782-14-9 .
• In the pure sphere of loyally cherished garden and family happiness In: Leila Emami, Fenna Williamns (ed.): Hortus Delicti - From the park to the coffin. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-95428-212-8 .
• Embarrassing interrogation. In: Belinda Vogt (Ed.): Murderer Dead Commissioners. BoD, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7481-2933-2 (text written for crime day 2017).
• Warming room for those who are not completely sleepy. In: Belinda Vogt (Ed.): Murderer Dead Commissioners. BoD, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7481-2933-2 (text written for the crime day 2018).

Others

• Nature Morte - red-black internet crime thriller and installation by Jürgen Heimbach and Alexander Kehry, 2011 (at www.flickering.de)
• For the author group Mörderisches Rheinhessen, editor of the children's crime anthologies What happened? (Volume II, III and IV) published by Dieter Kumpf

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Heimbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Heimbach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• http://www.juergen-heimbach.de/