Jürgen Kehrer

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Jürgen Kehrer (2016)

Jürgen Kehrer (born January 21, 1956 in Essen ) is a German journalist and writer who is best known for his crime novels .

Life

Jürgen Kehrer has lived in Münster since 1974 . After graduating with a degree in education , he worked for 14 years as a journalist and editor of the city ​​magazine Stadtblatt . He has been a freelance writer since 1994. The total circulation of his books is around 500,000 copies.

Jürgen Kehrer is a member of the Association of German Writers and the authors' group of German-language crime literature , of which he has been a member of the speaking team since 2005.

Jürgen Kehrer lives in Münster-Gievenbeck with the crime writer Sandra Lüpkes , with whom he is married.

Works

The Wilsberg novels

In 2016 Jürgen Kehrer reads from his Wilsberg novel A bit of murder must be in the Recker bookstore Volk .

In 1990 Kehrer's first detective novel And The Dead Are Allowed To Rest . The main character Georg Wilsberg, whose eventful private life and development are not neglected in the series, is a failed lawyer and stamp / coin dealer in Münster and also works as a private detective . In the opinion of Kehrer, he is a typical Münsteraner, because many people live in the city who, after completing their studies, work in a non-specialist area. With this, he represents a personality who would not fit in with other cities, as it characterizes a guy who got stuck in Münster after his studies. The choice to choose a broken character as the protagonist, Kehrer explained by saying that these characters are always more interesting. The novels with their local flavor have sometimes adopted models or motifs from reality. Kehrer has already been sued twice by people from Münster who saw themselves as role models for book characters. In both cases, Kehrer was acquitted.

No further Wilsberg novels have been published since 2007 , as, according to the author, as the television series becomes more known, it becomes more and more difficult to place the novels as an independent work next to the film adaptations, although there are further ideas for Wilsberg novels . On October 20, 2015, after a long time, another Wilsberg novel was published with the title Wilsberg - A bit of murder must be .

All Wilsberg novels have been published by Grafit Verlag in Dortmund .

Wilsberg on TV

In 1995 the first Wilsberg novel was filmed for ZDF with Joachim Król in the title role; Leonard Lansink took on this role in the following episodes . So far, 68 (as of April 2020) films of around 90 minutes each have been made, with the TV productions becoming detached from the books over time. Only seven TV films are based on Kehrer's novels. In some cases, Kehrer wrote the scripts with an eScript team; in still other cases, other authors wrote the scripts. The TV-Wilsberg - owner of an antiquarian bookshop in the film - has now completely broken away from its book counterpart . Several characters who are part of the TV series' regular staff, such as his friends Alex, Ekki, Manni and Commissioner Springer, do not appear in the novels at all. Jürgen Kehrer has taken on small extras in some of the TV films .

Other titles

Jürgen Kehrer (2006)

In addition to the Wilsberg novels, Kehrer has published other crime novels without series characters, historical Münster crime thrillers and a non-fiction book about murders in Münster, and also designed the Münster quiz. He also writes scripts.

  • City book of Münster. The book about the city. (Ed. with Dieter Schnack). Stadtblatt, Münster 1985
  • Killer to Leipzig . Detective novel. Grafit, Dortmund 1993
  • Murder in Munster. Criminal cases from five centuries . Waxmann Verlag , Münster 1995
  • Spinoza's revenge . Detective novel. Grafit, Dortmund 1995
  • Shame of Munster. The Weigand Affair . Waxmann, Münster 1996
  • Death in the Peace Hall. A crime story from the time of the Peace of Westphalia . Waxmann, Münster 1997
  • The secret of the tulip bulb. Released Kettler's second case . Waxmann, Münster 1999
  • Murder in the cathedral. A crime story from the time of Charlemagne . Waxmann, Münster 1999
  • Exemplary murders . Detective novel. Grafit, Dortmund 1999
  • The Merchant and the Knights Templar. A detective novel from the medieval cathedral . Waxmann, Münster 2001
  • Murder on Hellweg . Crime Stories (ed. With HP Karr and Herbert Knorr ). Grafit, Dortmund 2002
  • Do not be afraid! Thriller. Grafit, Dortmund 2009, ISBN 978-3-89425-661-6
  • Münsterland burned down . Detective novel. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-26650-8
  • Lambertus singing . Detective novel. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-26864-9

Award

The authors' association Das Syndikat awarded Kehrer the honor jar in February 2016 .

literature

  • Jost Hindersmann: Crime Landscape Germany: The Munster Crime . In: Klaus-Peter Walter (ed.): Lexicon of crime literature . Corian, Meitingen 1993ff, ISBN 3-89048-600-2

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Kehrer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g GIG-online.de: Now speaks: Jürgen Kehrer , Interview with Alexandra Mai, in: GIG, No. 320, January 2013, p. 6
  2. ↑ And the dead are left to rest , Dortmund 1990, p. 7.
  3. ↑ Kristina Wahl: Münsteraner Krimi-Posse; Wilsberg and the angry professor , in: Der Spiegel from January 13, 2003
  4. ↑ "honor Glauser" for the crime author Jürgen Kehrer. In: Frankfurter Rundschau from 6./7. February 2016, p. 36
personal data
SURNAME Kehrer, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH eat