Jan Eik

Jan Eik (born August 16, 1940 in Berlin ; civil: Helmut Eikermann ) is a German writer and non-fiction author .

Life

After graduating from high school, Jan Eik initially worked as a studio assistant and, after completing his studies, until 1987 as a graduate engineer for information technology for broadcasters in the GDR in Mittweida and Dresden . He has been a freelance writer and publicist since 1987, but his first publications go back to 1962.

He initially published glosses , feature articles , reports and reviews in magazines (including Die Weltbühne ) , as well as prose texts in anthologies as well as children's radio plays , features and jazz programs for radio. He wrote more than 20 detective radio plays. Numerous detective novels , non-fiction books, etc. have been added. a. on crime literature and media and Berlin history, as well as scripts and a comedy . Also the template for the film Dangerous Friendship from the GDR television series The Public Prosecutor got the word comes from him.

Jan Eik is now a member of VS Berlin / Ver.di, a founding member of the crime literature section of the GDR Writers' Association . He is also a member of the crime authors' group Das Syndikat , for which he was almost always the publisher and editor of the internal newsletter Secret Service from 1991 to 1998 .

Works

Detective novels

• The long weekend . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1975.
• Poetry is not proof . (= THE row ). 1986.
• The seventh winter . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1989; Verl. Der Criminale , Norderstedt Books on Demand 2000, ISBN 3-89811-675-1 .
• Golden hands . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1990.
• Then murder . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-360-00281-4 .
• Who doesn't die at the right time . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-359-00643-7 .
• Notice of murder. 1998 (New edition under Built on Murder . Berlin-Krimi-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89809-012-4 )
• The spirit of the house . A Friedrichstadtpalast crime thriller. Ullstein, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-548-24268-5 .
• The camera is on, Commissioner . With Friedel von Wangenheim . Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-24593-5 .
• Shooting . av-Ed., Ludwigsburg 2000, ISBN 3-929638-46-0 .
• Appearances are deceptive . Berlin-Krimi-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89809-010-8 .
• Curonian gold . A Hanse thriller. The Hanse, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-52803-2 .
• The black Dorothea . Historical crime thriller. Berlin-Krimi-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89809-502-9 .
• Deceptive festivals: death in the shadow of splendor . Berlin-Krimi-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89809-505-3 .
• The honor killing . Jaron, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89773-556-9 .
• with Horst Bosetzky : After Verdun - Kappe's fourth case . Jaron, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89773-585-9 .
• with Horst Bosetzky: The day Walter Ulbricht died. Jaron, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89773-635-1 .
• Gold makers . Jaron, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89773-643-6 .
• Doom in Dorotheenstadt . Jaron, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89773-666-5 .
• Katzmann and the silent village . Katzmann's third case. Jaron, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89773-924-6 .
• In the trap . Cape's 15th case. Jaron, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89773-657-3 .
• Polish tango . Cape's 16th case. Jaron, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89773-678-8 .
• with Klaus Behling : death by the flag. Our book recommendations for you, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86789-827-0 .
• with Klaus Behling: Makarov's murder weapon. Our book recommendations for you, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86789-826-3 .
• with Klaus Behling: Mata Haris in East Berlin . Our book recommendations for you, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86789-826-3 .
• Assassination under the linden trees . of Gontard's third case. Jaron, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89773-698-6 .
• Homecoming . Kapse's 19th case. Jaron, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89773-715-0 .
• Hot money . Kapse's 22nd case. Jaron, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89773-735-8 .
• Border crossings . Cape's 25th case. Jaron, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89773-768-6 .

Short prose volumes

• Invitation to Klaipeda . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1976
• Holidays in Vietkevitz . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1978
• A bed for one night . Crime story. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1983
• with Horst Bosetzky: Have you heard? Berlin oddities and memorabilia. Jaron, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86789-828-6 .

Non-fiction

• Special occurrences. Political affairs and assassinations in the GDR . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-359-00766-2 (3rd, revised edition. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-360-00766-7 )
• The man who was Jerry Cotton . Biography of Heinz Werner Höber . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-359-00799-9 .
• with Horst Bosetzky: The Berlin Lexicon . 1998
• Scary stories from Berlin . Guide to the city's dark secrets. Jaron, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-115-0 .
• with Klaus Behling : Crimes covered up . Crime in the Stasi. Militzke, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86189-769-9 .
• with Klaus Behling: Transit to Death . Crime stories from the Stasi. Militzke, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86189-807-8 .
• with Klaus Behling: classified information . The greatest secrets of the GDR. Militzke, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-360-01944-8 .
• with Klaus Behling: Silent Terror . Crime in the Stasi. Militzke, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86189-816-0 .
• The Berlin jargon . Jaron, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89773-583-5 .
• GDR German: a language that has disappeared . Jaron, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89773-645-0 .
• with Klaus Behling: 111 questions to the GDR. Who, why, why, why? Berolina, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86789-807-2 .
• A lot of fun . 30 years in the radio of the GDR. Culture machines, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943977-09-7 .
• East Berlin as it really was . Memories from the capital of the GDR. Jaron, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89773-800-3 .

Radio plays and features

• 1977 Holidays in Vitkevitz - Director: Fritz Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1977 Honestly Divided - Director: Bert Bredemeyer (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1978 Kleines Haus am Wald - Director: Achim Scholz (Detective radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1984 tip - director: Günter Bormann (detective radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1990 The Last Call - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Funkhaus Berlin )
• 1995 Das Funkhaus burns (The legend of an assassination attempt) - Director: Andreas Meinetsberger ( Feature - MDR )

Awards

• 1990 "Handcuff Prize" from the crime literature of the Writers' Union for The Seventh Winter
• 1999 "Berlin crime fox"

literature

• Short biography to:  Eik, Jan . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Eik in the catalog of the German National Library