Jan Zweyer

Jan Zweyer , actually Rüdiger Richartz (born December 12, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ), is a German writer.

Life

Zweyer grew up in Bad Oeynhausen and initially studied architecture in Bochum and Dortmund and then completed a further degree in social sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum. He then worked as a research assistant at the university. Between these two studies he worked as a freelance journalist for WAZ and in various functions in industrial companies.

author

Now Zweyer works exclusively as a freelance writer. Zweyer writes crime fiction, both short stories and novels, which mostly take place in the Ruhr area and are very popular in North Rhine-Westphalia due to their realistic descriptions.

Works

Novels

• Good luck for. Luck off. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-89425-212-X .
• Old comrades. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 1999, ISBN 3-89425-221-9 .
• Seventh sole. Querschlag West Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 1999, ISBN 3-89425-230-8 .
• Deadly offside. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2000, ISBN 3-89425-234-0 .
• Georg's secret. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2000, ISBN 3-89425-242-1 .
• Töwerland crime scene. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2001, ISBN 3-89425-253-7 .
• Brilliant death. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2002, ISBN 3-89425-263-4 .
• Sold dying. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2004, ISBN 3-89425-289-8 .
• When the sky disappeared Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2005, ISBN 3-89425-313-4 .
• French love. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2007, ISBN 978-3-89425-605-0 .
• Golden pheasant. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2009, ISBN 978-3-89425-611-1 .
• Clean bill of health. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2011, ISBN 978-3-89425-615-9 .
• Töwerland is on fire . Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2012, ISBN 978-3-894254032
• with Wolfgang Berke : Really criminal - the spectacular cases from the Ruhr area. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0705-8 .
• The house of the gray monks - The ward. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-89425-619-7 .
• The house of the gray monks - friend and foe. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-89425-620-3 .
• The house of the gray monks - In the service of the Hanseatic League. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2016, ISBN 978-3-89425-621-0 .
• A kingdom of short duration. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2017, ISBN 978-3-89425-623-4 .
• Heavy current. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-89425-734-7 .
• Black gold and old grudges. Grafit-Verlag Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-89425-624-1 .

Short stories

• Just us alone. In: Murder and falling rocks. Leda-Verlag, Leer 2002, ISBN 3-934927-26-2 .
• The Koenigsborn skeleton. In: Mord am Hellweg. Grafit-Verlag, Dortmund 2002, ISBN 3-89425-271-5 .
• With Walther in Aldekerk. In: Murder on the Lower Rhine. Grafit-Verlag, Dortmund 2004, ISBN 3-89425-285-5 .
• Margarethe. In: My Juist. Stories from Juist lovers. Verlag Alt, Juist 2004, ISBN 3-937767-12-6 .
• Goleo, Pill, Pils and Schalke. In: Blutgrätsche. World champion crime novels. Grafit-Verlag, Dortmund 2006, ISBN 3-89425-314-2 .
• The dear little ones. In: Died shortly. KBV-Verlag, Hillesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-940077-42-4 .
• Long weekend. In: Who kills Fischer's Fritz. KBV-Verlag, Hillesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-940077-28-8 .
• Fidget's plan. In: Money. Stories of beautiful bills. Heyn-Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0328-1 .
• Just over is also off. In: Dead on Töwerland. Grafit-Verlag, Dortmund 2009, ISBN 978-3-89425-358-5 , pp. 186-2002.
• Sale. In: Dangerous Neighbors. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2009, ISBN 978-3-89977-794-9 .
• Hunter. In: WM blood red. 20 tournaments. 98 dead. A game. Kölnisch-Preußische-Lektoratsanstalt, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-940610-09-6 .
• No right of return. In: Read or die - murderous things from the book jungle. Grafit-Verlag, Dortmund 2014, ISBN 978-3-89425-440-7 .

Private

Zweyer lives in Herne in the Ruhr area with his wife and a dog.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Zweyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage
• Jan Zweyer in Krimilexikon.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cholfirst-Krimi: Murder not excluded (PDF; 230 kB)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Kettwiger Weinkeller FlyerKriminacht ( Memento from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jan Zweyer at www.herne.de
4. ^ German-language crime writers Zweyer, Jan