Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg

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Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is a literary character from various detective novels by the French writer Fred Vargas .

Characterization and vita

Adamsberg is a commissioner in the 5th (i.e. the Latin Quarter of the university ), later in the 13th arrondissement of Paris . Adamsberg is characterized by a pronounced inability to think systematically. In fact, he doesn't even understand how other people think about things. At the same time he has an extraordinary gift of intuition, with the help of which he senses far-reaching connections - crimes - from seemingly irrelevant details and "smells" cruelty on things, processes and people. Another characteristic of his nature is a pronounced slowness. Adamsberg is thus a very atypical figure within the detective novel genre, who largely refuses to use the usual investigative methods and clichés.

Jean-Baptiste (French for " John the Baptist ") Adamsberg was born in a place in the Pyrenees . At the age of 25, he began working in a police station in his native Pyrenees and was promoted first to inspector and later to commissioner due to his ability to solve murders, which is a mystery to his surroundings. After 20 years he came to Paris, in the 5th arrondissement, where the first crime novels play with him as the main character. He was later transferred to another arrondissement. In Paris, Adrien Danglard is at his side as an inspector and - with his penchant for systematic thinking - temperamental antipole. His lover or former lover Camille Forestier also plays an important role in many novels.

Adaptations

The novels L'homme à l'envers , L'homme aux cercles bleus , Sous les vents de Neptune and Un Lieu Incertain were filmed with Jean-Hugues Anglade as Adamsberg between 2008 and 2010. In 2007, José Garcia impersonated the commissioner. In collaboration with Edmond Baudoin was Les Quatre Fleuves published as a comic.

Works with the main character Adamsberg

  • L'homme aux cercles bleus , 1991, German: Another train is leaving the Gare du Nord. Kriminalroman , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7466-1516-X
  • L'homme à l'envers , 1999, German: At nightfall. Detective novel , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7466-2158-5
  • Pars vite et reviens tard , 2001, German: Flee far and fast. Novel . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-2115-1
  • Coule la Seine , 2002, German: The black waters of the Seine , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-2350-4
  • Sous les vents de Neptune , 2004, German: The fourteenth stone. Roman , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-351-03030-4
  • Dans les bois éternels , 2006, ISBN 2-87858-233-0 , German: Die third Jungfrau , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-351-03205-0
  • Un Lieu Incertain , 2008, German: Der Verbotene Ort , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-351-03256-2
  • L 'Armée furieuse , 2011, German: Die Nacht des Zorns , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-351-03380-4
  • Temps glaciaires , 2015, German: Das barmherzige Fallbeil , Limes Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8090-2659-4 .
  • Quand sort la recluse , 2017, German: Der Zorn der Einsiedlerin , Limes Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8090-2693-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The character Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg on imdb.de ), accessed on April 21, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.imdb.de
  2. ^ Edmond Baudoin at perlentaucher.de , accessed on April 21, 2010