Jens Henrik Jensen

Jens Henrik Jensen (born May 6, 1963 in Søvind near Horsens ) is a Danish journalist and crime author. Four books in his "OXEN series" appeared in German translation from 2018.

Life

Jensen worked for 25 years as a journalist in various functions for the daily newspaper JydskeVestkysten in Esbjerg and also wrote detective novels. His debut novel "Wienerringen" was published in 1997. Since 2015 he has devoted himself entirely to writing books and in 2017 won the Danish Crime Award . He had the greatest success with the "Danehof Trilogy" about the war veteran Niels Oxen and the one-legged agent of the Danish security service Margrethe Franck. The trilogy was published as a translation in 14 countries, and Jensen sold the film rights to SF Studios in Copenhagen .

Jensen lives in Horsens with his wife and two sons.

Works

• Wienerringen . Borgens Forlag, Copenhagen 1997 (new edition, Politikens Forlag, Copenhagen 2017, ISBN 978-87-400-1623-9 ).

Kazansky trilogy

• Kællingen i Kraków . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 87-400-1615-3 .
• Court jesters in Murmansk . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 1999, ISBN 87-567-0755-X .
• Ulven i Banjy Luka . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-0772-X .

Portland trilogy

• Økseskibet . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 2004, ISBN 87-400-3006-7 .
  • The ax ship. A Nina Portland thriller . From the Danish by Christel Hildebrandt. Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-492-04804-8 .
• Kulmanden . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 2007, ISBN 978-87-400-3008-2 .
  • The coal man. A Nina Portland thriller . From the Danish by Ulrich Sonnenberg. Piper, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-05195-8 .
• Spøgelses catching . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-567-0206-5 .

Oxen series

• OXEN. De hængte dogs . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 2012, ISBN 978-87-400-3207-9 .
  • OXEN. The first victim . From the Danish by Friederike Buchinger. dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-21765-1 .
• OXEN. De mørke mænd. Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 2014, ISBN 978-87-400-3208-6 .
  • OXEN. The dark man . From the Danish by Friederike Buchinger. dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-26179-1 .
• OXEN. De frosne flammer . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 2016, ISBN 978-87-400-4218-4 .
  • OXEN. Frozen flames . From the Danish by Friederike Buchinger. dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-26180-7 .
• OXEN. Lupus . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 2018, ISBN 978-87-400-4149-1 .
  • OXEN. Lupus , from the Danish by Friederike Buchinger, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3423262439

Web links

• Jens Henrik Jensen, website
• Andreas Wallentin: “Niels Oxen Trilogy” by Jens Henrik Jensen. WDR5 , September 27, 2018.
• In terms of type, Viggo Mortensen would be an option for Oxen. Interview with Jens Henrik Jensen. In: The North Schleswig . 2nd April 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fact about Jens Henrik Jensen , Jensen website.
2. ^ Dtv author information about Jensen .
3. ^ Oxen , Jensen website.
4. ↑ Scandinavia's leading film company filmed the Oxen trilogy , Jensen website.
5. ↑ The first three OXEN books form the closed “Danehof Trilogy”.