Klaus-Peter Wolf

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Klaus-Peter Wolf
Klaus-Peter Wolf 2013 in Marburg

Klaus-Peter Wolf (born January 12, 1954 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German writer and screenwriter . His books have been translated into 24 languages ​​and sold over 10 million copies. He is the inventor of the Ostfriesland crime thriller .

life and work

Klaus Peter Wolf is the only child of a swimming instructor and a hairdresser. After finishing school in Gelsenkirchen , Wolf worked as a community service provider in a youth home of the Evangelical Church . Early publications earned him the support award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists in 1977 . With workers from the Eurovia company in Gelsenkirchen, which was supposed to be closed, he wrote a piece about their situation. What was only intended as street theater to support the fight for jobs was performed at the 1977 Ruhr Festival. The workers played themselves.

In 1979 he lived with a criminal youth gang and published the novel canned beer and meatballs , which made him known to a wider audience. As managing director of the literary publishing house Helmut Braun, he went into bankruptcy with a minus of DM 2.7 million . Then he founded a citizens' initiative to support Kurdish asylum seekers . This resulted in his novel The Deportation or Who Killed Mahmut Perver? . The novel was made into a film and broadcast by ZDF .

While Wolf was working on setting up a printing company in Nicaragua at the time of the Contra War , he received the 1985 Anne Frank Prize for the book and film The Deportation . Wolf processed the experiences of his time in Nicaragua into a revue , with which he went on a tour in 1985/86 , as well as in the novel Days that Burn Like Wounds . At the beginning of 1987 in Moscow he was a participant in a round table organized by Tschingis Aitmatow and Mikhail Gorbachev on current issues of world peace . Wolf belonged to the renewal wing of the DKP . After lengthy trips through the Soviet Union , he left the party in 1987.

In 1989 he founded the company Hot Pants for girls and women in order to spend two years exploring the girls and women traffickers in Germany and Switzerland for research purposes. He wrote the novel dream woman about it . Wolf is a member of the PEN Center Germany and has taken on the patronage of the association for a hospice by the sea in the city of Norden . He has written numerous psychological thrillers and crime films for television , including a. for the series Tatort and Polizeiruf 110 . For his screenplay for the television film Sven's Secret , he received the Rocky Award for Best Made TV-movies ( Canada ) and the Erich Kästner Prize ( Berlin - Babelsberg ) in 1996 , as well as the Magnolia Award Shanghai in 1998 for the best international screenplay.

Wolf has lived as a freelance writer and screenwriter in the East Frisian city ​​of Norden since 2003 . Together with his partner Bettina Göschl and his daughter, he produces CDs for children that are published by Jumbo-Verlag . Together with Göschl he also wrote the children's crime series The North Sea Detectives .

Ostfriesland crime novels

The novels reached the top ten of the Spiegel bestseller list for paperbacks. The ZDF bought the film rights and radiates the films since April 2017. as part of the ZDF Saturday thriller.

theatre

In 2005, the Wolfs Reviertheater theater group named after Wolf was founded in the Ruhr area. Since then, three joint plays have been created and premiered with the Duisburg director, author, actor and founder of the Wolfs Reviertheater, Michael Hoch, a theater adaptation of the film A Deadly Weekend , the youth drama Das Arche-Noah-Projekt (2012) and Der Seher ( 2014). The latter was added to the publishing program in 2015 by S. Fischer, Theater & Medien.

Awards

Works

Children's books

  • My friend Pinto. 1972.
  • You can't do that to me. 1991.
  • Daniel and the pirate captain. 1994, ISBN 3-505-00040-X .
  • The dragon castle. 1996.
  • The magic wood. 1996.
  • Pauline and the asphalt panthers. 1997.
  • Reading lions, computer, dragon, pirate, horse stories. 1993-1997.
  • The witcher of Bottrop. 1997.
  • Reading tigers, knight stories. 1999.
  • Three great zeros. 9 volumes. 1999.
  • Jens-Peter and the invisible. 6 volumes. 1999.
  • Moni's fantasy monster. 1999.
  • Tiger and Tom. 2 volumes, 2002.
  • Adlerfeather's dangerous fight. 2002.
  • Anna in the land of traffic around. 2003.
  • Reading tigers, pony farm stories. 2003.
  • Sea monsters ahoy. 2003.
  • Courageous knight Kunibert. 2004.
  • The magical adventure. 4 volumes. 2004.
  • Leon and the wild knights. 2004.
  • Agate, the angel from the drainpipe. 2005, ISBN 3-8067-5095-5 .
  • Agate - angels travel without luggage. 2006, ISBN 3-8067-5139-0 .
  • Master of the blue lightning. 2006, ISBN 3-7607-4047-2 .
  • Xuna attack. 2006, ISBN 3-7607-4033-2 .
  • The little pirates and the adventurous seafaring . With illustrations by Edda Skibbe . Kerle Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-70764-3 .
  • The little pirates and the king's treasure . With illustrations by Edda Skibbe. Kerle Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-70844-2 .
  • The invisible. Welcome to the chaos . With illustrations by Stephan Baumann. Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8337-3185-3 .
  • The invisible. Naughty friends . With illustrations by Stephan Baumann. Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8337-3186-0 .
  • The North Sea detectives. The mysterious house on the dike . With Bettina Göschl . Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8337-3382-6 .
  • The North Sea detectives. The ghost hotel . With Bettina Göschl. Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8337-3485-4 .
  • The North Sea detectives. The enigmatic whale skeleton . With Bettina Göschl. Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8337-3533-2 .
  • The North Sea detectives. On the trail of bicycle thieves . With Bettina Göschl. Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8337-3597-4 .
  • The North Sea detectives. The sunken pirate treasure. With Bettina Göschl. Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8337-3683-4 .
  • Pirate ships, pirate treasures. With Bettina Göschl and Wilfried Gebhard , Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8337-3790-9 .

Youth books

  • Zoff in the youth home. Weltkreis Verlag, Dortmund 1979.
  • Canned beer and meatballs. 1979.
  • UFOs in our city. Weltkreis Verlag, Dortmund 1980.
  • Speedway is our life. Weltkreis Verlag, Dortmund 1980.
  • Rock 'n' Roll in the coach, Brösel's Bavarian ghost hunt. Weltkreis Verlag, Dortmund 1980.
  • Neon fish.
  • The deportation. Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1984.
  • Murderous class reunion. 2001.
  • Felix and the art of lying. 4 volumes. 2003.

Meeting point Tatort ( arsEdition ):

  • The loner. 2006.
  • Slaves and masters. 2007.
  • The mask. 2007.
  • The snake. 2008.
  • Xuna attack. 2006.
  • Light at the end of the tunnel. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7607-2821-6 .
  • Night blue death.
  • Neon green fear.
  • Saturdays when there's war.

Adult books

Filmography (selection)

CDs and music cassettes

  • Knight festival and dragon dance, songs and stories of knights, dragons and sea monsters 2004
  • Indian feather and buffalo dance, songs and stories from Indians, rainmakers, buffalos and little wolves 2005
  • Ghost night and monster ghost, songs and stories for ghost hours and goose bumps 2005
  • Pirate Jenny and Captain Rotbart (2006)
  • Pony fun and riding happiness (2007)
  • Advent whispers and Christmas magic (2007)
  • Dinospuk and Dinosaur Flight (2008)
  • Ghost Haunted Midnight, Stories for Little Ghosts (2016)
  • Pirate Ships, Pirate Treasures (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Klaus-Peter Wolf. In: Munzinger. Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, accessed on September 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Julia Kuhlmann: Crime author Klaus-Peter Wolf finds characters in life. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. February 6, 2016, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Sponsorship award winners of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists 1957–2015. (PDF; 1,717.74 kB) Accessed September 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Gordon K. Strahl: “The seer” brings death. In: Derwesten.de . March 23, 2014, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Bettina Jäger: Gelsenkirchen author Klaus-Peter Wolf turns 60. In: Ruhr Nachrichten . January 10, 2014, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The deportation. Ziegler Film, accessed on September 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ On TV this week. In: Der Spiegel . Edition 15/1985. April 8, 1985. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Summer at U. Dortmund and the resistance ( Memento from February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ trafficking in girls. Mute woman wanted. In: Der Spiegel. Edition 37/1989, p. 69 September 11, 1989, accessed on September 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Klaus-Peter Wolf. In: Jumbo-Verlag. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  11. ^ Bettina Göschl, Klaus-Peter Wolf: The North Sea detectives. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Susanne Priebe (ZDF press and information): "Ostfriesenkiller": ZDF filmed Klaus-Peter Wolf's bestseller with Christiane Paul in the leading role. September 15, 2016, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Wolf's Reviertheater. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Klaus-Peter Wolf. In: Literature database for Lower Saxony. December 19, 2012, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Klaus-Peter Wolf receives the Saarland crime crime prize “Hombuch”. In: buchmarkt.de. October 18, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Klaus-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen