Crime best list
The KrimiBestenliste (until December 2016: KrimiZEIT best list , until November 2010: KrimiWelt best list ) has been a joint project of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung since January 2017 (until November 2010: daily newspaper Die Welt , then the weekly newspaper Die Zeit ) and Deutschlandradio Kultur ( until December 2016: Nordwestradio ); until January 31, 2012 the TV broadcaster ARTE was another cooperation partner. A list of ten detective novels is compiled monthly by a jury of 19 literary critics and crime specialists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland and presented to the media as a best crime list.
The KrimiZEIT best list or KrimiWelt best list has been published since April 2005. The following rules apply: “Once a month, each jury member names four current crime novels and rates them with 7, 5, 3 or 1 points. In addition to the total number of points per title, it takes into account how many critics have voted for the same book in a voting round. Each critic can vote a total of three times for the same book. Votes for books in whose production or commercial distribution the critic is involved are excluded. No distinction is made between crime novels in the original German language and translations. "
The SWR best list for general fiction was used as a model for determining the crime best list . The inventor and jury spokesman for the KrimiZEIT best list is the literary critic and crime specialist Tobias Gohlis .
Annual leaderboard
At the end of each year, the jury of the crime top list also creates an annual top list with ten crime novels. The next best crime novels of the year were:
- 2005 David Peace : 1974
- Further placements: 2. Leonardo Padura : The Sea of Illusions | 3. Fred Vargas : The Fourteenth Stone | 4. Arne Dahl : Deep Pain | 5. Ian Rankin : This is how he should die | 6. Elisabeth Herrmann : The nanny | 7. Heinrich Steinfest : The extent of hell | 8. PJ Tracy : The Lure | 9. Reggie Nadelson : Russian relatives | 10. Leonardo Padura: Labyrinth of Masks
- 2006 Robert Littell : The Cold Legend
- Further placements: 2. Oliver Bottini : In the summer of the murderer | 3. Andrea Maria Schenkel : Tannöd | 4. Paulus Hochgatterer : The sweetness of life | 5. Pete Dexter : Train | 6. Michael Robotham : Amnesia | 7. Arne Dahl : Rosenrot | 8. John le Carré : Secret Melody | 9. David Peace : 1977 | 10. Friedrich Ani : Idyll of the hyenas
- 2007 James Sallis : Driver
- Further placements: 2. Matti Rönkä : Der Grenzgänger | 3. Fred Vargas : The Third Virgin | 4. Peter Temple : Cold August | 5. Heinrich Steinfest : The fine nose of Lilli Steinbeck | 6. Astrid Paprotta : death by fire | 7. Massimo Carlotto : Arrivederci amore, ciao | 8. John Harvey : Don't scream so loud | 9. Ian Rankin : In the Name of the Dead | 10. Andrea Maria Schenkel : Cold ice
- 2008 Richard Stark : Ask the Parrot
- Further placements: 2. Martin Cruz Smith : Stalin's Ghost | 3rd Heinrich Steinfest : Mariaschwarz | 4. Peter Temple : Shooting Star | 5. Leonardo Padura : Yesterday's Fog | 6. Jerome Charyn : Citizen Sidel | 7. Robert Littell : The Sons of Abraham | 8. Tom Rob Smith : Child 44 | 9. Jenny Siler : Portuguese opening | 10. Jean-François Vilar : The Disappeared
- 2009 Roger Smith : Cape of Darkness
- Further placements: 2. Fred Vargas : The Forbidden Place | 3. David Peace : Tokyo in the year zero | 4. Wolf Haas : The Brenner and the good Lord | 5. Don Winslow : Frankie Machine | 6. Friedrich Ani : Being dead does not expire | 7. Tana French : Equal to the Dead | 8. Richard Stark : Nobody runs forever | 9. Pete Dexter : Paris Trout | 10. James Sallis : Dark Guilt
- 2010 Don Winslow : Days of the Dead
- Further placements: 2. Richard Price : Cash | 3. Dominique Manotti : Last Shift | 4. Pete Dexter : God's Pocket | 5. James Ellroy : blood wants to flow | 6. Josh Bazell : Faster than Death | 7. David Peace : Tokyo, occupied city | 8. Nii Parkes : The Bee-eater's Trail | 9. Roger Smith : Bloody Awakening | 10. Thomas Willmann : The dark valley
- 2011 Dominique Manotti : Red Glamor
- Further placements: 2. Friedrich Ani : South | 3. Kate Atkinson : The Forgotten Child | 4. Peter Temple : Truth | 5. Daniel Woodrell : Winters Bones | 6. Deon Meyer : Red Trace | 7. Giancarlo De Cataldo : Dirty Hands | 8. James Sallis : The killer dies | 9. Norbert Horst : Splinters in the eye | Jan 10th Costin Wagner : The light in a dark house
- 2012 Fred Vargas : The Night of Wrath
- Further placements: 2. Helon Habila : Oil on Water | 3. Donald Ray Pollock : The Devil's Craft | 4. Peter Temple : Days of Evil | 5. Sara Gran : The City of the Dead: A case for the best female investigator in the world | 6. Friedrich Ani : South and the secret life | 7. Merle Kröger : Borderline case | 8. Mike Nicol : payback | 9. Tana French : Shadow still | 10. Robert Littell : Philby. Portrait of the spy as a young man
- 2013 Patrícia Melo : corpse thief
- Further placements: 2. Friedrich Ani : M | 3. Warren Ellis : Gun Machine | 4. Jerome Charyn : Under the Eye of God | 5. Sara Gran : The End of the World | 6. Lavie Tidhar : Osama | 7. John le Carré : Delicate Truth | 8. Mike Nicol : Killer Country | 9. Daniel Suarez : Kill Decision | 10. Don Winslow : Kings of Cool
- 2014 James Lee Burke : Rain Gods
- Further placements: 2. Liza Cody : Lady Bag | 3. Oliver Bottini : A few days of light | 4. Mike Nicol : Black Heart | 5. Franz Dobler : A bull on the train | 6. Tom Hillenbrand : Drone Land | 7. Orkun Ertener : Lives | 8. David Peace : GB84 | 9. Sascha Arango : The truth and other lies | 10. Karim Miské : You can never escape
- 2015 Merle Kröger : average
- Further placements: 2. Friedrich Ani : The nameless day | 3. Fred Vargas : The Merciful Guillotine | 4. James Lee Burke : Embers and Ashes | 5. William McIlvanney : Stranger Loyalty | 6. Antonio Ortuño : The burned | 7. Carol O'Connell : Chalk Girl | 8. Richard Price : The Inviolable | 9. Yu-jeong Jeong : Seven Years of Night | 10. James Ellroy : Perfidia
- 2016 Garry Disher : Bitter Wash Road
- Further placements: 2. Simone Buchholz : Blue Night | 3. Max Annas : The Wall | 4. Liza Cody : Miss Terry | 5. Franz Dobler : A slap in the face | 6. Dominique Manotti : Black Gold | 7. Andreas Pflüger : Definitely | 8. James Grady : The Last Days of the Condor | 9. Malla Nunn : Valley of Silence | 10. Giancarlo De Cataldo / Carlo Bonini : The Night of Rome
- 2017 Oliver Bottini : Death in the quiet corners of life
- Further placements: 2. Graeme Macrae Burnet : His bloody project | 3. John le Carré : The Legacy of the Spies | 4. Jerome Charyn : Winter Warning | 5. Liza Cody : Miss Terry | 6. Tom Franklin : Smonk | 7. Monika Geier : Everything so bright up there | 8. Carsten Jensen : The first stone | 9. Andreas Pflüger : Never | 10. Iori Fujiwara: The terrorist's parasol
jury
(As of April 2018)
- Tobias Gohlis , founder of the crime best list, speaker of the jury, columnist Die Zeit , DeKrPr
- Volker Albers, Hamburger Abendblatt , DeKrPr
- Andreas Ammer , the presses , BR , DeKrPr
- Gunter Blank, Rolling Stone
- Thekla Dannenberg, pearl diver
- Hanspeter Eggenberger, Tages-Anzeiger
- Fritz Göttler, Süddeutsche Zeitung
- Jutta Günther, Radio Bremen Zwei
- Sonja Hartl, zeilenkino.de, polar-noir.de
- Hannes Hintermeier , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Peter Körte, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
- Kolja Mensing , Deutschlandfunk Kultur
- Marcus Müntefering, Spiegel Online
- Ulrich Noller, WDR , Deutsche Welle , DeKrPr
- Frank Rumpel, SWR
- Margarete von Schwarzkopf , freelance literary critic
- Ingeborg Sperl, The Standard
- Sylvia Staude, Frankfurter Rundschau , DeKrPr
- Jochen Vogt , NRZ , WAZ
References and comments
- ↑ Crime best list changes partner - from January with FAS and Deutschlandradio Kultur , boersenblatt.net, January 6, 2017, accessed on January 6, 2017
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 22, 2012)
- ↑ We may also clarify this case. on: WELT ONLINE. March 19, 2005 (Interview with Tobias Gohlis, the jury spokesman for the KrimiWelt best list)
- ↑ a b c d e Member of the jury of the German Crime Award