List of German and foreign language press novels
The following list names novels that play exclusively or very emphatically in the environment of the press (media) , for example in the editorial offices and publishers of newspapers and magazines . It is about a living and working world that evidently provides particularly attractive, exciting and popular material. The focus is often on the actual or possible influence of the press on politics , economy , society and public opinion , the fight against grievances, the exposure of scandals and the careers and life stories of journalists. Often these books come from authors who were or are still active in journalism . It is not uncommon for the plot to revolve around politics, crime and agents.
Books from other media such as television and radio, short stories, novellas, plays and films are not listed. The list follows the alphabet after the author's last name.
German-language novels
Before 1945
- Hans Fallada (1931): farmers, bigwigs and bombs . Reinbek: Rowohlt
- Erich Kästner (1931): Fabian . Stuttgart / Berlin: German publishing house
- Hermann Kesser (1930): The hour of Martin Jochner. Berlin: Wegweiser-Verlag
- Heinrich Mann (1900): In the land of plenty . Munich: Albert Langen
- Joseph Roth (1939): The story of the 1002nd nights. Bilthoven: De Gemeenschap
- Friedrich Spielhagen (1864): The von Hohenstein. Berlin: Yeah
Between 1945 and 1970
- Hans G. Bentz (1958): Light from across the street. The novel of a great hope. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann
- Horst Biernath (1955): Of course, it stays between us. Novel of a small town. Munich: Ehrenwirth
- Bernard von Brentano (1948): The Usedom Sisters. Heidelberg: palladium
- Max Brod (1968): Prager Tagblatt. Frankfurt am Main / Hamburg: Fischer Bücherei (published as early as 1957 by Herbig in Berlin under "Rebellische Herzen")
- Hans F. Erb (1958): The editor. Düsseldorf: Progress
- Rudolf Hagelstange (1969): Old gentlemen's summer. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe
- Walther von Hollander (1948): Little demons. From the papers of the journalist Ferdinand F.-B. Hamburg: Springer
- Paul Georg Kaufmann (1967): My wife makes the headlines. Stuttgart: Engelhorn
- Wolfgang Koeppen (1951): Pigeons in the grass . Stuttgart: Joke and Goverts
- Heinrich Christian Meier (1957): Elsa Quast. Berlin: Verlag der Nation
- Egon Strohm (1946): Painful Journey. Stuttgart: German publishing company
- Martin Walser (1957): Marriages in Philippsburg . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
- Charles Wassermann (1965): The Journalist. Hamburg: Mosaik Verlag
- Bruno E. Werner (1949): The galley. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
After 1970
- Jürgen Alberts (1987): Landru. Stuttgart: Velcro-Cotta
- Helmut Bauer (1995): The editorial team. Frankfurt am Main: RG Fischer
- Jürgen Becker (1981): Storytelling to Ostend. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
- Jurek Becker (1982): All world friend . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
- Carla Berling (2017): Murder Chapel. Munich: Heyne
- Jacques Berndorf (1997): Eifel Rally. Dortmund: graphite and graphite dead
- Hans Blickensdörfer (1993): Salt in Coffee. Stuttgart: Engelhorn
- Hans Blickensdörfer (1995): A lieutenant in Paris. Stuttgart: Engelhorn
- Heinrich Böll (1979): Caring siege . Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Heinrich Böll (1974): The lost honor of Katharina Blum or: How violence develops and where it can lead. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Otto Bonhoff (1975): night editing. Halle (Saale): Central German publishing house
- Nicolas Born (1979): The forgery . Reinbek: Rowohlt
- Jürgen Breest (1979): Thin Skins. Frankfurt am Main: Kruger
- Michael Buselmeier (1981): The fall of Heidelberg. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
- Ingeborg Drewitz (1978): Yesterday was today. A hundred years now. Düsseldorf: Claassen
- Wolfgang Ebert (1983): The sheet maker. Munich: Nymphenburger Verlaghandlung
- Gerd Eisenkolb (1981): The Senator. Munich: Schneekloth
- Alice Ekert-Rotholz (1971): Five o'clock in the afternoon. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe
- Jörg Fauser (1985): The snake mouth. Berlin: Alexander-Verlag
- RoderichFeldes (1980): Lilar. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe
- Dieter Göbel (1981): Vanessa or The Lust of Power. Munich / Zurich: Droemer Knaur
- Christine Grän (1986): Whites rarely die in samyana. Reinbek: Rowohlt
- Max von der Grün (1990): Spring tide. Frankfurt am Main: Luchterhand
- Norbert Gstrein (2003): The craft of killing. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
- Peter Henning (2013): A German Summer. Berlin: construction
- Eckhard Henscheid (1983): Dolce Madonna Bionda. Zurich: Haffmans.
- Peter Johannes (1999): Pearls for the sows. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn
- Hermann Kant (1972): The imprint. Berlin: Rütten and Loening
- Hellmuth Karasek (1998): The magazine. Reinbek: Rowohlt
- Walter Kempowski (1988): Dog Days. Munich / Hamburg: Knaus
- Walter Kempowski (1992): Mark and Bones. Munich / Hamburg: Knaus.
- Paul Kersten (1979): Jump. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Hans Werner Kettenbach (1992): The fig leaf picker. Zurich: Diogenes
- Hans Hellmut Kirst (1972): Condemned to the truth. Munich / Vienna / Basel: Kurt Desch
- Sebastian Knauer (1999): The Research. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn
- Angelika Koch (1998): The water. Elsdorf: KBV
- Irina Korschunow (1992): The Mirror Image. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe
- Michael Krüger (1991): The man in the tower. Salzburg / Vienna: residence
- Monika Maron (1981): Fly ash (novel) . Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer
- Hanjörg Martin (1985): Heartbeat. Dortmund: world circle
- Hinrich Mattbiesen (1977): Tombola. Munich: Schneekluth
- Matthias Matussek (1991): Palasthotel Zimmer 6101. Reporter in frenzied Germany. Hamburg: Rasch and Röhring
- Barbara Noack (1984): A piece of life. Munich: Albert Langen / Georg Müller Verlag
- Milena Moser (1999): The life of the sailors. Reinbek: Rowohlt
- Jost Nolte (1976): Eva Krohn or inquiries about a model. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer
- Alexander Osang (2000): the news. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer
- Leonie Ossowski (1976): sour cherries. Munich: Piper
- Elisabeth Plessen (1976): Communication to the nobility. Zurich / Cologne: Benziger
- Uwe Pörksen (1991): Schauinsland. Stuttgart: Velcro-Cotta
- Michael Preute (1971): The Reporter. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann
- Erich Maria Remarque (1971): Shadows in Paradise. Munich: Droemer Knaur
- Thomas Rother (1981): The Sudden Silence of Wilhelm W. Bern / Munich: Joke
- Ekkehart Rudolph (1989): Upheaval. Stuttgart: Engelhorn
- Rolf Schneider (1990): Every soul on earth. Vienna / Darmstadt: Zsolnay
- Johannes Mario Simmel (1971): The stuff dreams are made of . Munich: Droemer Knaur
- Johannes Mario Simmel (1987): But with the clowns came tears. Munich: Droemer Knaur
- Johannes Mario Simmel (1990): In spring the lark sings for the last time. Munich: Droemer Knaur
- Monika Sperr (1985): Journey to Cathleen McCoy. Munich: Bertelsmann
- Michael Springer (1981): Bronnen. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe
- Justin Steinfeld (1984): A man reads the newspaper. Kiel: New Malik publishing house
- Bernd Sülzer (1988): Bensberg interlude. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Hannelies Taschau (1978): Landfriede. Zurich / Cologne: Benziger
- Volker Wachenfeld (1987): No desire for pizza: Roeder's story. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
- Franz Josef Wagner (1982): Big Story. Munich: Bertelsmann
- Martin Walser (1993): Without each other . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
- Otto F. Walter (1977): The wilderness. Reinbek: Rowohlt
- Erwin Wickert (1985): The abandoned temple. Stuttgart: German publishing house
- Gabriela Wollenhaupt (1999): Too colorful for grappa. Dortmund: graphite and graphite dead
- Geert Zeboothsen (1989): Race with Death. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer
Foreign language novels
stating the year of the first edition and the publisher of the German translation
- Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss (1981): Die Falschmelder (American, The Spike). Berlin: Ullstein
- Michael Collins (2000): Deadly Headlines (American, The Keepers of Truth). Munich: btb
- Archibald Joseph Cronin (1958): Das Licht (English, The Northern Light). Reinbek: Rowohlt
- Pete Dexter (2013): Paperboy (English, The Paperboy). Munich: Liebeskind publishing house
- Umberto Eco (2015): Nullnummer (Italian, Numero Zero). Munich: Hanser
- Richard Ford (1989): Der Sportreporter (English, The Sportswriter). Reinbek: Rowohlt.
- Knut Hamsun (1893): Editor Lynge (Norwegian, Redaktør Lynge). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer
- Mario Vargas Llosa (2016): The Revelation (Spanish, Cinco esquinas). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
- Guy de Maupassant (1885): Bel-Ami
- Annalena McAfee (2012): Line War (English, The Spoiler). Zurich: Diogenes
- Gregory Mcdonald (1974): Victim Seeks Matching Murderer (English, Fletch). Berlin: Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag (this is the first of nine Fletch novels)
- Tom Rachman (2010): Die Imperfekten (English, The Imperfectionists). Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
- Robert Richardson (1998): Headlines (English, Significant Others). Zurich: Diogenes
- Hannah Wakefield (1987): The Journalist (American, The Price You Pay). Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
- Evelyn Waugh (1953): The big news (English, Scoop). Zurich: Ark
literature
- Evelyn Engesser,: Journalism in Fiction and Reality. A comparison of the image of journalists in literary bestsellers with findings from empirical communicator research. Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag 2005 |
- Karl d 'Ester: The press and its people in the mirror of poetry. A harvest spanning three centuries. Würzburg: Konrad Triltsch Verlag 1941
- Walter Hömberg: news poet. Journalism between facts and falsification. In: Navratil, Ute, et al. (Ed.): Media as a mediator of social communication. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag 2002
- Jutta Jacobi: Journalists in the literary text. Studies on the work of Karl Kraus, Egon Erwin Kisch and Franz Werfel. Frankfurt am Main: Lang 1989
- Hans Kleinsteuber: Get out of the editorial routine, get on with the murder. Journalists conquer the crime genre or: Why media people are simply the better investigators. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of April 29, 2000, p. 28
- Volker Lilienthal: When reporters play detective. Commissioner on his own and account: journalists are at the center of a new variety of detective novel. In: Rheinischer Merkur / Christ und Welt, No. 37 of September 9, 1988, p. 18
- Cordula Nitsch: Journalistic Reality and Fiction. An Empirical Analysis of TV Journalism in German and American Novels (1970-2005). Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag 2011
- Cecilia von Studnitz: criticism of the journalist. A job description in fiction and reality. Munich: Saur 1983
- Petra Weber: “Nothing happened, but we have to report.” The journalistic profession in German literature from 1945 to 1995. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2004
- Jürgen Wilke : Beyond the day. Journalists as book authors. In: Communicatio Socialis. Issue 2/2008, pp. 171-191, ISSN 0010-3497.