Lukas Erler

Lukas Erler (* 1953 in Bielefeld ) is a German writer who mainly devotes himself to environmental and socio-political issues. His debut novel Ölspur was published in 2010 by the Swiss publisher Kein & Aber . So far he has published five crime novels.

Life

Erler grew up in Bielefeld. He studied sociology, philosophy and social history in Marburg. He then completed training as a speech therapist and has been working in the profession since the mid-1990s. He lives in Bad Wildungen with his wife and two sons .

Erler began his writing activity around the mid-2000s. Under the impression of the oil spill when the Prestige sank in 2002, he initially planned to write a non-fiction book on classification societies, but in the course of his research decided to write a detective novel about merchant shipping. His debut novel Ölspur was published in 2010 by the Swiss publisher Kein & Aber and was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2011 in the category “Best Debut”. This is the first of three parts about the scientist Thomas Nyström, the other parts were published in 2011 and 2013 by Kein & Aber. His fourth novel Brennendes Wasser was published by Arena Verlag in 2014 . In this book he addresses the dangers of fracking .

Works (selection)

• Ölspur , Kein & Aber, 2010, ISBN 978-3-036-95611-4 .
• Murderous cargo. , No & But, 2011, ISBN 978-3-036-95591-9 .
• Record of death. No & But, 2013, ISBN 978-3-036-95601-5 .
• Burning water. Arena, 2014, ISBN 978-3-401-06935-7 .
• Eye to eye. btb, 2016, ISBN 978-3442713998
• Side effect. Arena, 2019, ISBN 978-3401604565 .
• The blind samurai. btb, 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-71821-4 .

Awards

• 2015: Segeberger pen for burning water

Web links

• www.lukas-erler.com , website of the author
• Short biography and reviews of works by Lukas Erler at perlentaucher.de

supporting documents

1. ^ ^{A b} Jürgen Priester: Lukas Erler, do you find revenge politically correct? In: Krimi-Couch.de . June 2011, accessed October 10, 2015 . 
2. ^ Segeberger pen to Lukas Erler 'Brennendes Wasser' , Bad Segeberg City Library, 2015.