Manfred Brüning (Author)

Manfred Brüning (born November 29, 1944 in Bad Salzuflen ) is a German author and clergyman.

Life

Growing up in Salzuflen as the fourth child of master tailor Gustav Brüning and housewife Elfriede Brüning née Neusel, Brüning decided to train as a deacon at the Von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel in Bielefeld after completing an apprenticeship as a locksmith . He then worked as a youth deacon in Bünde and Nordhorn . 1982 changed Brüning as pastor of the former Evangelical Reformed Church in North West Germany in the Emden parish Larrelt . After 27 years of service, Brüning retired in 2009.

Brüning has been married since 1970 and has four grown children. He now lives in Apen .

After writing over a thousand sermons, his first crime novel Gnadenlose Engel was published in 2012, followed by a second in 2013 with Teuflische Stiche and a third in 2015 with Deadly Walls . The detective novel Die Tote im Hinterhaus , published in 2018, is the start of a new series about old cases of the protagonist of the first three novels, the Oldenburg detective inspector Adi Konnert.

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• Merciless angels. Oldenburg crime thriller. Prolibris, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-95475-005-4 .
• Devilish stitches. Oldenburg crime thriller. Prolibris, Kassel 2013, ISBN 978-3-95475-075-7 .
• Deadly walls. Oldenburg crime thriller. Schardt, Oldenburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89841-849-2 .
• Oldenburg murders: the dead in the Secret Annex. Schardt, Oldenburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96152-190-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Brüning in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website Manfred Brüning
• Manfred Brüning: 1000 sermons and 3 crime novels - portrait at ERF Medien