Martin Arz

Martin Arz (born July 3, 1963 in Würzburg ) is a German writer and visual artist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Martin Arz studied art history , folklore, and prehistory for a year at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg . In 1983 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and switched to theater studies , ethnology and art education . During his studies, which he completed with a master's degree, Arz wrote for the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and presented his art in exhibitions. Arz then worked as a public relations consultant for McDonald’s before becoming a full painter and author.

As an artist, Arz was influenced by Pop Art and New Objectivity , especially in earlier works . The main topic of his work is people. In his square skulls, Arz moves away from realism and breaks down the portrayed, for example, into colored puzzles.

As a crime writer, he published a work on the amateur detective Felix von Schwind for the first time in 1999; another three Felix novels, written as first-person stories with a strong satirical influence, followed. In 2004 the first crime novel was published with the detective Max Pfeffer, The Gifted Girl , which was selected by Brigitte magazine as one of the 15 best new paperback publications of the year. Both crime series are set almost exclusively in Munich , often in the Glockenbachviertel . It is unusual for German crime novels that both series heroes are homosexual . The Felix series also partly takes place in the gay scene.

Arz also publishes short stories and thrillers and, as a non-fictional author, publishes books on Munich districts. He lives in Munich .

Works

Detective novels

Felix novels

• It is executed , Bruno Gmünder Verlag , Berlin, 1999, ISBN 3-86187-411-3 .
• Seven tubes of corpse blood , Bruno Gmünder Verlag, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-86187-412-1 .
• Mords Rummel , Bruno Gmünder Verlag, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-86187-414-8 .
• Death of a Slut , Bruno Gmünder Verlag, Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3-86187-594-2 .

Max Pfeffer novels

• The gift girl , Leda Verlag, Leer, 2004, ISBN 3-93492-742-4 .
• Reine Nervensache , Leda Verlag, Leer, 2005, ISBN 3-934927-62-9 .
• The bone seamstress , Querverlag, 2009, ISBN 3-89656-167-7 .
• Pechwinkel , Hirschkäfer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-940839-18-3 .
• Westend17 , Hirschkäfer Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3940839-33-6 .

Non-fiction

• The Isarvorstadt, Gärtnerplatz-, Glockenbach- and Schlachthofviertel , Hirschkäfer Verlag, Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940839-00-8 .
• Die Maxvorstadt, The Unknown Beauty (co-author: Ulrich Schall), Hirschkäfer Verlag, Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940839-01-5 .
• Giesing , Hirschkäfer Verlag, Munich, 2014, ISBN 978-3-940839-36-7 .

Exhibitions

• 1997: 3rd EigenArt , Munich
• 1997: Ebersberg Art Prize, Ebersberg
• 1998: Africa , art treatment, Munich
• 2005: Galerie Junge, Berlin
• 2006: Lenbach construction site , art pavilion, Munich
• 2006: KrimiKunst , Günter Grass-Haus, Lübeck
• 2006: Annual exhibition at Kunstverein Ebersberg, Ebersberg

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Arz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martin Arz website
• Interview on the book "Die Maxvorstadt"