Martin Calsow

Martin Calsow 2017 at a reading in the Klosterhof in Bevergern .

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Martin Calsow on the "miracle word" of his home region in northern Westphalia and southwestern Lower Saxony.

Martin Calsow (born August 8, 1970 in Münnerstadt ) is a German writer and journalist .

life and work

Calsow grew up in Bad Iburg ( Teutoburg Forest ). His father was a police officer.

After studying sociology , he completed a traineeship in Bielefeld . This was followed by positions at the TV stations VOX and Sat.1 as a TV journalist. He then worked for the Munich television station Premiere , where he was film director until 2009.

His debut novel The Lilith Code was published in 2011. The thriller about a political and religious intrigue also dealt with the various interests of those in power in the Middle East and the question of whether and how the region could be pacified in the long term. The sequel, Die Lilith Verheißung , appeared in 2012. In 2013, the first detective novel with the Bad Wiesse investigator Max Quercher ( Quercher und die Thomasnacht ) was published. Five more volumes followed by October 2018. The novel Atlas - Alles auf Anfang , published in 2015, marks the start of another crime series that is set in the Teutoburg Forest . In September 2016, the second volume, Atlas, followed .

Martin Calsow works as a columnist for the local news agency Tegernsee Voice . From 2013 to 2018 he was a member of the Information and Culture jury for the Grimme Prize .

Martin Calsow lives with his wife on Tegernsee .

Works

• The Lilith Code. Construction Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-7466-2682-6
• The Lilith promise. Construction Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-7466-2896-7
• Quercher and Thomas Night. Grafit Verlag GmbH, Dortmund 2013, ISBN 978-3-89425-423-0
• Quercher and the anger of the people. Grafit Verlag GmbH, Dortmund 2014, ISBN 978-3-89425-441-4
• Meat and lust in Oelde. Anthology contribution in Sexy.Hölle.Hellweg: Mord am Hellweg VII. Grafit Verlag GmbH, Dortmund 2014, ISBN 978-3-89425-448-3
• Quercher and the dead forest. Grafit Verlag GmbH, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-89425-452-0
• Atlas - everything at the beginning. Grafit Verlag GmbH, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-89425-460-5
• Quercher and the lawn of the soul. Grafit Verlag GmbH, Dortmund 2016, ISBN 978-3-89425-470-4
• Atlas - Free to shoot. Grafit Verlag GmbH, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-89425-477-3
• Quercher and the bloodfall. Grafit Verlag GmbH, Dortmund 2017, ISBN 978-3-89425-493-3
• Quercher and the Jammertal. Grafit Verlag GmbH, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-89425-589-3

Web links

Commons : Martin Calsow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Martin Calsow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martin Calsow's website