Martin Spiegelberg
Martin Spiegelberg (born March 23, 1955 in Hamburg ; † July 3, 2020 in Munich ) was a German crime writer and jazz musician ( guitar , trumpet , composition ).
Live and act
Spiegelberg, who grew up in Marburg and Stuttgart , worked as a guitarist and bassist from an early age . Since 1975 he has been part of the band Gipsy Nova by Kitty Winter , with whom he released the albums Feel It (1978) and Limelight Suite (1979). He also played at the Collegium Barbarorum , in his own quintet, which he led with Fred Breck, and at the Stuttgart Smallstars with Jeanette McLeod . From 1982 he worked as a trumpeter with Tyree Glenn Junior and as a guitarist in the Chris Haskins Band . From 1983 he accompanied the chanson singer Hana Hegerová and played in the Wolfgang Lauer crew.
In 1985 Sammy Drechsel brought him to the Munich Lach- und Schießgesellschaft as a musician and composer , where he stayed until 1998. He set texts by Werner Schneyder , Henning Venske and Klaus Peter Schreiner to music . He then worked again as a freelance jazz musician, for example with the Art Jazz Trio , the Flying Dixie Dogs or Alexander's jazz band , but increasingly concentrated on writing .
Spiegelberg mainly wrote detective novels and crime short stories. As a jazz musician, he can also be heard on Roger Röger's albums and a CD edition for his crime thriller Die Seele des Puma . Marcus A. Woelfle presented rare and out of print recordings of him in the RadioJazznacht on BR-Klassik on July 26, 2020.
Prizes and awards
Spiegelberg won the special prize at the young jazz competition in Nagold in 1976 with Kitty Winters Gipsy Nova . In 2005 he was awarded the German short crime prize by Tatort Eifel for his story Was Anderes . Furthermore, in 2010 he received fourth prize in the short crime competition of the city of Wardenburg for the story Shot from the Fog .
Publications
- The thing with Sylvia. éditions trèves , Trier 1999, ISBN 978-3-88081-224-6 .
- The soul of the puma. éditions trèves, Trier 2016, ISBN 978-3-88081-561-2 .
- Short stories
- Where do you get the money for the food? in: The hour of the father. Ulm manuscripts 2001
- Herbschde In: Wolfgang Kemmer (Ed.), Died shortly . KBV Hillesheim 2008
- Our best friend in: Jan Zweyer , Thomas Koch (ed.). Dead on Töwerland. Grafit-Verlag 2009
- Death of an emperor in: Rainer Breuer, Ursula Dahm Konstantin Reloaded éditions trèves, Trier 2010
- Shot out of the fog in: Tatort Wardenburg , Part IV. Friedrich Freese Verlag, 2011
Web links
- Web presence Martin Spiegelberg
- Obituary (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
- Martin Spiegelberg at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://trauer.sueddeutsche.de/mobil/trauerbeispiel/martin-spiegelberg
- ^ A b Farewell to Martin Spiegelberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spiegelberg, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author (crime fiction) and jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd July 2020 |
| Place of death | Munich |