Michael Horbach

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Michael Horbach (born December 13, 1924 in Aachen , † November 1, 1986 in Marseille ; pseudonyms : Michael Donrath, TS Laurens, Roger Ravenna, Alex Torgau, Alexander Torgau ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Michael Horbach was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the age of eighteen and deployed on the Eastern Front, where he was wounded several times. After the end of the Second World War he worked as a journalist and worked for various news agencies . In addition, he began to write novels in which he processed his war experiences and his experiences in the first post-war years.

In 1958 he married the journalist Ursula Schaake, whom he encouraged to write and who rose to become a successful novelist under the name Alexandra Cordes . Michael Horbach repeatedly included topics from the time of the Third Reich in his works ; In addition, novels on current topics were created, which, however , were dismissed by literary criticism as pure entertainment or trivial literature . The total circulation of Horbach's works in the mid-1980s was more than four million copies sold.

Michael Horbach had lived with his wife on a spacious estate in Châteauneuf-du-Pape in Provence since the mid-1970s . The gun lover Horbach shot his wife Alexandra Cordes with a revolver from his gun collection on the night of October 27, 1986, and a few hours later shot himself in the head, which resulted in death in a hospital in Marseille after several days of coma .

Works

  • The betrayed sons , Hamburg 1957
  • Before the night began , Munich [including] 1960
  • Yesterday was Judgment Day , Munich [including] 1960
  • Return to Friedland , Bayreuth 1961 (under the name Michael Donrath)
  • Love in Babylon , Vienna [ao] 1961
  • Good night, white man , Bayreuth 1962 (under the name Michael Donrath)
  • The picture of the perpetrator , Bayreuth 1964 (under the name Michael Donrath)
  • Few , Munich 1964
  • Conversation with the murderer , Bayreuth 1965
  • After twenty years of loyalty , Munich 1966 (under the name Michael Donrath)
  • As far as love leads , Bergisch Gladbach 1967 (under the name Alex Torgau)
  • Arabian Nights , Bergisch Gladbach 1968 (under the name TS Laurens)
  • Face of a Generation , Freiburg [ua] 1968
  • The song of the rain bird , Munich 1968 (under the name Michael Donrath)
  • Dr. Lesius, the devil , Bergisch Gladbach 1969 (under the name Michael Donrath)
  • Dr. Lesius, the devil's tyrant , Bergisch Gladbach 1969 (under the name Michael Donrath)
  • The damned of love , Bergisch Gladbach 1969 (under the name Alexander Torgau)
  • The hour of the decoys , Bayreuth 1970
  • Atonement in space , Bayreuth 1970 (under the name Michael Donrath)
  • Die Titanen , Munich [among others] 1970
  • The struggle for the last animal paradises in Africa , Munich [among others] 1972
  • Next year in Jerusalem , Munich [and others] 1973
  • The Chancellor's Tour , Bern [among others] 1974
  • The angel who went to hell , Bayreuth 1976 (under the name Roger Ravenna)
  • Die Löwin , Bern [et al.] 1976
  • Allah is great , Bern [ua] 1977
  • The German Heart , Munich 1978
  • How they survived the Holocaust: Testimonies of Humanity 1933-1945 , Munich 1979
  • Leaves before the storm , Munich 1980
  • The song of love and hate , Munich 1981 (together with Alexandra Cordes )
  • Church of the Holy Sepulcher , Munich 1981
  • The stolen dream , Munich 1982
  • Paradise on your lips , Munich 1983 (together with Alexandra Cordes )
  • The roof of the stars , Munich 1983
  • A man's life , Munich 1983
  • Hitler's daughter , Rastatt 1984
  • Rabbits on Potsdamer Platz , Munich 1984
  • My brother Kain , Munich 1984
  • The atonement without guilt , Munich 1984
  • And yet not alone , Munich 1984
  • The glass mask , Munich 1985
  • Heimat , Munich [ua] 1985 (together with Alexandra Cordes )
  • The girl in the Silbermond , Munich 1985
  • Agent Roulette , Munich 1986
  • The girl from fire and ice , Rastatt 1986
  • Morgenröte company , Munich 1986
  • Wild dogs , Munich 1987

literature

  • Erich Schaake: To love and die in Provence , Munich 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Horbach, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donrath, Michael; Laurens, TS; Ravenna, Roger; Torgau, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1986
Place of death Marseille , France