Michael Koglin

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Michael Koglin (* 1955 in Büdelsdorf , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German journalist and writer .

Live and act

During and after completing his studies ( political science ), Koglin pursued various activities. He worked as a showman in the Port of Hamburg , container logistician , peace researcher, coffee roaster, private secretary, education consultant and gardener in a Dutch Zen monastery.

As a freelance journalist, he has been working for various media since 1982 (including “ Mare ”, NDR , “ Brigitte ”, “ Stern ”, “ Die Zeit ”). Koglin is the author of non-fiction books (“Seducers through the Hamburg museums”, “Italy in Hamburg”, “On foot through Jewish Hamburg” and others), plays for children, children's books and screenplays for television. In addition, numerous short stories were created , which were published in numerous anthologies (including in "Ripe for the murderer"). The focus of his work is his work as a crime writer . He has revealed the secret of the orphaned chairs at Miss Sophie's table in three volumes (" Dinner for One - Killer for Five", "Dinner for One on the Titanic", "Dinner for One with Al Capone") and with the figure of the "omen" he is the spiritual father of the first homeless investigator. On the basis of “Dinner for One - Killer for Five”, a play was also created that was staged several times in Switzerland and Germany ( Geneva , Solothurn , Frankfurt am Main , Weilheim and others). In 2010 the first volume in a series of psychological thrillers about the “special commission serial murder” with the commissioner Peer Mangold and the profiler Kaja Winterstein was published with “Bluttaufe” . "Blutengel" followed in spring 2011.

Koglin is a member of the Syndikat , the association of German crime writers. He lives in Hamburg .

Prizes and awards

Koglin has been awarded numerous prizes:

  • Hamburg Short Story Award (1988)
  • Literature Prize of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg (1989 and 1997)
  • Art award of the Ludwigshafen district for children's and youth theater (1992)
  • Script competition d. Hamburg Cultural Authority (1992)
  • Erich Kästner TV Prize as co-author for “Max and Moritz” (1999)
  • German Agriculture Literature Prize (2007)
  • nominated for the Agatha Christie Crime Prize 2003 and 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Koglin, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Büdelsdorf , Schleswig-Holstein