Michael Koser

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Michael Koser (born April 24, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German writer . He is best known as the author of detective radio plays.

Michael Koser studied history, German language and literature and politics and has been working as a freelance writer, mainly for radio , since 1965 . In 1973 he was awarded the ARD Kurt Magnus Prize.

Works

Radio play series

Michael Koser is the author of well over 150 radio plays . His best-known series about Professor van Dusen , called “The Thinking Machine”, had 79 episodes. The series was produced between 1978 and 1999 first by RIAS , then by DeutschlandRadio Berlin and taken over by several ARD stations. It was based on stories by Jacques Futrelle , but only the first five episodes are adaptations in the strict sense. Koser invented the other stories himself, regularly referring to real people and events from around the turn of the century.

The science fiction crime series The Last Detective also has an impressive 42 episodes. It was created between 1984 and 2001 in the production of Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 2008, two final episodes (41 and 42) were produced to give the series a worthy ending. These two episodes are freely available on the web.

The latest radio play series Cocktail for Two (DLR Berlin) was discontinued in 1999 after eight episodes.

More detective radio plays

  • Dead people don't sing (parody of Chandler ) (RIAS, 1971, length: 25'28 ")
  • John Bomb is chasing Dr. Pop (parody of Fleming ) (RIAS, 1971, 30 ')
  • Two knives stuck, oh, in my chest (RIAS, 1972, 30 ')
  • What helps against vampires? (RIAS, 1972, 30 ')
  • The Mysterious Fall of the Christmas Goose (after Arthur Conan Doyle ) (RIAS, 72, 30 ')
  • The Secret of Craven Hall (after CL Pirkis) (RIAS, 1978, 45 ')
  • The terrifying adventure on the Orient Express (parody of Sherlock Holmes ) (WDR, 1982); originally planned as a Van Dusen case.
  • Film Noir (Director: Beate Andres , DLR Berlin, 2000, 48'30)
  • The Alzheimer's Gang (Director: Bärbel Jarchow-Frey, DLR Berlin, 2002, 54'30)
  • The school of adventurers or Arsène Lupine meets Al Capone. Director: Renate Heitzmann , contributors: Manfred Zapatka , Katharina Zapatka , Gerd Grasse , Katharina Burowa , Wolfgang Condrus , Martin Engler , Götz Schulte , u. a. 49 minutes, DLR 2004.

More radio plays

  • Utopia there and back once (based on Robert Sheckley , RIAS, 1970, 30 ')
  • No more job for the robots (after Brian Aldiss , RIAS, 1970, 30 ')
  • Reserve (RIAS, 1971, 45 ')
  • Yeti in Poetry and Truth (RIAS, 1973, 30 ')
  • Oh and noisy (RIAS, 1973, 30 ')
  • Garbage disposal (Director: Walter Adler , SWF, 1973, 35 ')
  • Procedure (RIAS, 1973, 30 ')
  • Right to left: Super Tarzan Love Story Space Captain Lonesome Gun (RIAS, 1975, 70 ')
  • Heil in the wreath (RIAS, 1975, 30 ')
  • Today was it (RIAS, 1975, 30 ')
  • Loch Ness (RIAS, 1977, 30 ')
  • UFOs (RIAS, 1978, 30 ')
  • The Ides of March (RIAS, 1981, 30 ')
  • Vikings in Winland (RIAS, 1981, 30 ')
  • In the forest there are the robbers (RIAS, 1982, 30 ')
  • Butterfly with swastikas (after Philip K. Dick ) (BR, 1982, 90 ')
  • The Long Night of Young Werther (RIAS, 1982, 30 ')
  • Bricked in the earth (RIAS, 1982, 30 ')
  • The end of the world does not take place (RIAS, 1982, 30 ')
  • When the Romans got naughty (RIAS, 1983, 30 ') (title after the famous song )

script

comics

The stories originally written by Jacques Futrelle and implemented as detective radio plays by Michael Koser by Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Augustus van Dusen have also been made into comics since 2004.

Others

From 1974 to 1976 Michael Koser published and commented on bestselling novels of the 19th century for S. Fischer Verlag under the series title "Das Schmöker Kabinett" (including works by Karl May , Eugenie Marlitt , Jules Verne , Balduin Möllhausen ) in short afterwords.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jonas-nur-jonas-und-sam.de

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Koser, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin