Michael Molsner

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Michael Molsner (2013)

Heiner Michael Molsner (born April 23, 1939 in Stuttgart ) is a German writer and journalist .

Career

After graduating from high school (1959), Molsner studied German and English at the University of Heidelberg . After an editorial traineeship, he was first a court reporter in Munich , then a journalist in Hamburg and Hanover . He has been working as a freelance writer since 1968. He is a (founding) member of the Association of German Writers and the Syndikat (group of authors).

In the Allgäu he was a councilor for six years. He has lived in the Ruhr area since 2000 - first in Dortmund , now in Duisburg .

Awards

Molsner's crime thrillers were four times on the annual top list of the German Crime Awards. Dead need no apartment (1973), which was based on his script for the Tatort series, was repeated in 1995 among the "Top Ten". In 1998, the Syndicate awarded him the honor of " Gllauser " for his services to German crime literature.

Press

In the May 2000 book report it says: "This man knows how to entertain an audience". The FAZ considers Molsner to be "unusually smart"; his crime novels have "Anglo-Saxon qualities". Felix Huby (Frankfurt literary magazine LISTEN; summer 2000) considers Molsner to be the “best German crime writer”. The Frankfurter Rundschau (1996) finds the author to have “narrative verve and a differentiated understanding of the social environment”. The Süddeutsche Zeitung judges that some of his novels belong to literature, and: “Molsner lets his investigators make imaginary landscapes, in which everything seems to correspond to everyday images, quite unintentionally, from a crime-related point of view, while being accurate and exciting, and shows everything hides behind them. It's as entertaining as it is informative. "

Even Time sees "something beyond the traditional boundaries of the genre in the crime of Molsner. With his novels he represents the farthest point of the detective novel from the throwaway product, not narrative works like Böll's 'Katharina Blum' below. "Even Eugen Drewermann writes about the black factor :" The best kind of demanding and captivating entertainment I can think of. "

In October 1995, Der Spiegel wrote : “Among the authors of the early years, the trained journalist Michael Molsner proved himself in the long run as the one with the greatest narrative range and the most differentiated understanding of the social conditions and consequences of crime. The example shows his 1973 published thriller, Red Mass'. The sociogram a small town in which the fear of the student movement and the immigrant workers leads to two murders "The Schweizer Monatshefte called Molsner Molsner alongside Maj Sjöwall / Per Wahlöö and Leonardo Sciascia , Dashiell Hammett , James M. Cain and Horace McCoy for "educational entertainment and entertaining education".

The Marler Zeitung writes about his most recent novel ( You saw me , Münster 2011) : “A mature achievement, which is also wonderfully entertaining with this complexity ... The reader remains ... agitated, amazed and happy.” About the church thriller (2015) the newspapers of Medienhaus Bauer (Marl) note: “Christians (...) will read this novel with great interest and big eyes. You will experience your church anew: as an apparatus that cleverly, quickly and extremely effectively represents interests (...) Indeed a novel that could convey a completely new view of the church in the new year 2016 - because it is well researched ".

On September 5, 2012, the literature section of the six newspapers of Medienhaus Bauer, Marl announced the premiere of the play Dr. Faustus meets Phil Marlowe in Los Angeles from Molsner, who is coordinating the staged reading . “An experiment because of that,” wrote the newspaper, “because the speakers are largely lay people”.

Works

prose

Crime novels

  • Masks: The Devil's Whispers, Mafia Thriller, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014
  • Abrax: Killer at the Door, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014
  • Sarx: In the name of the father, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014
  • Spot on death, Zebulon Verlag, Cologne 1997.
  • Investigations against Zeus, Knaur Verlag, Munich 1992.
  • The consultant's strategy, Knaur Verlag, Munich 1992.
  • Lost in the honey trap, Knaur Verlag, Munich 1991.
  • The honor of an officer's wife, Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Cologne 1988 (new edition 1993).
  • The Sleeper's Option, Knaur Verlag, Munich 1991.
  • The cry of the dead fighter, Knaur Verlag, Munich 1990.
  • The Trojan Mole, Knaur Verlag, Munich 1990.
  • Euro investigator: Lady without a clear view, Piper Verlag, Munich 1990.
  • The burned source, Knaur Verlag, Munich 1990.
  • Euro investigators: Bingo for bigwigs, Piper Verlag, Munich 1989.
  • The conquest of Villa Hammerschmidt, Knaur Verlag, Munich 1989.
  • Euro investigators: Urian's track, Piper Verlag, Munich 1988.
  • Euro investigator: Company Counter Force, Piper Verlag, Munich 1986.
  • Euro investigator: The murdered angel, Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1986.
  • Euro Investigators: Dangerous Texts, Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1985.
  • Euro investigators: The Castillo-Coup, Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1985 (new edition 1989).
  • With unimaginable brutality (together with: “The white coat”), Heyne Verlag, Munich 1984.
  • Exit of a dealer, Heyne Verlag, Munich 1982.
  • Die Schattenrose, Heyne Verlag, Munich 1982 (Czech translation Stin lotosového kvetu. 1986. 2nd edition 1987).
  • Like a raging beast (together with: "A bit of fun"), Heyne Verlag, Munich 1981.
  • Eine kleine Kraft, Steinhausen Verlag, Munich 1980 (new edition under the title “The Black Factor” 1987. New edition 1994).
  • The dead do not need an apartment, Heyne Verlag, Munich 1980.
  • The second confession of Leo Koczyk, Heyne Verlag, Munich 1979 (2nd edition 1984).
  • Rote Messe, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1973 (new edition 1980. 2nd edition 1987).
  • Harakiri an executive, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1969 (new edition 1980. 2nd edition 1982).
  • And then I shot, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1968 (2nd edition 1974. New edition 1979. 3rd edition 1988).

Youth books

  • Chase to Eilat, Franz Schneider Verlag, Munich 1997.
  • Human trafficking in Prague, Franz Schneider Verlag, Munich 1997.
  • Terror in the Maghreb, Franz Schneider Verlag, Munich 1996.
  • The law of revenge, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1992 (new edition together with "Der derailed train" 1992).
  • The derailed train, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1991 (new edition together with “The Law of Vengeance” 1992).
  • Save the spot, Aare Verlag, Solothurn 1989.
  • Disco Love, Aare Verlag, Solothurn 1987 (2nd edition 1988).
  • The witness's son, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1995.
  • In Search of the South, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1979.
  • Oli Bär Gwahma, Delphin Verlag, Zurich 1979 (new edition 1974).

various

  • Michael Molser has written numerous works for radio and television , others have appeared on CD and MC.
  • At the Criminale 2002 (in Munich on April 16) he gave a lecture on the topic: "The birth of the German-language crime novel from the spirit of Schwabing", in which he not only describes the life of Friedrich Glauser , but also that of Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings illuminated.

Non-fiction

  • (with Elke Wiartalla) KulTourführer: Who if not Goethe , celebrities in the Allgäu, Zebulon Verlag; Cologne 1998.

Scripts and plays (selection)

  • 1973: crime scene - dead people do not need an apartment
  • 1975: Tatort - The second confession
  • Dr. Faustus meets Phil Marlowe in Los Angeles, world premiere in the Kreuzkirche Marl- Sinsen, 2012
  • EMMY - Dadas Stern über Dom und Strich (piece about the creation of Dada) 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magazine August 16, 1985
  2. ↑ March 26, 1988
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Gast, 1982
  4. ↑ 75th year / issue 5, May 1995
  5. ↑ on December 7, 2011
  6. ^ 6 newspapers from Medienhaus Bauer, Marl, literature page, December 31, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Molsner, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart