Jacques Berndorf

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Jacques Berndorf at a reading in Cologne (2007)

Jacques Berndorf (born October 22, 1936 in Duisburg - Hamborn ; actually Michael Preute ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Michael Preute is the son of the engineer Willy Preute and his wife Anneliese. He was born in Duisburg - Hamborn , but the family moved to Osnabrück a year later . Preute lived there until 1951, after primary school and a three-year war-related break from school , he went to the Carolinum grammar school , which he left at the age of 15 because of “insubordination and active disinterest” (interview). He then went to a boarding school in North Hesse.

After graduating from high school, he began studying medicine in Cologne . He followed the example of his mother, who, however, had never worked as a doctor. Preute actually wanted to specialize as a pediatrician . But in order to become financially independent from his parents, he broke off his studies and became a journalist.

Preute learned his craft from scratch, with stations as a typesetter and butcher . He got his first internship at the Duisburger General-Anzeiger . There he was able to make his fiction debut with the serial novel Mord am Kaiserberg . From 1962 to 1964 he was a court reporter for the Neue Ruhr Zeitung , then for the Rheinische Post .

In 1968 he came to Münchener Illustrierte Quick . When Preute wanted to report the invasion of the Soviet army in the ČSSR in the same year , he was arrested. On the occasion of his arrest and later release, there were differences between Preute and his employer, Quick editor-in-chief Siegfried Aghte. Preute quit and worked from then on as a freelance journalist and writer.

Mostly Preute wrote for Josef von Ferenczy's Munich press agency . In the following years he traveled to many war and crisis regions of the world: Vietnam , Lebanon , South Africa and Colombia .

At the turn of 1983/84 Michael Preute settled down as a writer in Berndorf in the Eifel with several research assignments from national news magazines . At that time he was researching a report on the so-called " government bunker" in Marienthal an der Ahr on behalf of Spiegel . In 1989 he presented the first Eifel crime thriller . In order to separate his novels from his non-fiction books, his publisher advised him to use a pseudonym .

He chose Berndorf near Hillesheim, where he lived at the time. In 1996 he married the sociologist Angelika Koch , who also wrote detective novels. In the mid-1990s, Preute moved to the Eifel community of Dreis-Brück . Like his hero Siggi Baumeister, he lives there on Heyrother Strasse.

He had already published novels about his protagonist Siggi Baumeister, but with the cycle published by Grafit Verlag he became known nationwide. In the meantime, his Eifel crime novels have reached a total circulation of over 4.5 million copies. His novel Eifel-Schnee was filmed by ZDF under the title Burning Silence . However, the implementation of the material had only rudimentary approaches to do with the novel, as only the people and part of the story were presented. At the 1996 Eifel Literature Festival , Preute was awarded the Eifel Literature Prize for his oeuvre.

Preute has long been a member of the syndicate , the “authors' group of German-language crime literature”. The association awarded Preute the Friedrich Glauser Prize on May 17, 2003 at the Criminale in Westerburg (Westerwald) . The Eifel writer colleague Ralf Kramp presented him with the honorary Glauser and gave the laudation . In the same year, the first of the audio books appeared , which are created in collaboration with his long-time friend Christian Willisohn . In it he reads his texts on piano blues and singing by the pianist.

In November 2006, Berndorf announced that Detlev Buck had secured the film rights to the novel A Good Man and was currently working on a script for a movie. We are still waiting for implementation.

In December 2007, Berndorf and his protagonist “Siggi Baumeister” moved to his friend Ralf Kramp's KBV publishing house . At the same time, his works, read by himself, were converted into audio books on Radioropa-Hörbuch . Since 2010 the audio books he has read in have been published by KBV-Verlag.

In December 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate by Prime Minister Kurt Beck . In June 2010, Prime Minister Beck presented the new crime thriller Die Nürburg-Papiere together with the author .

Jacques Berndorf Prize

In 2012 it became known that the Euskirchen district and KBV-Verlag had awarded the “Jacques Berndorf Prize for Eifel crime thrillers” to the best young writer who can clearly be seen playing a crime novel in the Eifel. The first work The Art of the Last Hour by the author duo Rosa and Thorsten Wirtz was published by KBV-Verlag in autumn 2012.

Others

The literary critic Denis Scheck certified the novel Eifel-Kreuz (2006) by Berndorf in the ARD show Hot off the presses that it was "terribly badly written".

For the first time, Mond über der Eifel (2008) received severe criticism from readers and the press.

The Nürburg Papers (2010) had an initial print run of 80,000 copies and a few weeks after their publication were 130,000 books. In the bestseller lists of Stern and Spiegel , the book had risen to number one and three respectively.

The total circulation of the thrillers from the Eifel series is over six million.

He received a check for 200,000 euros from Prime Minister Beck for the crime festival Tatort Eifel . He denied alleged defusing effects on the content of the crime novel Die Nürburg-Papiere , which appeared a little later, when asked. During his book reading in the synagogue in Ahrweiler, he had the main criticism of the state government presented by a member of the parliamentary group of the Greens .

Work (selection)

Eifel crime novels about Siggi Baumeister

  1. Eifel blues. Dortmund 1989, ISBN 3-89425-442-4
  2. Requiem for an executioner. Bergisch Gladbach 1990; New edition Hillesheim 2006, ISBN 3-937001-72-7
  3. The general and the girl. Bergisch Gladbach 1990 - template for the later "Eifel-Feuer", ISBN 3-404-13286-6
  4. The last agent. Bergisch Gladbach 1993; New edition Hillesheim 2005, ISBN 3-937001-51-4
  5. A trip to Geneva. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-442-45325-9
  6. Eifel gold. Dortmund 1993, ISBN 3-89425-035-6
  7. Eifel felt. Dortmund 1995, ISBN 3-89425-048-8
  8. Eifel snow. Dortmund 1995, ISBN 3-89425-062-3
  9. Eifel fire. Dortmund 1996, ISBN 3-89425-069-0
  10. Eifel rally. Dortmund 1997, ISBN 3-89425-201-4
  11. Eifel hunt. Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-89425-217-0
  12. The bear. A company chronicle for the 111th anniversary of the Gerolsteiner Fountain. Gerolstein 1999, ISBN 3-00-005389-1 ; New edition Hillesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-940077-02-8
  13. Eifel storm. Dortmund 1999, ISBN 3-89425-227-8
  14. Eifel rubbish. Dortmund 2000, ISBN 3-89425-245-6
  15. Eifel water. Dortmund 2001, ISBN 3-89425-261-8
  16. Eifel love. Dortmund 2002, ISBN 3-89425-270-7
  17. Eifel dreams. Dortmund 2004, ISBN 3-89425-295-2
  18. Eifel cross. Dortmund 2006, ISBN 3-89425-650-8
  19. Moon over the Eifel. Hillesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-940077-22-6
  20. The Nürburg papers. Hillesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-940077-78-3
  21. The Eifel Connection. Hillesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942446-13-6
  22. Eifel bulls. Hillesheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-942446-61-7
  23. Eifel war. Hillesheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-942446-97-6

BND novels about Karl Müller

  1. A good man (2005), ISBN 978-3-453-00629-4 and ISBN 978-3-453-43225-3 (paperback)
  2. Brotherly Service (2007), ISBN 978-3-453-00630-0
  3. The master student , with illustrations by Kat Menschik . (2009) Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-453-26643-8
  4. Die Grenzgängerin (2012) Heyne Verlag, ISBN 978-3-453-26672-8
  5. Lockvogel (2015) Heyne Verlag, ISBN 978-3-453-26673-5

Other works

literature

  • Janosch Hübler: Eifel Crime - the world of Jacques Berndorf . Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Briedel 1999, ISBN 3-929745-79-8 .
  • Thomas Przybilka: Siggi Baumeister or a pursuit across the Eifel . Nordpark-Verlag, Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 3-935421-11-7 .
  • Josef Zierden: Eifel crime thriller travel guide . kbv, Hillesheim 2000, ISBN 3-934638-58-9 .
  • Rutger Booß (ed.): Jacques Berndorf - Eifel perpetrators . Grafit, Dortmund 2001, revised and expanded new edition 2006, ISBN 3-89425-496-3 .
  • Wolfgang Bittner / Mark vom Hofe : The explorer of the government bunker . Michael Preute (aka Jacques Berndorf). In: I meddle , Bad Honnef 2006, ISBN 978-3-89502-222-7 .
  • Fritz-Peter Linden: Jacques Berndorf - Viewed from the Eifel , Biography, KBV, Hillesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942446-28-0

Film documentaries

  • The Eifel in sight - Jacques Berndorf on his 75th birthday , 28:52 min., SWR television from April 7, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ reactions to KrimiKritik1 at North Park-Verlag.
  2. ↑ http://www.willisohn.com/albums.html
  3. ↑ Thomas Holl: As exciting as a detective novel, only more expensive . FAZ . June 25, 2010. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ Announcement of the award ( Memento of October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on September 3, 2012
  5. ↑ Prize winners and background information ( memento of October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on September 3, 2012
  6. ↑ a b I'm still very young in my head . In: planet-interview.de . Planet Interview GbR. January 12, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  7. ↑ http://www.swr.de/swr1/rp/tipps/buch/-/id=446540/nid=446540/did=9233230/1g2vq1m/
  8. ↑ Kurt's Empire . Mirror . March 21, 2011. Accessed on December 29, 2015: "Without Beck, says Preute, the important 'Tatort Eifel' congress would no longer exist"
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Biography document for the 75th birthday ( Memento from April 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Berndorf, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preute, Michael (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crime novelist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg - Hamborn