Norbert Horst

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Norbert Horst reading a crime story in Osnabrück on October 29, 2008

Norbert Horst (born April 8, 1956 in Bad Oeynhausen ) is a German crime writer .

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Horst grew up in Bergkirchen , East Westphalia , which gave the investigator his first series of novels. After finishing school in 1974, Horst became a police officer and initially worked as a patrol officer for a few years. After studying to be a detective inspector, he joined the State Criminal Police Office for three years in 1984. Since 1995 he has gained a wide range of experience in Bielefeld , above all as an investigator in white-collar crime cases, but also as a member of murder commissions. He later led seminars on stress management, conflict management and communication at the Institute for Education and Training of the North Rhine-Westphalia Police for eleven years . He then worked for eight years at the press office and public relations work at the Bielefeld police headquarters . He is currently working there again as an investigator. Horst is a member of the syndicate , the "authors' group of German-language crime literature".

He is married and has two children.

Author activity

In his spare time, Norbert Horst has been writing since he was 16 - first lyrics for his own band Goldmund und Lyrik and, in later years, short stories. Finally, after first publications in smaller anthologies, his first novel Leichensache was published in 2003 .

In a total of four novels about the chief detective Konstantin Kirchenberg from a fictional town in Westphalia, according to Tobias Gohlis , Norbert Horst has struck an "unheard of" new tone in crime literature: "The reader has never been so apparently undisguised, so disturbingly directly drawn into the investigation, swimming with the inspector's stream of consciousness ”. Thomas Wörtche describes Horst's prose as " driven by staccato , wit and irony are perfectly woven". The inner monologue of its protagonists is "if necessary in Anacoluthen " and is "heavily jargonized ", while at the same time "exciting and daring".

With splinters in his eye and the following novels about the professionally tired and smoking weed Dortmund police officer Thomas Adam, who is simply called "Steiger" by everyone, Horst made a new literary beginning, which Tobias Gohlis sums up as follows: "New investigator, identifiable places, multiple perspectives" . According to Thomas Wörtche, plot, protagonist and narrative style have become more conventional. Horst's knowledge of police processes has remained the same, "a keen ear for the various sociolects , for the absurdity of official speeches ". For Nina George , Norbert Horst's new style is “less breathless, more narrative, more sensitive, closer to human unevenness; sometimes so authentic that it hurts ”, and yet remains“ unpretentious and genuine ”.

For Kolja Mensing, Horst's unique selling point is "the deliberate use of the jargon of the 'file leader' and 'group leader'". But he not only masters "the German prose", but also has "a delicate feeling for the melancholy abysses of everyday police work". What makes the novels so unique for Elmar Krekeler, besides their authenticity, is how the mechanisms are made to be “compelling, sober, poetic to narrate”, as Horst gives them human traits, “differentiated, precise, without condemnation, without conviction”. In any case, Joachim Schneider finds it “phenomenal”, “how Horst turns boring police work into exciting literature and lets light shimmer through deep darkness without slipping into social kitsch.”

Awards

Quotes

“[...] Ellroy , he was the first one I found so good that I read several books in a row. I still think it's good today. "

- Norbert Horst : Interview

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ...: Author page - Norbert Horst. In: Syndikat, das-syndikat.com. Retrieved October 12, 2008 .
  2. ↑ norbert-horst.de accessed on March 20, 2015
  3. ↑ das-syndikat.com ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.das-syndikat.com
  4. ↑ Deutschlandradio: intermediate tones from October 12, 2008 (conversation with Norbert Horst.)
  5. ^ The surveys: Norbert Horst. ( Memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
    "I've been writing for almost thirty years and when it turned out to be something longer, it turned into a thriller."
  6. ↑ Norbert Horst: Norbert Horst - Vita. In: Norbert Horst (Official Web Site). Retrieved October 12, 2008 .
  7. ↑ a b Tobias Gohlis : The pull of the authentic . Originally in: Die Zeit No. 40 of September 29, 2011.
  8. ↑ Thomas Wörtche : Leichenberg 08/2005 . In: caliber .38
  9. ↑ a b Thomas Wörtche: Leichenberg 09/2011 . In: caliber .38
  10. ↑ Thomas Wörtche: Leichenberg 10/2017 . In: caliber .38
  11. ↑ Nina George : Psychogram of a fallible . In: Focus from August 14, 2011.
  12. ^ Kolja Mensing : German office prose . In: Deutschlandfunk from November 14, 2011.
  13. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: How unaccompanied refugees are excluded . In: Die Welt from October 26, 2017.
  14. ↑ Joachim Schneider: CRIME NOVELS: one every life . In: Badische Zeitung of October 28, 2017.
  15. ↑ literaturpreisgewinner.de accessed on March 20, 2015
  16. ↑ 22nd German Crime Prize 2006. In: krimilexikon.de. Retrieved October 12, 2008 .
  17. ↑ Herzogenrath handcuffs. Prize winner of the Herzogenrath handcuff. In: “Pro Stadtbücherei Herzogenrathe. V .. Förderverein der Stadtbücherei Herzogenrath. " June 18, 2011, accessed on June 29, 2011 :" Norbert Horst (2008) for the novel "Blood Sketches" "
  18. ↑ zeit.de accessed on March 20, 2015
  19. ^ The surveys: Norbert Horst. ( Memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )


personal data
SURNAME Horst, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oeynhausen