Olen Steinhauer
Olen Steinhauer (born June 21, 1970 in Baltimore ) is an American writer . He mainly writes espionage thrillers .
life and work
Steinhauer grew up in Virginia, studied at the University of Pennsylvania at Lock Haven , at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in creative writing . In 2003 the first part of his five-part series of novels appeared on the development of a fictional Eastern European state during the Cold War . This so-called Yalta Boulevard series was followed by a trilogy of espionage thrillers about the agent Milo Weaver.
According to Tobias Gohlis , Steinhauer invented a new type of spy in the figure of the "tourist" Milo Weaver who, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the collapse of old friend-foe concepts, acts as a globalized lone warrior, while in the back office so-called "travel advisors “Making the plans. He leads the reader into a “Post-Le Carré-Land”, which, unlike the spy novels of the old master John le Carré , leads the reader out of the structures of the Cold War to a “political thriller of tomorrow”.
In 2009/10 Steinhauer was Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the Institute for American Studies at the University of Leipzig .
The novel The Cairo Affair , published in 2014, is set against the backdrop of the 2011 revolution in Egypt and the Arab Spring . The focus is on a diplomatic woman who, according to Gohlis, has to atone for the naive belief in the superiority of one's own value system, representing a generation of Americans. What distinguishes the novel for Marcus Müntefering is the “human factor” according to a title by Graham Greene : by telling of people who want to do the right thing without even knowing what it is, and thereby become vulnerable and seductive, he tells "Of all of our lives".
Steinhauer created the spy series Berlin Station , which was broadcast by the American television station Epix from 2016 to 2019 . The main focus was the residency of the foreign intelligence service CIA in Berlin .
Olen Steinhauer lives with his wife and daughter in New York and Hungary .
Works
The Yalta Boulevard series
- 2003 The Bridge of Sighs
- 2004 The Confession
- 2005 36 Yalta Boulevard
- 2006 Liberation Movements
- 2007 Victory Square
The Milo Weaver Trilogy
- 2009 The Tourist
- Der Tourist, German by Friedrich Mader, Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-26610-0 .
- 2010 The Nearest Exit
- Last Exit, German by Friedrich Mader, Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-26702-2 .
- 2012 to American Spy
- The Spider, German by Friedrich Mader, Heyne, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-26821-0 .
Other
- 2014 The Cairo Affair
- The Cairo Affair, German by Rudolf Hermstein, Blessing, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-89667-519-4 .
- 2015 All the Old Knives
- The call, German by Friedrich Mader, Blessing, Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-89667-554-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Olen Steinhauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Olen Steinhauer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Olen Steinhauer at perlentaucher.de
- Olen Steinhauer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Olen Steinhauer's official website
- Contemporary Nomad (a blog published by Steinhauer until 2010)
- Interview with Olen Steinhauer on Literatopia.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias Gohlis : A new type of spy . In: The time of July 7, 2011.
- ↑ Tobias Gohlis: The desperate agent . Original manuscript of a publication in Buchjournal 2/2013.
- ↑ Tobias Gohlis: Sophie disturbs . In: The time of July 3, 2014.
- ↑ Marcus Müntefering When the West no longer knows which values it is defending . In: Der Spiegel from June 25, 2014.
- ↑ Not everyone wants to live in a small America in FAZ from July 14, 2014, page 10
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinhauer, Olen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore , USA |