Oliver Buslau

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Oliver Buslau (born June 21, 1962 in Gießen ) is a German music journalist , author of crime novels and editor .

Life

Oliver Buslau grew up in Koblenz and began writing newspaper articles as a schoolboy . He studied musicology , German and library studies in Cologne and Vienna . After graduating in 1990, he worked for the Cologne record company EMI Classics and as a publisher's editor .

Buslau, who now lives in Bergisch Gladbach , has been a freelance writer of texts on classical music since 1993 . In 1999 he also started writing detective novels. His first thriller "Die Tote vom Johannisberg", which appeared in 2000, was the prelude to a series about the Wuppertal private detective Remigius Rott , whose other cases were titled "Flammentod" 2001, "Rott sees red" 2002, "Bergisch Samba" 2004 , “Bei Interview Mord” 2005 and “Neandermord” 2008 (all published by Emons Verlag, Cologne). The stories about Rott take place in the Bergisches Land , the region east of Düsseldorf , and they reflect the contrast between town and country, rural structures and industrial regions typical for this area. In 2003 Buslau published "Schangels Schatten" (also by Emons Verlag), a crime thriller set in his old hometown of Koblenz . In 2006 Oliver Buslau published the novel "The Gift of Angels" - a detective novel set in Bonn on the subjects of classical music and Rhine romanticism . Buslau took up the subject of classical music again in several other crime novels: 2009 in “The Fifth Passion”, 2011 in “Shadows over Sanssouci”, 2013 in “The Orpheus Prophecy” and 2020 in “Fire in Elysium”.

From 2011 to 2017, Buslau, who has also written a wealth of short crime novels, wrote a half-page crime thriller for the TV magazine TVKlar every week . In each episode, the retired literature professor and hobby detective Archibald Winter, invented by Buslau, was the focus. In 2017, a selection of four of these stories was published in book form under the title “Archibald and Marcel's Secret”.

In addition to his work as a music journalist and crime writer , Oliver Buslau was co-editor of the magazine " TextArt - Magazin für Kreativesschrift", which he founded in the course of his first experiences as a crime writer in 2000, and of which he was editor-in-chief until September 2016. As a creative writing teacher , he also gives courses for budding crime writers. Oliver Buslau is occasionally active as a composer and plays the viola in various classical ensembles. In 1986 he wrote the identification march of the RKK ( Regional Association of Carnival Corporations Rhein-Mosel-Lahn eV).

Works

Detective novels about the private detective Remigius Rott from Wuppertal

  1. Die Tote vom Johannisberg , 2000
  2. Flame death , 2001
  3. Rott sees red , 2002
  4. Bergisch Samba , 2004
  5. At Interview Murder , 2005
  6. Neander Murder , 2008
  7. Altenberger Requiem , 2011
  8. The Bull of Berg , 2014
  9. Wupper Wut , 2015
  10. Wahn , 2017

Detective novels in the field of classical music

  1. The poison of angels , 2006
  2. The fifth passion , 2009
  3. The Vampire of Melaten , 2009, fantasy novel
  4. Shadows over Sanssouci , 2011
  5. The Orpheus Prophecy , 2013
  6. Fire in the Elysium , 2020

More crime novels

  • Schangel's shadow , 2003
  • Rheinsteig murder , 2013

The cases of Prof. Archibald Winter (book version)

  • Archibald and Marcel's Secret , 2017

Texts about music (selection)

  • Harenberg opera guide , 1995 (collaboration)
  • Harenberg concert guide , 1997 (collaboration)
  • Classic - Everything You Should Know , 2004
  • 111 works of classical music you need to know , 2017

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Buslau, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crime novelist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH to water