Peer meter

Peer Meter in June 2012

Peer Meter (* 1956 in Bremen ) is a German writer .

biography

Meter grew up in Bremen, where he trained as a publishing clerk. In the 1970s he founded a printing company, published local newspapers and was also active in book production.

From 1986 to 1992 he worked in the independent cultural sector in Bremen. Among other things, he was co-editor and editor of the literary magazine Stint from 1987 to 1989 , as well as dramaturge , assistant director , actor and author in independent theater groups. First publications of short prose in various literary magazines.

Meter has lived as a freelance writer in Worpswede since 1992 .

Act

Since the early seventies, Meter has been busy with comics . In 1976 he co-founded the comic magazine Com-Mix . From 1988 to 1991 he published his first own comic works in collaboration with the draftsman and illustrator Christian Gorny. In 1992, it was nominated for a Max and Moritz Prize at the Erlangen Comic Salon for the first time .

Since 2006, Meter has been developing graphic novels as a scenario artist with German illustrators, including Barbara Yelin , Isabel Kreitz , Gerda Raidt and David von Bassewitz, which have also received international attention and have been translated into several European languages. They earned him a nomination for a Max and Moritz Prize at the Erlangen Comic Salon in 2010 and 2012 .

With Isabel Kreitz, Meter addressed the Hanoverian serial killer Fritz Haarmann in a graphic novel that received several awards. Together with Vasmer's brother about Karl Denke and Gift about Gesche Gottfried , he developed a trilogy about historical German serial killers with different artists and drawing styles.

Meter has been dealing with the Bremen poisoner Gottfried for more than twenty years in ever new literary and historical approaches. The basis for this are the court files on this spectacular criminal case that surprisingly appeared in 1988 and were long thought to be lost. In 1989 the printed version of his play Die Verhöre der Gesche Gottfried was published . The piece premiered in Flensburg in 1996 and was produced as an audio book in 2013. The graphic novel Gift also deals with this topic. In 2019 the independent film Effigie - Das Poison und die Stadt , for which Peer Meter wrote the script, was released. In 1995 and 2010 two non-fiction books about Gesche Gottfried were published by Meter.

Works (selection)

• The interrogations of the Gesche Gottfried. Stint, Bremen 1989 and Gosia / Langenbruch, Lilienthal 1996, ISBN 3-9804586-4-4 .
• Hair man. Graphic Novel, (with Christian Gorny). Carlsen, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-551-02426-X .
• Gift Gottfried. A long wait for death. Gosia / Langenbruch, Lilienthal 1995, ISBN 3-9804586-2-8 .
• Poison. Graphic Novel, (with Barbara Yelin). Reprodukt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941099-41-8 .
• Gift Gottfried. A tragedy in Bremen. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8378-1012-7 .
• Hair man. Graphic novel (with Isabel Kreitz). Carlsen, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-551-79107-8 .
• The interrogations of the Gesche Gottfried. Audio book. AS Theater & Film Ltd., Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-040300-2 .
• Evil ghosts. Graphic novel (with Gerda Raidt). Reprodukt, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943143-42-3 .
• Vasmer's brother. Graphic novel (with David von Bassewitz). Carlsen, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-551-72969-9 .
• " Effigie - The Poison and the City " feature film. Screenwriter.
• Beethoven. Immortal Genius (with Rem Broo). Carlsen, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-551-73120-3 .

Awards

• 2011: Sondermann Prize of the Frankfurt Book Fair together with Isabel Kreitz
• 2011: Munich Comic Prize together with Isabel Kreitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Graphic Novel Serial Killer Trilogy. (No longer available online.) Peer Meter, archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on February 2, 2014 . 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.  

Web links

• Literature from and about Peer Meter in the catalog of the German National Library
• The graphic novel serial killer trilogy: https://www.peermeter.de/die-graphic-novel-serienm%C3%B6rder-trilogie/
• Peer Meter at Perlentaucher.de
• Homepage of the author