Peter Dempf

Peter Otto Dempf (born July 9, 1959 in Augsburg ) is a German author who also writes under the pseudonym Jan Hoffmann .

Life

Peter Dempf was born in Augsburg in 1959. He attended the Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium and escaped his undesirable banking apprenticeship by doing odd jobs. Finally, he studied German, social studies and history in Munich and Mannheim and passed both state exams for teaching at grammar schools. At the same time he began his work as a writer. After his marriage and the birth of his first child, he worked as a teacher at the municipal Adolf-Weber-Gymnasium in Munich . During this time he also made his breakthrough as a writer with works for Bayerischer Rundfunk and various larger German publishers such as Lübbe, Random House-Bertelsmann and Droemer. In 2005 he moved to the Justus-von-Liebig-Gymnasium in Neusäß near Augsburg as a seminar teacher for history .

Dempf lives with his wife and four children in Stadtbergen near Augsburg .

Awards

• 1989 - Art Prize of the City of Augsburg for Literature
• 1999 - Irseer Pegasus Literature Prize
• 2001 - Art Prize of the Augsburg district
• 2005 - Swabian Literature Prize (3rd Prize)
• 2008 - short drama award "Augsburger Quickies" (1st prize)

Works

Children's and young people's literature

• A dream catcher for you . Ars Edition, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7607-2452-2 .
• The adventures of the gang of ravens . Verlag Wißner, Augsburg 2006/10 (3 volumes)

1. Lukullus and the forgers . 2006, ISBN 978-3-89639-561-0 .
2. Betrayal of Bishop Ulrich . 2006, ISBN 978-3-89639-562-7 .
3. Spies in the textile factory . 2010, ISBN 978-3-89639-782-9 .

Novels

• The novice's message. Historical novel . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-37857-1614-4 .
• The astrologer. Historical novel . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-1591-8 .
• The Judas Conspiracy . Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89897-645-9 .
• The Fugger's amulet. Historical novel . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 978-3-7857-1572-7 .
• My heart is so light as a feather. A Mozart novel . Eichborn publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 2004, ISBN 3-8218-0951-5 .
• The mistress of words. Legends of Fantasy . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-426-19645-X .
• Fabulous Augsburg. Stories of a city . Verlag Wißner, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-89639-227-1 .
• The legacy of Caravaggio. Novel . Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-45579-0 .
• The secret of Hieronymus Bosch. Novel . Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1999, ISBN 3-8218-0389-4 .
• The devil bird. Novel . Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-45111-6 (former title: Der Teufelsvogel des Salomon Idler ).
• The Reichstag conspiracy. Novel . Edition Widerwort, Stadtbergen 2004, ISBN 3-931526-12-7 .
• Magritta. Suicide of a schoolgirl . Verlag Wißner, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-89639-235-2 .
• The house of the red demons . cbj, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-13753-6 .
• The dream of Eldorado. Historical novel . Lübbe, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7857-2410-1 .
• Princess the beggar. Historical novel , Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8387-1885-9
• The fountain master. Historical novel , Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-7325-2313-9
• The daughter of the monastery blacksmith. Historical novel , Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-4041-7594-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Dempf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Dempf in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Homepage of Peter Dempf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} deals with the history of the city of Augsburg.
2. ↑ deals with the life of Sibylla Fugger .
3. ↑ deals with the life of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
4. ↑ an attempt to continue writing Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story .
5. ↑ deals with the life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio .
6. ↑ deals with the art of Hieronymus Bosch , especially his triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights .
7. ↑ deals with the life of Salomon Idler .
8. ↑ deals with the rise of the Welser patrician family .