Peter Holenstein
Peter Holenstein (born December 19, 1946 in Adliswil ; † January 17, 2019 in Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist and book author .
Life
In his journalistic work, for example in Weltwoche, Peter Holenstein dealt in particular with topics of criminal justice and crime, the perpetrator-victim problem and the causes of violent crimes. His book The Incredible - The Murderous Life of Werner Ferrari led in 2007 in the child murder case of Ruth Steinmann to an appeal process at the Baden District Court, which ended in an acquittal for Ferrari. As early as 1979, Holenstein succeeded in resolving a murder case in Italy with his research: after he was able to convict the right perpetrator and he made a confession, the 46-year-old Swiss Werner Rudolf Meier was served by Italy's president after serving 24 years innocently in Elba prison Sandro Pertini pardoned.
In 2001, Holenstein was awarded the German Regino Prize for the best judicial report of the year for Der Verdacht , published in the Tages-Anzeiger magazine . Peter Holenstein was a member of the Swiss Working Group for Criminology (SAK) and the Swiss Criminological Society (SKG / SSDP). At the age of 72, he died in Zurich in January 2019 as a result of a heart attack.
Works
- Dear Lucifer: dead texts - dead texts. Edizioni Casa poetica, dates 1974.
- Flowers do not please the dead. Bubenberg, Bern 1977, ISBN 3-85585-022-4 .
- ... and each king is just one guest - The Palace in Gstaad. Scherz Verlag, Bern / Munich 1982.
- For example Stefan: Record of a deadly addiction. Oesch, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-85833-569-X .
- Tilfaehls. Verlag Sommer & Soerensen, Copenhagen 1984, ISBN 87-7499-654-1 .
- Coffee: the brown gold. BEA-und-Poly-Verlags-AG, Brugg 1985.
- Ernst Bieri , Peter Holenstein, Karl Völk: A family and their bank 1890–1990. Bank Julius Baer, Zurich 1990.
- The Inside Of Guilt: Life Story Of An Alcoholic. Aare, Solothurn 1991, ISBN 3-7260-0370-3 . (4th, revised edition: Oesch, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-0350-2009-4 )
- The talking machines. Studer-Revox. The life's work of audio pioneer Willi Studer . Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-7263-6713-6 .
- with Gabriele Fricker: of my own free will. Oesch Verlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85833-531-2 .
- The incredible: The murderous life of Werner Ferrari. Oesch, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-0350-2001-9 .
- The price of desperation: About the cost consequences of suicide in Switzerland. (PDF; 421 kB). Swiss Society for the European Convention on Human Rights SGEMKO, Zurich 2003.
- The Zollikerberg murder. In: Peter Röthlisberger (Hrsg.): Scandals - What moved Switzerland in the last 20 years. Orell-Füssli Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-280-06052-4 .
- La fede tra miracoli - Le incongruenze di Bernadette. Editore Reset, Rome 2008
- The Dignitas-Forum: An internet forum as an instrument of suicide attempt prophylaxis. (PDF; 728 kB). Ed: Dignitas - Live humanely - Die humanely, Forch-Zurich 2013.
literature
- Alex Baur : Obituary. In: Weltwoche No. 4 of January 24, 2019, p. 15. ( Online, for a fee) .
- Thomas Isler: Only committed to the truth. In: NZZ am Sonntag of January 27, 2019, p. 23 ( online)
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Holenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Peter Holenstein in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary in the Tages-Anzeiger from January 24, 2019.
- ↑ Dominique Strebel, Christoph Schilling: Battle of the arbitrary. In: Observer of December 28, 2006.
- ↑ Death: Journalist Peter Holenstein has died. In: persoenlich.com . January 22, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holenstein, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adliswil |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 2019 |
| Place of death | Zurich |