Peter Schrenk

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Peter Schrenk (born June 8, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German writer .

Life

Peter Schrenk is the son of an actor couple . He grew up in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . After his mother's death, he moved to his father in Hamburg in 1958 . He attended the Odenwald School and completed an apprenticeship as an advertising clerk from 1961 to 1963 . After a failed attempt to join the French Foreign Legion , Schrenk returned to Germany and worked in track construction, as a machine operator, needle worker and warehouse worker. From 1963 to 1967 he was a soldier in the Bundeswehr ; He then attended drama schools in Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main , where he was active, among other things, in the Socialist German Student Union . From 1968 to 1975 he was head of studies in market research , from 1976 to 1981 he worked for a bank in Cologne and from 1981 marketing manager for companies in the automotive supply industry . During a study visit to the University of Maryland , he heard lectures in German and literary criticism .

Peter Schrenk is the author of crime novels and screenplays . In 1990 he received a work grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He also works as an actor in the theater and has played minor film and television roles.

Schrenk lives in Düsseldorf . Among other things, he worked for the African Angel (2006 to 2011) and the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (2006 to 2010). Since December 12, 2012, Peter Schrenk has been chairman of the newly founded Heinestadt Düsseldorf eV association

Works

  • A strange death. Munich 1988.
  • Vitus H. Benedict: Without commitment. Munich 1989.
  • ... and then Berlin. Munich 1990.
  • The Reading Conference. Zurich 1992.
  • Sanger's curse. Berlin 1998.
  • Fat sand. Düsseldorf 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Schrenk, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin