Peter Zeindler

Peter Zeindler (2006)

Peter Zeindler (born February 18, 1934 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist and writer who is particularly well-known as an author of crime novels .

Life

Zeindler first attended the teachers' seminar . He completed his studies in German and art history at the University of Zurich with a doctorate ; the title of his dissertation with Emil Staiger was The negative hero in drama . He worked as a German teacher at grammar school and as a lecturer for German at Goethe Institutes . He has also worked as a journalist, editor and presenter on radio and television. From 1989 he moderated the literary talk show Bernhard-Littéraire in the Bernhard Theater in Zurich .

He is a member of PEN , the AdS authors 'association and the Syndicate crime authors' association .

Awards (selection)

• 1986 German Crime Prize (again in 1988, 1990, 1992)
• 1987 Schiller Prize from the Zürcher Kantonalbank
• 1996 Glauser honorary award for his complete works

Works (selection)

Konrad Sembritzki cycle

• The rings of Saturn. Detective novel . Goldmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-442-05200-9 .
• The circle. Novel . Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02560-1 .
• Counterplay . Novel . Zsolnay, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-552-03923-6 .
• The shadow agent. Novel . Goldmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-442-09970-6 .
• Ordeal by fire. Novel . Goldmann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-442-41318-4 .
• The coffin bouquet or Sophie's first case. Detective novel . Pendragon-Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-86532-093-3 .
• The sleeper. Agent novel . Arche, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7160-2157-1 .
• Murder on the train. Bad stories . Arche, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-7160-2173-3 .
• Expelled. Novel . Arche, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-7160-2188-1 .
• From private ownership. Novel . Arche, Zurich / Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-7160-2247-0 .
• Farewell in Casablanca . Sembritzki on a mission in Morocco. Novel . Arche, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-7160-2274-8 .
• The white Madonna. Reinhardt-Verlag, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-7245-1991-1 . ( Review)

Novels and stories

• Tarot. Detective novel . Goldmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-442-05194-0 .
• Salon with water lilies. Detective novel . Arche, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-7160-2216-0 .
• Whistled. Best of foul play . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-43323-0 .
• The other's smile. Novel . Arche, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-7160-2306-X .
• Dead beach. Novel . Arche, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-7160-2334-5 .
• The creepy eye. Children's thriller . Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-312-00944-8 .
• The desk by the window. Novel . Arche, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-7160-2352-3 .
• Grüezi - Moin, Moin. Scenes from Zurich & Hamburg and Hamburg & Zurich . Arche, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7160-2364-8 .
• The common swift. Novel based on a story by Peter and Christa Gross-Feurich Arche, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7160-2372-3 .
• Tanti Auguri. Detective novel . Walker, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9523436-0-9 .
• The master game. Crime stories . Pendragon-Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-86532-127-5 .

Plays and lyrics

• Animale amoroso . Rhyming texts for the production of the Trio Festivo
• The hermit . Dramatic collage. Premiere: City Theater Bern 1966
• Short circuit . Premiere: Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe 1969
• The spa guest . Premiere: Theater am Hechtplatz , Zurich 1985
• Everything said a hundred times . Chansons for Eva Rieck . Premiere: Hechtplatz, Zurich 1987
• Today I love my carpenter . Chansons for Gabriela Tanner . WP: Keller 62, Zurich 2001
• Intermediate texts for the singing game Erwin and Elmire by Othmar Schoeck . Premiere: Aargauer Kammerorchester, Aarau 2002
• Intermediate texts for the opera Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra by Johann Adolph Hasse . Premiere: Theater Stok , Zurich 2003

Radio plays

• Information . DRS 1972
• Break out . Directed by Walter Baumgarter , DRS 1974
• The master game . SWF 1990
• Old comrades . SWF / SFB 1992
• The expulsion . SWF / SFB 1993
• Duet in Zurich . SWF / SFB 1996
• The handyman . Director: Walter Baumgarter, DRS 1998
• The last course . DRS 2000

TV scripts

• Michael Kehlmann (Director): The Master of Judgment Day . 1988 (based on the novel of the same name by Leo Perutz ).
• Michael Kehlmann: The rings of Saturn . 1990
• Bernhard Giger (Director): Brainwashing . 1993 ( Tatort - episode 276).

literature

• Dietrich Seybold: Peter Zeindler . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 2142.

Web links

• Peter Zeindler in the meta catalog of the Swiss university libraries and the Swiss national library Swissbib
• Publications by and about Peter Zeindler in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Peter Zeindler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief portrait of Zeindler
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• Entry about Peter Zeindler in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Peter Zeindler in the Internet Movie Database (English)