Ralf Kramp

Ralf Kramp

Ralf Kramp (born November 29, 1963 in Euskirchen ) is a German author, caricaturist, archivist and publisher.

Life

Ralf Kramp was born on November 29, 1963 in Euskirchen and attended the Archbishopric Konvikt in Bad Münstereifel . After graduating from high school, he first learned the profession of painter and varnisher. As a freelance cartoonist, he works a. a. for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .

In 1996 he made his debut with the detective novel Tief unterm Laub . Since then, new crime novels have appeared almost every year in the KBV-Verlag , which he has been running since 2002 , and most of them are based in the Eifel . His series about the odd investigator Herbie Feldmann now comprises seven volumes. Kramp is a member of the Syndikat (association of German-speaking crime writers).

Together with his wife Monika, Kramp heads the criminal investigation center in Hillesheim , which also houses the German Crime Archives with around 30,000 volumes, the largest coherent collection of German-language crime literature.

Ralf Kramp has two sons from his first marriage and lives in Flesten in the Vulkaneifel .

Awards

• 1996 Award at the Eifel Literature Festival "in recognition of its wealth of historical associations and its coherent construction".
• 2002 Culture Prize of the Euskirchen District .
• 2010 Herzogenrath handcuffs for his murderous short stories

Works

Single track

• Deep under the leaves. (1996) ISBN 978-3-934638-11-2
• Crackhead. (1997) ISBN 978-3-934638-25-9
• Jet black. (1998) ISBN 978-3-934638-35-8
• The ninth death. (1999) ISBN 978-3-934638-44-0
• Still and rigid. (2000) ISBN 978-3-934638-51-8
• ... because David has to die. (2001) ISBN 978-3-934638-82-2
• Shortly before the end. (Short Crime Collection) (2001) ISBN 978-3-934638-99-0
• Picturesque murders. (2002) ISBN 978-3-934638-59-4
• Close to the limit. (2003) ISBN 978-3-937001-00-5
• A quarter pound of murder. (Short Crime Collection) (2003) ISBN 978-3-937001-38-8
• The Black Shamrock 1 - When Goldfinger comes out. (Kinderkrimi) (2004) ISBN 978-3-937001-30-2
• A cold house. (2004) ISBN 978-3-937001-09-8
• Hotel Terminus. (Joint novel by Regula Venske, Silvia Kaffke, HP Karr, Edith Kneifl, Ralf Kramp, Christine Lehmann, Birgit H. Hölscher, Horst Eckert, Roger M. Fiedler, Peter Zeindler, Jürgen Alberts and Walter Wehner) (structure) (2005)
• The Black Shamrock 2 - Three mysterious keys. (Kinderkrimi) (2005) ISBN 978-3-937001-48-7
• Dancers of death. (2006) ISBN 978-3-937001-62-3
• The black shamrock 3 - The double professor. (Kinderkrimi) (2008) ISBN 978-3-940077-09-7
• Eifeler Herd is worth gold. (together with Annette Hartmann) (2008)
• Murder Christmas. (with Monica Mirelli and Carsten Sebastian Henn ) (2008) ISBN 978-3-940077-38-7
• Night together. (Short Crime Collection) (2008) ISBN 978-3-937001-89-0
• Murder Easter. (with Monica Mirelli and Carsten Sebastian Henn) (2009) ISBN 978-3-940077-57-8
• The blue Knut. (Children's book, text and illustrations) (2009)
• Murder Mother's Day. (with Monica Mirelli and Carsten Sebastian Henn) (2010) ISBN 978-3-940077-81-3
• Voices in the forest. (2010) ISBN 978-3-940077-43-1
• Right on target. (Collection of short crime stories) (2010) ISBN 978-3-940077-95-0
• Murder birthday. (with Monica Mirelli and Carsten Sebastian Henn) (2011) ISBN 978-3-942446-18-1
• Eifel night. (Short Stories) (2011) ISBN 978-3-942446-35-8
• Line wise doubtful. (Illustrated book caricatures from the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger 1990-2011) (2011) ISBN 978-3-942446-36-5
• The black clover leaf 4 - On the trail of the volcano magician. (Kinderkrimi) (2012) ISBN 978-3-940077-98-1
• Strong finish. (Collection of short crime stories) (2012) ISBN 978-3-942446-59-4
• Voices in the forest. (New edition) Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt (2012) ISBN 978-3-596-19381-3
• Voices in the forest. (New edition) Collector's Edition Weltbild (2013) BN0433
• Murder wedding. (with Monica Mirelli and Carsten Sebastian Henn) (2013) ISBN 978-3-942446-88-4
• 8. (Detective novel, together with Jürgen Kehrer, Sandra Lüpkes, Tatjana Kruse, Peter Godazgar, Sabine Trinkaus, Carsten Sebastian Henn and Kathrin Heinrichs) (2013) ISBN 978-3-942446-91-4
• Murder and Totlach. (Short Stories) (2014) ISBN 978-3-95441-196-2
• Deadwood. (2015) ISBN 978-3-942446-44-0
• Your murder, my lord: Lord Merridew is investigating. (2016) ISBN 978-3-95441-319-5
• Evening song. (2017) ISBN 978-3-95441-357-7
• More dead than ever. (2017) ISBN 978-3-95441-483-3
• From a dark sky. (2018) ISBN 978-3-95649-835-0
• Murder with a view of the Eifel '. (2019) ISBN 978-3-95441-462-8
• Short and headless. (2020) ISBN 978-3-95441-483-3

Editions

• Dusk. (KBV) (together with Manfred Lang) (1999)
• The holiday thriller 2000. (Joke) (2000)
• Dusk 2. (KBV) (together with Manfred Lang) (2001)
• Murder After Eight. (Joke) (2001)
• Death knocks. (Grenz-Echo) (2001)
• From murder to murder. (Joke) (2001)
• The Holiday Crime 2001. (Joke) (2001)
• Death occurs. (Grenz-Echo) (2002)
• The Holiday Crime 2002. (Joke) (2002)
• At 66, that's when the killing begins. (Joke) (2002)
• Spring, summer, autumn and murder. (Grenz-Echo) (2003)
• Dusk 3rd (KBV) (together with Manfred Lang) (2007)
• Murder Landscapes 6 - North Eifel Mordeifel. (KBV) (2010)
• Crime scene Eifel 3rd (KBV) (2011)
• Crime scene Eifel 4. (KBV) (2013)
• Black Death. (KBV) (2014)
• Murder Landscapes 20 - Murderous Moselle Valley. (KBV) (2014)

Radio plays

• Bruno (DRS, Swiss radio) (2011)
• Felt on the tooth (DRS, Schweizer Radio) (2011)

Audio books

• Deep under the leaves. (read by Stephan Benson ) (Klein and Blechinger) (1997)
• Crackhead. (read by Kalle Pohl and Jürg Löw) (KBV) (2004)
• Jet black. (read by Kalle Pohl and Jürg Löw) (KBV) (2005)
• A quarter pound of murder. (Author reading) (KBV) (2005)
• Deep under the leaves. (radioropa) (2006)
• Still and rigid. (radioropa) (2006)
• The ninth death. (read by Kalle Pohl and Jürg Löw) (KBV) (2006)
• Coffee - A mixture of literature containing caffeine. (R. Kramp and others) (O-Ton Prod.) (2007)
• Picturesque murders. (read by Kalle Pohl and Jürg Löw) (KBV) (2007)
• Pretty dead. (Ralf Kramp and Jürgen Ehlers) (KBV) (2007)
• Tea - a stimulating infusion to listen to. (R. Kramp and others) (O-Ton Prod.) (2007)
• Murderous lust - women murder differently. (R. Kramp and others) (The Hörverlag)
• When Goldfinger comes out. (radioropa) (2008)
• Three mysterious keys. (radioropa) (2008)
• The double professor. (radioropa) (2008)
• Mords Eifel. (R. Kramp and others) (radioropa) (2009)
• Voices in the forest. (radioropa) (2010)
• Beer stories - stories and poems, fresh from the brewery. (R. Kramp and others) (O-Ton Prod.) (2011)
• Dusk. (R. Kramp and others) (Navarra) (2011)
• The dear car - stories of bowls and speedsters. (R. Kramp and others) (O-Ton Prod.) (2013)
• Deadwood. (KBV) (2015)
• In the truest sense of murder - Ralf Kramp reads bitter stories. (KBV) (2018)

further activities

• 2006–2011 member of the Focus Online Murder Commission , which reviewed new crime novels on a weekly basis.
• 2013 initiator of the crime camp , during which eight German crime writers retired to a villa in Radekow , Brandenburg, for eight days and wrote novel 8 together .
• In 2013 and 2014, together with Eva Lirot and Hughes Schlueter, Kramp was the author of the official ARD online crime thriller at the Frankfurt Book Fair .
• He moderates gala and crime events at various crime festivals ( Criminale , Mord am Hellweg , Gießener Krimifestival, Nordeifel Mordeifel).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ralf Kramp in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Ralf Kramps website
• Der Spiegel 40/2000 - Longing for black and white - Agency Blutspur - crime weekends in the Eifel
• Wirtschaftsblatt - Ralf Kramp on the Eifel crime scene
• WDR3 - radio feature by Ulrich Land about the regional thriller with Ralf Kramp and Lucie Flebbe
• SWR television - studio guest Ralf Kramp

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 240 drawings that “pinch”. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger online. November 13, 2011, accessed October 28, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Ralf Kramp. (No longer available online.) In: das-syndikat.com. Archived from the original on October 29, 2014 ; Retrieved October 29, 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.  
3. ^ The Hillesheim detective house. In: eifel.info. Retrieved July 1, 2018 . 
4. ^ German Crime Archives. In: kriminalhaus.de. Retrieved October 28, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Ralf Kramp. In: NRW literature on the net . Westphalian Literature Office in Unna e. V., August 24, 2011, accessed October 28, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Herzogenrath handcuffs. The previous winners. In: herziehrather-handschelle.de. Pro Stadtbücherei e. V., Friends of the Herzogenrath City Library, accessed on October 28, 2014 . 
7. ↑ The authors of the Crime Days North Eifel -Mordeifel 2014. Crime Days in the Eifel crime scene. In: nordeifel-mordeifel.de. Retrieved October 28, 2014 .