Regional thriller
A regional thriller (short: Regiokrimi ) is a sub-genre of the crime novel . Regional crime stories are also known as local crime stories or local crime stories . Your action takes place in a certain region , usually a city. A characteristic of a regional thriller is an investigator who is more or less connected to his homeland. Often native character types and clichés are processed. Smaller, regionally operating publishers and nationally less well-known authors often use the term Regiokrimi to advertise . So they are especially appealing to readers who are not primarily for the actual act of thrillers interest, but also for their own region or their city where they want to find the novel's plot and Handlungsort know. The region or city mostly mentioned in the subtitle is described with its good and bad sides. Often, scenic features, buildings, well-known personalities or historical events of the city or region in question are included in the plot, for example if a well-known object is stolen from a local museum or the plot takes place in a famous building in the city.
The authors of the novels often come from the region themselves or have a relationship there; the spectrum ranges from well-known, professional writers to people who write more as a leisure activity.
Structure of regional crime novels
Depending on the local color, regional thrillers can be divided into city thrillers (e.g. Würzburg thriller, Berlin thriller), regional thrillers (e.g. Alpine thriller, Frankish thriller, Eifel thriller) and thrillers on the water (such as island thrillers, main thriller, Rhine thriller, North Sea thriller). The big cities of Berlin, Munich and Hamburg as well as East Friesland and the Eifel are popular locations for city crime thrillers, as an evaluation of 3400 local crime stories by the online community BücherTreff shows.
Publishing history of regional crime novels
At the end of the 1980s, Grafit Verlag ( Dortmund ) published original German crime novels with German scenes for the first time in large numbers. They were called regional crime novels, as opposed to American or English detective novels with regional settings in America or England. After the German crime novel with German settings became known, the wave of regional crime stories developed from it . Publishers with a focus on regional crime fiction include a. the Emons Verlag ( Cologne ), the Schardt Verlag ( Oldenburg ), the Gmeiner-Verlag ( Meßkirch ), the CW Niemeyer Verlag ( Hameln ) and the Silberburg-Verlag ( Tübingen ).
Regional crime writers by region
The following list is not intended to be exhaustive, but is a representative selection. Only authors with their own article are accepted.
Web links
- Joachim Feldmann: Görlitz is still free of crime - every German nest has its investigators. Who still wants to read the regional thrillers? (in: Die Welt, March 5, 2011, p. 5.)
- Franziska Gerlach: The boom of regional thrillers The boom of regional thrillers ( Memento from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Matthias Stolz: Regional thrillers. In: time. January 16, 2013 (with card)
- Detective stories from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Just no regional thriller! on krimi-couch.de (with crime thriller maps Germany, Austria and Switzerland)
- regiokrimi.de
- Hendrik Gerstung: This is where the most popular regional thrillers play (Audible Magazine, September 28, 2017, with infographics and statistics)
- Over 5,700 local thrillers from DE / AT / CH
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article: The German Regional Crime . Media-Mania.de. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ↑ Achim Schmidtmann: Regional Krimis - Krimis from the different regions of Germany. In: www.regiokrimi.de. Retrieved November 23, 2016 .
- ^ Lothar Schröder: Düsseldorf is so murderous. In: www.infranken.de. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .