Reiner M. Sowa

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Reiner M. Sowa (born January 17, 1959 ) is a German writer who, with his detective novels about the undertaker Ulrich Schwartz, is considered the inventor of the undertaker novels.

Life

Reiner M. Sowa graduated from the University of Cologne with a degree in administrative management and was active as a chief detective in drug searches and death investigations . Later he taught as a lecturer at training institutes for the police and the technical college for public administration. On behalf of the UN , he founded the Police Academy for Sarajevo / Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1997 .

With his novels, the protagonist of which is an undertaker, he founded a new crime genre, the undertaker crime novel. His novel A Undertaker in a Dark Past was translated into French and published by the Paris publishing house Gallimard . He reports on his research trips in various newspaper media. Since 2000 he has lived as a freelance author in the Bergisches Land and in southern France .

As a result of his research on the novel A Undertaker and the Duck Testament , the author immersed himself in classic car technology and has been organizing classic car mechanic courses since 2013 in addition to his work as a writer.

Works

Novels

  • A Undertaker Goes to Hell (2000)
  • A Undertaker in a Dark Past (2002)
  • Whore Commissioner (2007)
  • A Undertaker and the Duck Testament (2009)
  • A Undertaker on the Run (2014)

Short stories

  • Madness in Goch (2002)
  • Dortmund Deal (2002)
  • Corpse Ash (2004)
  • Never Again Norddeich (2005)
  • Hi Papa! (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An exciting start to the literary days . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on January 14, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of February 10, 2017
  3. ^ Alfred Miersch: The surveys - by Gisela Lehmer-Kerkloh and Thomas Przybilka. Alligator papers. In: www.bokas.de. Retrieved January 14, 2017 .
  4. ^ Fabian Hoberg: Writer gives mechanics courses for ducks . In: THE WORLD . December 14, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed December 17, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Sowa, Reiner M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1959