Reinhard Junge

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Reinhard Junge in Weimar, October 2011

Reinhard Junge (born October 22, 1946 in Dortmund ) is a German author of crime novels and was a co-founder of the SDAJ .

Life

From 1957 Junge attended grammar school in Dortmund, where he wrote his first satires for the school newspaper and in 1965 the first attempt at a novel. He became a high school in 1966 and began studying at the University of Bochum on, but was founded in 1967 by the Bundeswehr for military service in the Infantry Battalion 191 in Ahlen confiscated. There he was detained for 14 days for calling for the foundation of the SDAJ in uniform. In 1968 Junge co-founded the SDAJ . At the same time he worked for the socialist youth magazine elan . At the end of 1968 he continued his German and Russian studies at the Ruhr University. He completed his teaching traineeship in Hattingen .

Because he was a member of the DKP , he fell under the Radicals Decree in 1978 , but was finally able to work as a teacher in Wattenscheid from 1979, also with the help of social democratic comrades who knew that his father had been imprisoned in a concentration camp . To this day he is politically active in the Antifa . Today Junge lives in Bochum and taught German and Latin at the Hellweg School in Bochum- Wattenscheid between 1979 and the beginning of 2012 . He has three children.

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In 1971 he published a critical argument about his military service. In 1978 the first of four books about the neo-Nazi scene was published, for which he had also researched undercover. His first crime novel Klassenfahrt was published in 1985 and has had various reprints since then. Together with Leo P. Ard (alias Jürgen Pomorin ) he created the video team PEGASUS from Dortmund, which has been working in crime novels in the Ruhr area since 1988. In his detective novels, too, Junge often takes up social issues and developments or takes regional people and events as role models or motifs. The long-time mayor of Datteln, Horst Niggemeier , served as a model for the crime series about Datteln's disgust . With their “disgust” novels, Junge and Leo P. Ard sparked several provincial scandals in and around Datteln. He has been writing with his partner Christiane Bogenstahl since 2014. In 2016, the first joint novel Datengrab was published , the plot of which will be continued in 2018 with soul office .

In addition to the novels, there were a number of contributions to crime anthologies. Three of his novels were nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize .

bibliography

Author of crime novels in anthologies:

as co-editor:

  • with Hans-Jürgen Kawalun: Green stuff. Stories from the federal government . Anthology. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1983, ISBN 3-88142-299-4 .

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Junge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Note in biography in: A thousand mountains, a thousand abysses .
    Thomas Meiser: When the red high school teacher tells. From the author's website, August 5, 2002, accessed April 11, 2018.
  2. According to the publisher's press release on axle breakage.