Rob Alef

Rob Alef , actually Ralf Oberndörfer (* 1965 in Nuremberg ), is a German writer who has written several detective novels.

Oberndörfer works as a freelance lawyer and legal historian . He also writes satires for Die Tageszeitung and for Eulenspiegel . He lives in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Until 2018, he ran the football blog Volk ohne Territorial for twelve years .

Four of his novels were published by Rotbuch Verlag , three of which were later published as paperbacks by Unionsverlag . In 2009, his novel The Magic Year was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize in the Best Novel category. In this detective novel, based on a current murder case, the story of the 1968 movement is retold, with Rob Alef starting from the hypothesis that the 1968 movement prevailed against state power. Like all crime novels by Rob Alef, the novel is a mixture of crime novel and satire, whereby it also uses elements of the fantastic. In The Magic Year, rescue penguins with whiskey names play an important role.

Novels

• Bang-bang dies . Shayol, Berlin 2005 ISBN 978-3-926126-44-3
• The magical year . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-86789-025-0
• The wolves . Egmont / VGS, Cologne 2009 ISBN 978-3-8025-1792-1
• Little beasts . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-86789-136-3
• Always stay greedy . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-86789-184-4
• Copy shop . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-86789-586-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Rob Alef in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage

Footnotes

1. ↑ Portrait at the Unionsverlag