Roger Graf

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Roger Graf (born November 27, 1958 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer . He is best known as the author of the radio play The Hair-raising Cases of Philip Maloney .

biography

Roger Graf was born in Zurich on November 27, 1958 and comes from an Italian family. His parents separated when he was two years old and so he and his sister grew up with his grandmother, mother and uncle. It wasn't until 12 years later that he saw his father again for the first time. Graf went to primary and secondary school in Zurich and was under guardianship until 20 years. At the age of 12 he began to write his first scary stories and told his classmates imaginative stories.

From 1975 to 1977 Graf did an apprenticeship as a sports goods seller, although according to his own statements this was only an emergency solution. Around the age of 16 and 17, he experienced alcohol and other drugs and had thoughts of suicide . He began therefore poems to write and showed it to others.

In the early 80s he took on various temporary jobs and published his first articles in literary magazines. In the magazine Drehpunkt three articles incorrectly appeared under the name Roger Grab . In Berlin Graf worked on two novels at the literary colloquium Wannsee . In 1981 Graf wrote a radio play for Radio DRS on the subject of sporting goods sales and founded a film club in Zurich. The radio play An Island That Doesn't Exist was created in 1981. Graf was a freelance film critic until 1984 and from 1985 he was editor of the magazine TELL . Because the money ran out, the Tell died and a follow-up project also failed.

In 1986 he worked as an editor for "Word Entertainment" at Radio DRS. Until 1988 he wrote skits and other texts for Radio DRS 1 and 3 . It was here that work began on the " hair-raising cases of Philip Maloney, " which went on air a year later. In 1990 Graf published two card games and in 1992 the first book on Maloney was published. Various readings and television appearances followed over the next few years . In 1996, Zürich bei Nacht was published , and in the same year he received the Burgdorfer Krimipreis for Tödliche certainty (published in 1997 as a paperback). In 1999 the novel Tanz an der Limmat was published . Until 2009, the main focus of Graf's activities was on readings in Switzerland.

Awards

Works

Roger Graf is the author of over 300 episodes of The Hair-raising Cases of Philip Maloney . This series has been broadcast on Sundays since 1989 by the radio station Radio SRF 3 (formerly DRS 3 ).

Radio plays

  • The Hair-raising Cases of Philip Maloney (crime series since 1989)
  • The Island That Doesn't Exist (1981)
  • Mad Heroes (1994)

Detective novels

  • Ticket to Eternity (1994)
  • Deadly Certainty (1995)
  • Zurich by night (1996)
  • Ticket to Eternity (1996)
  • Dance on the Limmat (1997)
  • Deadly Certainty (1997)
  • Zurich by night (1998)
  • Short exit (1998)
  • Dance on the Limmat (1999)
  • The corpse in the moor (1999)
  • The Womper (1999)
  • Short finish (2000)
  • To the Cuckoo (2000)
  • The Woman at the Window (2003)
  • Zurich by night (2003)
  • BoD dance on the Limmat (2003)
  • Hairy Times (2004)
  • The man at the garden fence (2008)
  • The Right Hand (2012)
  • The Fair Death (2014)

Plays

  • Under the Bridge (2001)
  • The big hit (2002)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography. In: Roger Graf - writer. Retrieved May 19, 2012 .
  2. ^ Burgdorfer Krimipreis. In: Literature Prize Winner - Excellent Authors and Books. Retrieved May 19, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b Roger Graf. In: Crime Couch. Retrieved May 19, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Short biography. (PDF; 22 kB) In: SkyBeam. P. 3 , accessed on May 19, 2012 .
  5. ^ Maloney author Roger Graf receives the Zurich Radio Prize 2010. In: DRS. Retrieved May 19, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Count, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich