Stefan Brockhoff

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Stefan Brockhoff is a collective pseudonym under which three German writers published a series of detective and crime novels between 1935 and 1955 at Goldmann Verlag . It is about

Each of the authors emigrated to the USA during the National Socialist era and among other things was also the author of children's books under his own name .

In 1937 the three authors formulated for the "Zürcher Illustrierte" based on the British and American "Commandments for the detective novel" ( e.g. Detection Club ) also "10 Commandments for the detective novel", to which Friedrich Glauser later replied.

title

  • Shot on the stage. Detective novel , Goldmann, Leipzig 1935 and Munich 1954
  • Music in the Totengässlein. Detective novel , Goldmann, Bern / Leipzig / Vienna 1936 and Munich 1954
  • Three kiosks by the lake. Detective novel , Goldmann, Leipzig 1937 and Munich 1954
  • Meeting in Zermatt , Goldmann, Munich 1955

The personal authorship of the individual titles cannot be clearly assigned. Another title, Confusion about Veronika , may have appeared in 1938 as a serial novel in the Zürcher_Illustrierte .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.krimilexikon.de/brockhoff.htm Ten Commandments for the detective novel
  2. Lt. Lexicon of German-language crime writers , rev. 2nd edition, Munich 2005