Stefan Brockhoff
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
- Dieter Cunz (1910–1969),
- Richard Plant (1910-1998) and
- Oskar Seidlin (1911-1984).
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
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Music in the Totengässlein. Detective novel , Goldmann, Bern / Leipzig / Vienna 1936 and Munich 1954
- NA as music in the Totengäßlein. Detective novel , Chronos (Swiss texts, vol. 25), Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-03-400833-4 (extended version 2008: ISBN 978-3-0340-0912-6 )
- 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
- Literature by and about Stefan Brockhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.krimilexikon.de/brockhoff.htm Ten Commandments for the detective novel
- ↑ Lt. Lexicon of German-language crime writers , rev. 2nd edition, Munich 2005