Stefan Ummenhofer

Stefan Ummenhofer (right) with Alexander Rieckhoff after a reading

Stefan Ummenhofer (* 1969 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a German author and journalist .

Life

Ummenhofer grew up in Villingen-Schwenningen and completed a traineeship with the daily newspaper Schwarzwälder Bote after high school and community service . There he also worked as an editor before studying political science and history in Freiburg, Vienna and Bonn. He did his doctorate with Peter Brandt at the Fernuniversität Hagen ( Dr. phil.

Ummenhofer worked as a research assistant in the Bundestag and as a journalist for the German Press Agency and the ZDF, among others .

He lives as an editor and author near Freiburg.

Together with Alexander Rieckhoff , Ummenhofer wrote the Black Forest crime series about the odd teacher and hobby detective Hubertus Hummel and his dodgy journalist friend Klaus Riesle. In the books, regionally specific crime topics such as the Swabian-Alemannic Carnival in “Fools” or the cuckoo clocks in “Black Forest Riddles” are mixed with humor and bizarre nature. After the first books at Romäus Verlag had above-average success, Piper-Verlag signed the duo. The seventh Hummel case with the title "Honey Sweet Death" appeared there in 2009. In October 2010, the eighth case, called "Toxic Mushroom", followed about a murder in a Black Forest health clinic. A year later, "Höhenschwindel" appeared, in which a climber dies on a mystical rock.

Ummenhofer is also the author of a book on the criminal investigation program Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved with the title "Crime, Controversy, Cult" and other criminal and scientific books.

Books

General

• 2000: Towards stepping side by side? SPD and Catholic Church since 1957 (logos) ISBN 3-89722-467-4
• 2003: like fire and water? Catholicism and Social Democracy in the Weimar Republic (wvb) ISBN 3-936846-37-5
• 2004: Case number XY… unsolved. Crime, controversy, cult. (together with Michael Thaidigsmann) (Romäus) ISBN 3-9809278-1-4
• 2008: A life in black and white. 100 years FC 08 Villingen (together with Michael Eich and Alexander Rieckhoff) (Romäus) ISBN 978-3-9809278-7-1
• 2008: murders on the doorstep. The most puzzling criminal cases in South Baden (together with Alexander Rieckhoff and Ralf Döbele) (Romäus) ISBN 978-3-9809278-8-8
• 2015: kidnapped and lost? Spectacular cases of kidnapping and hostage-taking (Militzke) ISBN 978-3-86189-859-7

Black Forest crime novels (together with Alexander Rieckhoff)

• 2002: Ice Age. Hummel's first case (Mory's) ISBN 3-9802492-1-2
• 2003: Silent Night. Hummel's second case (Romäus) ISBN 3-9809278-0-6
• 2004: dawn. Hummel's third case (Romäus) ISBN 3-9809278-2-2
• 2005: fooling around. Hummel's fourth case (Romäus) ISBN 3-9809278-3-0
• 2006: Black Forest puzzle. Hummel's fifth case (Romäus) ISBN 978-3-9809278-4-0
• 2007: Ring manhunt. Hummel's sixth case (Romäus) ISBN 978-3-9809278-6-4
• 2009: Honey-sweet death. A Black Forest thriller (Piper) ISBN 978-3-492-25435-9
• 2010: toadstool. A case for Hubertus Hummel (Piper) ISBN 978-3-492-25940-8
• 2011: vertigo. A case for Hubertus Hummel (Piper) ISBN 978-3-492-27288-9
• 2013: Black Forest Beach. A case for Hubertus Hummel (Piper) ISBN 978-3-492-30419-1
• 2015: Black Forest smoke. A case for Hubertus Hummel (Piper) ISBN 978-3-492-30794-9
• 2019: Dead costume: A Black Forest thriller (Bastei Lübbe) ISBN 978-3-431-04131-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Ummenhofer in the catalog of the German National Library
• / Homepage Black Forest crime thriller
• / Interview with Ummenhofer about "Aktenzeichen XY" in "Sonntag aktuell", January 2, 2005 (PDF; 191 kB)
• / Ummenhofer as a guest in the ZDF lunch magazine, January 12, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Südkurier, January 14, 2009 http://www.suedkurier.de/region/schwarzwald-baar-heuberg/villingen-schwennin gen / Krimi-und-Verein-united; art372541,3591886
2. ↑ Brief overview of the content of the Hummel thrillers in the article in the Südwest Presse, November 30, 2007: www.vs-krimi.de/images/neckarquelle1107.pdf