Sven Böttcher

Sven Böttcher (born August 24, 1964 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) is a German writer , translator and screenwriter .

Life

Böttcher is a TV author and producer, including Die Zeit ist reif für Ernst Eiswürfel (ARD), ran fun (Sat.1), Comedy Club (NDR), and Funny Dubbing (Sat.1).

Together with Christian Klippel , Böttcher wrote the crime novels Störmer im Dreck (1989) and Mord between the lines . He is also a co-translator of the German paperback edition of the texts from Monty Python's Flying Circus .

Böttcher is the brother of the musician and author Jens Böttcher .

Works

Books

• Bucket like me (Rosengarten-Sieversen: Creativgarage 1988)
• Störmer im Dreck (with Christian Klippel , Hamburg: Kellner 1989)
• Dangerous aura (Munich: Goldmann 1991)
• Murder Between the Lines (with Christian Klippel, Zurich: Haffmans 1991)
• The trigger (Munich: Goldmann 1992)
• Götterdämmerung (Zurich: Haffmans 1992, TB Rowohlt 2012)
• The deeper meaning of Labenz (with Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, Hamburg: Rogner & Bernhard 1992)
• Old friends (Munich: Goldmann 1993)
• Sherman is dizzy (Munich: Goldmann 1994)
• Held (with Dieter Wedel ) (Hamburg: Wunderlich 1996) ISBN 3-8052-0572-4
• LiebesLeder (with Reinhold Beckmann , Munich: Heyne 1996/2005) ISBN 3-442-30675-2
• Whale on the Net (Munich: Goldmann 1997)
• The climber (Hamburg: Wunderlich 1998)
• Psychopathos (Hamburg; Rogner & Bernhard 2000), TB Heldenherz (Hamburg: Rowohlt 2011)
• A cuckoo child of love (with Katia Böttcher, Munich: Heyne 2005)
• The fifth aircraft (with Mathias Bröckers under the common pseudonym John S. Cooper , Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2007)
• Zero (with Mathias Bröckers under the common pseudonym John S. Cooper , Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2010)
• Prophecy (Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2011)
• Quintessences (Munich: Ludwig 2013)
• Diagnosis: incurable, therapy: self-determined (Munich: Ludwig 2015)
• The whole truth about everything (with Mathias Bröckers, Frankfurt am Main 2016)
• Save yourself who can! (Frankfurt am Main 2019)

Movies

• The time is ripe for Ernst Eiswürfel (BR / WDR 1992–1996, series)
• A cuckoo child of love (ZDF 2005, with Katia Böttcher)
• The Crows (Sat.1 2006)
• Dogs have short legs (ZDF 2006)
• How do you catch your boss (Sat.1 2007)
• Manatu (Sat.1 2007)
• There's only me twice (Sat.1 2012, with Dagmar Rehbinder)
• The Last Bull (Sat.1 2012-2014, series)

Translations

• Marx Brothers : Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel / The Marx Brothers Radio Show . Rogner & Bernhard, Hamburg 1989; released as CD under the title Die Marx Brothers Radio Show , WDR 1989, Altberliner Verlag 2004 (together with Harry Rowohlt )
• Douglas Adams : To Rupert and back . Rogner & Bernhard, 1993.
• Douglas Adams , Mark Carwardine: the last of their kind . Rogner & Bernhard, 1992.
• Groucho Marx : Groucho and me . Rogner & Bernhard, 1995.
• Groucho Marx : Memoirs of a Pointy Rag . Rogner & Bernhard, 1995.
• Raymond Chandler , Robert B. Parker: Lonely Class . Knaus, Munich 1989.

Web links

• Literature by and about Sven Böttcher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sven Böttcher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage of Sven Böttcher
• Entry on Sven Böttcher in the lexicon of German crime fiction authors
• Funny Dubbing: Comedy dubbing pieces / highlights