Tatjana Kruse

Tatjana Kruse (born February 20, 1960 in Kirchheim / Teck ) is a German writer .

Life

Tatjana Kruse grew up in Schwäbisch Hall . She worked as a literary translator for many years (including Jeffrey Archer , Sadie Matthews and Shirley MacLaine ) before writing short detective stories from 1996 onwards. She received the Marlowe Prize of the Raymond Chandler Society for her first short thriller, “Cool Man Strikes” , and her story “Porentief rein” won the Fancy Media Prize .

She has also been writing detective novels since 2000. In 2005 she received the “Nordfalls Prize” and became a crime writer for Flensburg. Her short crime stories have already been translated into Korean , Bulgarian and English , and her detective novel “Wuchtbrummenalarm” was also published in Russian.

She is a member of the “ Syndikat ” and regularly appears at major crime events such as the “Criminale”, “Mord am Hellweg”, the “Munich crime festival”, “Zurich reads”, the “Vienna crime night”, the Salzburg crime festival “PENG! "Or the" Ostfriesischen Krimitagen ". She is also a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works (selection)

• Die Wuchtbrumme , S. Fischer Verlag , 2000, ISBN 978-3-596-14704-5 .
• Attention: Wuchtbrumme , Goldmann Verlag , 2001, ISBN 978-3-442-44994-1 .
• Das Buch der Fülle , Frauenoffensive, 2001, ISBN 978-3-88104-340-3 .
• The heavy hum is back , Goldmann Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-442-45266-8 .
• Wuchtbrummenalarm , Goldmann Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-442-45528-7 .
• Das Buch der Kraft , Frauenoffensive, 2004, ISBN 978-3-88104-366-3 .
• Kiss me honey , Goldmann Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-442-46164-6 .
• Tatort Niederrhein II , Leporello, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936783-24-7 .
• Caution: steps! , Swiridoff- Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89929-113-1 .
• How do you steal an island? , Leda-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934927-96-4 .
• Only a dead painter is a good painter , Leda-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-939689-26-3 .
• Cross stitch, bee sting, heart stitch: Commissioner Seifferheld determined , Droemer Knaur Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-50367-6 .
• Close the flap, husband dead , KBV, 2010, ISBN 978-3-940077-82-0
• Needle, thread, cleaver: Commissioner Seifferheld determined , Droemer Knaur Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-50428-4
• Short story in Young man wanted to travel with by Anne Hertz , Knaur Verlag 3/2012
• Finger, hat and devil brood: Commissioner Seifferheld investigates , Droemer Knaur Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-51050-6
• Every man a hit , Droemer Knaur Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-22625-4
• Kalte Platte , KBV Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-942446-63-1
• Embroidered, stuffed, butchered: Commissioner Seifferheld investigates , 2013, Knaur Verlag
• Embroidery, knitting, strangling: Commissioner Seifferheld determines , 2014, Knaur Verlag, ISBN 978-3-426-51428-3
• Death embroidered with: Commissioner Seifferheld determined , 2015, Knaur Verlag, ISBN 978-3-426-51429-0
• Dig up grandpa! , 2014, Haymon Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85218-956-7
• A little man hangs in the forest , 2015, KBV Verlag, ISBN 978-3-9544123-5-8
• Murder on encore! , 2015, Haymon Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85218-977-2
• Glitzer, Glamor, Wasserleiche , 2016, Haymon Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85218-978-9
• It wasn't the gardener , 2017, Insel Verlag, ISBN 978-3-458-36265-4
• Mermaids Murder Better , 2018, Insel Verlag, ISBN 978-3-458-36355-2
• Some like it dead , 2019, Insel Verlag, ISBN 978-3-458-36410-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Tatjana Kruse in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage
• The Syndicate - Association of all German-speaking crime authors
• Lexicon of German crime authors