Thomas Hoeth

Thomas Hoeth (born August 16, 1962 in Berlin ) is a German journalist , author, filmmaker and writer .

Life

Hoeth has received several awards for his work and won the Stuttgart crime prize for the best German debut in March 2010 with his crime thriller debut "Herbstbotin". He is also nominated for the renowned Glauser Prize . Hoeth is married and lives with his family in Stuttgart .

Hoeth studied politics , economics and philosophy , did an internship at the daily newspaper , graduated from scriptwriting school and has been working as a television journalist for Südwestrundfunk in Stuttgart since 1997 . Since then around 600 contributions have been made for various SWR TV formats (including "Landesschau", "Landesschau Fahrt", "Schlaglicht"), mainly from the fields of culture, politics and business. Hoeth specializes in social issues and describes himself as a "storyteller".

Awards and nominations

In 2010, Hoeth again won the Diakonie Journalism Prize in the “Television” category with his portrait of Sister Margret from Stuttgart. Sister Margret is the contact point for the homeless, goes to discos to convince young people that they should live without alcohol, and reports in schools about her experiences. The TV portrait "Sister Margaret's Mission" by Thomas Hoeth convinced the jury because it was very empathetic, close to the life and mission of Sister Margaret. The report shows many extraordinary images of working with the homeless and addicts and does not leave out any topics. Even the question of how Sister Margaret treats men is taken up. The film ran on SWR television in the evening program on July 17, 2009 and was repeated several times in other ARD stations.

Thomas Hoeth was previously nominated for the international script award "Weitwinkel" (2003), won the Diakonie Journalistenpreis (2007), took second place at the Caritas Journalistenpreis (2008) and was nominated again in 2009 for the Diakonie Prize.

On March 8, 2010, he received the first Stuttgart Crime Prize for the best German-language debut. The well-known authors Ulrich Ritzel (for “Beifang”) and Heinrich Steinfest (for “Thunderstorm over Pluto”) were honored with him.

In addition, Hoeth is nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2010 in the category “Debut” by the “ Syndikat ”, the group of authors who write German-language crime literature . The important prize will be presented on September 11, 2010 at the “ Criminale ”.

In 2016 he received the Willi Bleicher Prize in the television category for the contribution Refugees - can we really do it? .

Works (selection)

"Herbstbotin" (Silberburg-Verlag Tübingen ) is a fast-paced regional thriller , the focus of which is the former LKA target investigator Amon Trester. Mentally broken by what he had to experience during the “ German Autumn ”, the private detective sets out on a search for clues through southwest Germany. Together with the journalist Katja Gütle, of all people , he is looking for Katja's mother, a RAF terrorist from the very beginning who has been in hiding for decades but is still alive.

Hoeth develops an exciting chase, but leaves his protagonist enough space, depth and profile to gain. The encounter with his former colleagues from the State Criminal Police Office in particular is a multi-layered mosaic of betrayal, corruption, obsession with power and deadly madness.

"Erblast", the second case of the Stuttgart private detective Amon Trester, was published on October 1, 2010 by Silberburg-Verlag.

At Emons, Hoeth is one of the authors of the short crime collection "To the Last Drop". Other authors include Horst Eckert, Martina Fiess, Monika Geier, Brigitte Glaser, Carsten Sebastian Henn, Elisabeth Herrmann, Silvija Hinzmann, Thomas Hoeth, Regine Kölpin, Tatjana Kruse, Christine Lehmann, Ulla Lessmann, Hannes Nygaard, Heidi Rehn, Britt Reißmann and Nina Schindler.

His most recent work is the historical novel Dem Himmel fallen in 2012 (Silberburg-Verlag). A novel about Johannes Kepler .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.diakonie-wuerttemberg.de/presse-und-aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/detailansicht/newsID/750/back/31/
2. ↑ Willi Bleicher Prize 2016