Tom Wittgen

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Tom Wittgen (pseudonym of Ingeburg Siebenstädt ; born April 26, 1932 in Wittgensdorf near Chemnitz ) is a German crime writer.

Life

Siebenstädt attended elementary school / elementary school in Wittgensdorf, worked in agriculture and attended the seminar for women's social professions in Chemnitz, which she completed with the state examination. Then she enrolled at the Workers and Farmers Faculty in Leipzig and made up her Abitur there. She then studied German language and literature in Leipzig and Berlin and completed her studies with a state examination with a degree in German. After her studies she worked as a reporter editor for radio ( Radio GDR ), later she worked for several years as a publishing editor at the publishing house Das Neue Berlin , especially in the field of crime literature .

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From 1970 she worked as a freelance writer and lived in Berlin. Later that year she published several Blaulicht stories under her author's name Tom Wittgen . This was followed by crime novels such as The Second Ring , Intimate Sphere , The Gentle Girl and The Black Peter Game in the DIE series of the publishing house Das Neue Berlin, in which most of her other crime novels also appeared. She also wrote the scripts for some of the Police Call 110 episodes. The crime literature brought her the name "the Agatha Christie of the GDR " . Your serial hero was first lieutenant (later captain) Simosch during the GDR era. She also wrote works of other genres, e.g. B. the adventure novel The Singing Dove , children's books such as The Sheriff's Brother and finally Eismeerdrift , a historical novel about the sinking of the Jeannette expedition .

Translations of her novels were published in Hungary , Poland , the ČSSR and the USSR before the fall of the Wall . After the fall of the Wall, the first editions of her books fell from 100,000 to 5,000 copies. She could no longer make a living from writing novels alone. In addition to new novels, she wrote at least one television script after 1990. Her last publication appeared in 1999. In 2010 she worked on the novel manuscript Frühzeit .

Since 2002 she has lived near Potsdam .

Prizes and awards

For her life's work, Ingeburg Siebenstädt was awarded the Ehren-Glauser , the “Krimi-Oscar” of the guild, in 1994 by the authors' group of German crime literature Das Syndikat .

Works

Detective novels

  • 1967 The attack ( blue light No. 80)
  • 1967 change of scenery (blue light no.82)
  • 1968 The Suspicion (Blue Light No. 91)
  • 1969 In the triangle . German Military Publishing House (Narrator Series No. 150)
  • 1970 The second ring (DIE 074)
  • 1970 Ten years for the first ... (Blaulicht Nr. 113)
  • 1970 The eagle owl looks into the vodka glass (blue light No. 122)
  • 1971 Empty corridors . German Military Publishing House (Narrator Series No. 178)
  • 1972 decoy (blue light no.132)
  • 1972 The open door (blue light No. 138)
  • 1973 privacy (DIE 173)
  • 1973 A little alibi (blue light No. 149)
  • 1974 The man with the traveling lord (blue light no.156 )
  • 1975 The gentle girl (DIE 228)
  • 1975 Shadows in the Green (Blue Light No. 162)
  • 1976 Little Bell (blue light no.170)
  • 1977 The farewell letter (blue light no.183)
  • 1978 depth test (DIE 383)
  • 1981 Herbstzeitlose (DIE 480)
  • 1982 The False Madonna (DIE 526)
  • 1983 The Black Peter Game (DIE 573)
  • 1983 Jump Over Your Shadow (Blue Light No. 224)
  • 1985 Shadows in the Green (crime stories), Das Neue Berlin
  • 1985 The silent house . Tribüne Verlag, Berlin / GDR series of offers
  • 1986 The Nest (DIE)
  • 1988 The goatherd / The last S-Bahn (two stories; DIE)
  • 1990 Nabob's daughter (DIE)
  • 1991 A dirty story . Reiher-Verlag, Berlin, Reiher Crime
  • 1992 state hunt . Verlag am Galgenberg, Hamburg OA HC
  • 1993 pilot game . Verlag am Galgenberg, OA HC
  • 1994 Ingeburg Siebenstädt: Kathrin and Abel (Bastei Lübbe 19587) OA
  • 1994 death in the rain . (THE 168) OA
  • 1996 Crossbody - The wrestling crime thriller . Argument Second row OA
  • 1998 red light (Econ List Verlag, ISBN 3-612-25165-1 )
  • 1999 The very last voyage of the admiral ( chain novel by Jürgen Alberts , Jürgen Ebertowski , Jan Eik , Dorothea Kleine , -ky , Wolfgang Kienast , Gerhard Neumann , Tom Wittgen, Gabriele Wolff ). Ullstein 24379, OA

Other books

  • 1974: Rumble ride to Hammelspring . Children's book publisher, Berlin / GDR
  • 1979: The sheriff's brother . Children's book publisher, Berlin / GDR
  • 1978: The ripped jacket . Young World, Berlin / GDR
  • 1979: Arctic drift . The New Berlin, Berlin / GDR
  • 1976: The singing dove . The New Berlin, Berlin / GDR
  • 1980: Borstel and the old pine . Young World, Berlin / GDR
  • 1988: Das Wagnis or In Motzbach and elsewhere . Grandstand, Berlin / GDR

Scripts

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reading by Ingeburg Siebenstädt. In: Potsdamer Latest News , March 27, 2010, online , accessed on August 16, 2019
  2. ↑ Laureate of the Friedrich Glauser Prize ( Memento from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wittgen, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siebenstädt, Ingeburg (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crime and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittgensdorf near Chemnitz