Tristan Irle
Tristan Irle is a regional crime novel series by the German writer Ralf Strackbein . Because of its location in Siegerland , it enjoys many fans there in particular. The series currently (2019) has 29 parts. The 27th volume was published on October 12, 2017 and presented as part of a reading in the Nikolaikirche in Siegen. Volume 28 followed on October 11, 2018. The title hero of the Tristan Irle novels is the fictional Siegerland private detective Tristan Irle, who lives in Siegen's old town. In each volume he clears up a mysterious murder case. The novels mostly relate to current topics (e.g. in Tristan Irle meets the bison , where the crime scene or the main scene is the bison wilderness , which is currently much discussed in the media , or also to the wind power debate in various Siegerland locations in Storm wind ). The volumes are published by Magolves in-house.
characters
The most important characters in the series are briefly described below:
Tristan Irle
Tristan Irle is the title character of the novels. He is described as being in his forties, wearing sweaters and smoking a pipe. His residence, a half-timbered house, is in the old town of Siegen, opposite the Marienkirche. Tristan Irle lives there with Marlowe, his cockatoo.
Chief Inspector Norbert Pfeiffer
Chief Inspector Norbert Pfeiffer and his colleague Werner Holzbaum belong to the Hagen homicide squad. He's a smoker, notorious speedster and doesn't particularly appreciate Tristan Irle. Nevertheless, he would not have been able to solve many of his cases without Tristan Irles' help, which secretly annoys him.
Commissioner Werner Holzbaum
Commissioner Werner Holzbaum is Pfeiffer's colleague and much calmer than him. He grew up on a farm and does not make judgments as hastily as Pfeiffer. Unlike Pfeiffer, he also likes Tristan and his cockatoo.
Young Commissioner Arne Affolderbach
Arne Affolderbach is a young colleague of Pfeiffer and Holzbaum and was born and raised in Siegerland. In contrast to Pfeiffer, he also likes to work with new media. This character first appeared in Volume 21.
Helga Bottenberg
Helga Bottenberg is Tristan's partner and owns a small guesthouse in the Ginsberger Heide. He gets to know her in volume 3 Mord Pur. In most novels, however, it appears more marginally and does not help in solving the murder cases.
Erich Roth
Erich Roth is a deacon of the Marienkirche and Tristan's best friend. He's helped Tristan on some of his cases.
Marlowe
Marlowe is Tristan's cockatoo and his best friend. Tristan got him as a young bird and has lived with him ever since. He taught Marlowe a few sayings from German poets, which the latter can use in the most unsuitable situations.
Further figures (that appear several times)
- Robert Fischer (District Administrator; from Volume 24)
- Otto Otterbach (ex-district administrator)
- Wilhelm Flender (Police Director)
- Friedrich Büdenbender (Public Prosecutor)
- Sina Santes (IT expert; appearances in volumes 7, 11, 14, 20 and 27)
- Wisser Ohm (former agent; appearances in volumes 5, 7, 10, 14, 20 and 26)
- Hans Köhler (Tristan's brother-in-law and Köhler by profession; appearances in volumes 2 and 14)
- Elisabeth Köhler (Tristan's sister; appearances in volumes 2, 14 and 29)
- Sara Köhler (Tristan's niece; appearances in volumes 2, 9, 14, 24, 28 and 29)
- Sebastian Köhler (Tristan's nephew; appearances in volumes 2, 9 and 14)
- Dr. Liliane Lindenberg (forensic pathologist; appearances in volumes 22, 24 and 28)
- Nadine Weinberger (journalist) and Strubbel alias Alexander Müller (photographer and colleague of Nadine; appearances in volumes 2, 6 and 25)
- Prince Siegfried von Schayn zu Widerstein (forest owner; appearances in volumes 12 and 24)
- Klette (ex-counterfeiter and Tristan's friend; appearances in volumes 9 and 11)
Books
| Volume number | title | Publishing year |
|---|---|---|
1 |
Tristan Irle and the Rubens murder |
1991
|
2 |
Tristan Irle - A corpse on the HTS |
1992
|
3 |
Tristan Irle - Pure Murder |
1993
|
4th |
Tristan Irle - The offside trap |
1994
|
5 |
Tristan Irle - The sixth commandment |
1995
|
6th |
Tristan Irle and the town hall conspiracy |
1996
|
7th |
Tristan Irle - The Brewmaster |
1997
|
8th |
Tristan Irle - Against the Grain |
1998
|
9 |
Tristan Irle - Fatal Doctor Games |
1999
|
10 |
Tristan Irle - Siegen Masquerade |
2000
|
11 |
Tristan Irle - Eisenhart |
2001
|
12 |
Tristan Irle - The Prince Hunt |
2002
|
13 |
Tristan Irle local time |
2003
|
14th |
Tristan Irle - tree falls! |
2004
|
15th |
Tristan Irle - The trembling tenors |
2005
|
16 |
Tristan Irle - The Killersteig |
2006
|
17th |
Tristan Irle - Hole in |
2007
|
18th |
Tristan Irle has stage fright |
2008
|
19th |
Tristan Irle and the grave robber |
2009
|
20th |
Tristan Irle - Where's Marlowe? |
2010
|
21st |
Tristan Irle - The bee sting |
2011
|
22nd |
Tristan Irle serves a cold platter |
2012
|
23 |
Tristan Irle - The last clapperboard |
2013
|
24 |
Tristan Irle meets the bison |
2014
|
25th |
Tristan Irle - Stormwind (anniversary volume with 20 watercolors) |
2015
|
26th |
Tristan Irle - The Mission Order |
2016
|
27 |
Tristan Irle - The Luther attack |
2017
|
28 |
Tristan Irle - The Killer OP |
2018
|
29 |
Tristan Irle - The horse grave |
2019
|
Brief descriptions of the books
Tristan Irle and the Rubens murder
The celebrations for the 350th anniversary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens should actually be celebrated peacefully and without any major fuss. But when you find a corpse in the forecourt of the Upper Castle, this changes suddenly. Private detective Tristan Irle takes over the case and soon he finds out that there seems to be more to the case than it looks at first sight.
Tristan Irle - A corpse on the HTS
The inhabitants of the Siegerland peacefully prepare for Christmas, but when a corpse is found buried in the snow, the peace is quickly destroyed. Tristan Irle takes on the task of solving the mysterious murder. He gets caught in a web of bribery, lies and intrigues.
Tristan Irle - Pure Murder
For years, Kultur Pur has been the term for a special kind of festival. When Tristan Irle treats himself to a few days' vacation on the Giller, he meets the guesthouse owner Helga Bottenberg (his girlfriend since this book). The day is determined by tranquility until a devious attack destroys the idyll.
Tristan Irle - The offside trap
Once again, the SC Siegen women's team made it. She is in the final of the German championship. But suddenly a member of the club has a mysterious accident and the question arises whether it was a murder. Tristan Irle should clarify this question. Full of zest for action, he throws himself into the game, but the game is not fair and he sees through the insidious offside trap.
Tristan Irle - The sixth commandment
After rain showers had been pouring over Siegerland for days, one night a car explosion shook downtown Siegen. There is a dead person. Around the same time, Tristan Irle found a foundling in St. Mary's Church. Do both events have something to do with each other? Tristan Irle and the police are faced with a mystery.
Tristan Irle and the town hall conspiracy
It is the beginning of the Advent season and the annual winner Christmas market takes place, suddenly a terrible one shakes the minds. The public prosecutor and police intervened in shock. A young reporter is one step ahead of you. She asks Tristan Irle for help because she suspects connections to the town hall. Machinations everywhere, and the communal felt threaten to stifle the investigation.
Tristan Irle - The Brewmaster
Roland Eichbaum, a young master brewer, has the idea of his life. He wants to brew beer in Asia. The negotiations were already in full swing when a murder shook the brewers in Siegerland. Tristan Irle is investigating, but until he can find a solution he has to dig through a network of inconsistencies and empty many a glass of beer. And then there is also a secretive encryption key that hinders Tristan's investigation.
Tristan Irle - Against the Grain
When the small city of Siegen is in the focus of the global public due to an art fair, a murder of a Siegen artist suddenly occurs. During his investigation, Tristan Irle discovered that the art scene was just as dazzling as a palette of paints.
Tristan Irle - Fatal Doctor Games
“I will do my job with conscientiousness and dignity. The preservation and restoration of my patients should be the top priority of my actions, ”it says in the doctor's vow. Doctors at a hospital in Siegen also praised this sentence. But one morning a dead patient is found. It turns out she was mistreated. The suspicion falls on chief physician Dr. Med. Killian, but he claims to be innocent. Tristan Irle is turned on to investigate the mysterious murder case, facing him a bevy of white coats, all of which seem to be hiding something.
Tristan Irle - Siegen Masquerade
Raffael Leich, a writer, meets in secret with the mayor's personal advisor. A strange picture changes hands, and shortly afterwards shots are suddenly fired. Raffael can escape. The next day, private detective Tristan Irle is called in to investigate. At the same time, lawyer Hallenberger is preparing a multi-million dollar donation for the city of Siegen to use the money to finance the Apollo Theater project. Are there any connection between the murder and the theater project? What role do the mayor and Raffael Leich play? And then there is this mysterious picture. Included in the book: a foldable extract from the same.
Tristan Irle - Eisenhart
City treasurer Goldmann is sweating on his forehead - the city treasury is as dry as an African wadi. Meanwhile, his boss, the mayor, is opening a museum and doesn't really know how to solve the upcoming financial problems. On the same day, Tristan Irle, private detective, accepted an invitation to the city's glider airfield. There he saw a terrible accident. Or was it murder? Tristan Irle begins to investigate, and in the process, the apparently committed aviation community turns out to be a life-threatening threat to him and his friends.
Tristan Irle - The Prince Hunt
It is hunting season in the forest of Prince zu Wiederstein. Near Bad Berleburg, in a forester's house, all kinds of celebrities from abroad meet to get to grips with the game together with Prince Siegfried. Seized by the hunting fever, the gentlemen spread out in the forest. Shots are fired and suddenly hunting horns sound. Shortly afterwards the hunt is stopped because there is a dead man in the forest. Tristan Irle, a private detective, who drives the hunt, takes over the investigation, but it turns out to be extremely difficult, because the hunting guests from the highest aristocratic circles are silent until the burden of proof becomes more and more overwhelming.
Tristan Irle local time
When someone dies in front of the local time camera, everyone at the station is nervous. Nobody suspects yet that this is the beginning of an eerie series of murders. Private detective Tristan Irle takes over the investigation. And that surprisingly leads him to a large Swedish furniture store, the settlement of which has led to a conflict of interests between the powerful parties. Ultimately, the detective is forced to ask a serious question: has the town hall to do with the murder?
Tristan Irle - tree falls
The domestic political celebrities are delighted. A Brazilian ambassador visits Siegerland on the occasion of a Fürst-Johann-Moritz exhibition in the region. A good opportunity to invite guests from overseas to convey ancient Hauberg tradition. The ambassador is enthusiastic, but the members of the exhibition's board of trustees and the historians responsible are not very enthusiastic. And then the excursion ends up mysteriously fatal for the guest. Tristan Irle begins to investigate. It soon becomes clear that the fine society of exhibition organizers is pursuing its own dubious goals. Finally the detective gets into the field of fire, because the secret service is still operating in the background ...
Tristan Irle - The trembling tenors
The men's choir "Pro Patria" is facing a great challenge, because the members, together with the committed choir director Gottfried Kunze, want to finally achieve the status of "master choir" after 100 years of existence. They rehearse until the vocal cords tremble, but then a murder occurs during the rehearsal breaks. The choir director and the first chairman agree. Only one person can solve this devious attack: private detective Tristan Irle. But the tenors distrust Tristan's investigation. The more the detective gets into a sticky web of intrigue, the more dangerous it becomes for him. And then suddenly it turns out that the victim has a famous relative.
Tristan Irle - The Killersteig
A group of police officers, the public prosecutor and the district administrator meet on a glorious late summer day to hike over part of the famous Rothaarsteig . Equipped with a backpack and hiking boots, the hike begins in the south of Siegen-Wittgenstein, near Burbach. But already on the first night there is a tragic incident. Shortly thereafter, Tristan Irle, a private detective, receives a mysterious call that prompts him to join the group the next day. He soon realizes that not everyone in the group is as friendly as they appear to be. When another incident occurs, the detective suspects that a murderer is among them.
Tristan Irle - Hole in!
On the eve of the club championship of a Siegerland golf club, a body was found on the golf course in the middle of the wadder obstacle. Great excitement is spreading among golfers. No one can really explain how this apparent accident happened, but to the astonishment of Tristan Irle, private detective, the mourning for the deceased club member is limited. When Tristan takes over the investigation, there are clues that point to murder. The detective begins to ask questions that excite club members and the club president. Then Tristan Irle finds the weapon ...
Tristan Irle has stage fright
Intendant Wolferl Wanderschmied has come up with something big for the start of the season. A beautifully staged romantic comedy with talented young actors and old hands should make the audience laugh. Unfortunately, one of the young actors doesn't survive the dress rehearsal, which triggers a chain of events that artistic director Wolferl hadn't imagined for his production. Fortunately, private detective Tristan Irle is part of the drama troupe and takes over the investigation. Now Tristan shows his true talent and finds intrigues, which leads him into the limelight. But on stage some things are not what they seem, and Tristan knows that the killer is watching the scene very closely.
Tristan Irle and the grave robber
A late night phone call lures Tristan Irle, a private detective, to the city cemetery. Something monstrous happened there - desecration and murder. Strangely enough, the victim is the grave abuser himself. A strange situation that is not made clearer by the fact that there is a Freemason in the desecrated grave. Suddenly Lina Lamberti, a young historian, knocks on Tristan's front door and claims that she has found clues to a mysterious artifact in the district. Together they follow the trail that goes way back in time, always on the lookout for a murderer who is sitting on their necks.
Tristan Irle - Where's Marlowe?
Preparations for the NRW Day in Siegen are in full swing. The necessary stalls and booths are set up throughout the city, and a corpse can be found in the upper castle. Shortly afterwards, Tristan Irle is called to the crime scene, and a stranger who calls himself van Veen threatens a bomb attack. The local police and even the Interior Ministry are extremely alarmed, but no one wants to cancel the festival. Together with a few friends, Tristan Irle goes on a search for the perpetrator. The officials, however, see al-Qaida at work and are pulling together their forces. To make matters worse, Marlowe, Tristan's cockatoo, has disappeared.
Tristan Irle - The bee sting
The iron road is in terrible condition. The citizens of Lützel no longer want to accept the cracks and thousands of potholes. They decide to do something, especially Paul Nöll, mayor and passionate beekeeper. At about the same time, Tristan Irle is enjoying a few quiet days at his girlfriend Helga's guesthouse, just a few kilometers away from Lützel. But the calm is suddenly over when a mysterious death shakes the small village community. Villagers as well as politicians see the high-profile action at risk. Not good prerequisites for investigations that drag on like honey. And then there are also bees that sting.
Tristan Irle serves a cold platter
The demolition of the Siegplatte in downtown Siegen is imminent, but no sooner has a powerful hydraulic chisel started its work than work suddenly stops. Workers discover a corpse between the cross members of the concrete ceiling. How did she get four meters high? How did she die? Was she murdered? These are questions that private detective Tristan Irle should clarify with the help of a pathologist. During his investigation he finds clues that lead to a moneylender and business people. This makes the suspects nervous and one does not shy away from further acts of violence.
Tristan Irle - The last clapperboard
When a television thriller was filmed at the Upper Castle in Siegen, there suddenly was a terrible accident. At the same time, Tristan Irle finds a mysterious message on the threshold of his front door. Are there any connection between the accident and the message? Tristan Irle has to ask himself these and other questions while an arctic snowstorm has the Crown City firmly under control. Tristan Irle soon realizes that he is dealing with a serial killer who will stop at nothing.
Tristan Irle meets the bison
When Tristan Irle and his niece Sara visit the bison enclosure near Wingeshausen, they both have to experience one of the rangers being found dead. To everyone's horror, Leitkuh Gutfeune is suspected of having impaled the ranger. A disaster, not only for Sara, but also for ex-district administrator and second chairman of the Otto Otterbach sponsoring association. He is still struggling with the effects of his loss of office when suddenly one of the most renowned nature conservation projects threatens to fail. Only when good-humored innocence can be proven can the reputation of the project be restored. But there is only one person who can hold their own against trigger-happy hunters, angry forest farmers, competing rangers and the wilderness in the Rothaargebirge: private detective Tristan Irle.
Tristan Irle - Stormwind
Anniversary volume No. 25, which is equipped with 20 colored watercolors by the artist Anja Georg, sister of Ralf Strackbein.
The energy transition shows its face on the horizon of the Rothaargebirge. Not everyone likes wind turbines that tower above the treetops. Environmentalists and proponents of wind power are fighting a heated battle. One morning a corpse is found that was hung up in front of the Siegen town hall by the Mikado fountain. Was that a message? Under the eyes of the new district administrator Robert Fischer, a homicide squad is formed by the police. Private detective Tristan Irle also begins to investigate. The tracks lead to supporters and opponents of wind power, and both parties seem to want to hide something. After further incidents that ended fatally, the question arises: "Can we still prevent the approaching storm?"
Tristan Irle - The Mission Order
The "Riewekoche Gäng" has a mission order: Promotion to the 1st paintball league. The students at the University of Siegen are ready for anything. The district administrator's personal assistant also has a mission: to have a new refugee home built as cheaply as possible. To do this, he has to bring two competing prefabricated house manufacturers on board. When the captain of the "Riewekoche Gäng" is murdered, however, both missions threaten to fail because, unfortunately, he is also the son of one of the prefabricated house manufacturers. Private detective Tristan Irle begins an investigation. He painfully realizes that envy and competition can take on destructive traits, especially when good is to be done.
Tristan Irle - The Luther attack
The whole country is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Also in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, representatives of the Catholic and Protestant Churches meet in a remote leisure camp, which is located behind Bad Berleburg in "no man's land". Unfortunately, the venerable men and women of God are not very happy about this excursion destination, which the diocese of Paderborn and the district church office have chosen, although actually the remote, quiet location seems to be exactly the right prerequisite for contemplating the beliefs of both denominations go. However, one murder messes everything up. The victim: a Protestant. The suspect quickly found: Erich Roth, the Catholic deacon of the Marienkirche in Siegen. And as if that weren't enough, you find a pile of leaflets with Luther's 62nd thesis, which reads: The true treasure of the church is the holy gospel of the glory and grace of God. The police are facing a mystery. The bishop's rushing investigator hopes for God's help to find exculpatory evidence for his husband. Then private detective Tristan Irle begins his investigation and quickly finds out that theological disputes can turn into deadly traps even today.
Tristan Irle - The Killer OP
The University of Siegen receives 6.5 million euros in funding for the newly created life sciences faculty. The medical studies are integrated into this. The rector of the university is visibly satisfied, as are the clinic managers of the three Siegen hospitals. They receive part of the grant to get their hospitals ready for teaching. But then there is an unfortunate incident. A recognized medical professor dies in his own hip operation. The OR staff are then accused of having made mistakes. Finally, private detective Tristan Irle intervenes. His investigations take him behind the scenes of hospital operations. It quickly becomes clear that the doctors form a close knit community. After the detective has laboriously put together the background and facts, like small pieces of a mosaic, he is presented with an overall picture that makes him shudder.
Tristan Irle - The horse grave
In order to qualify for the big horse show "The Classics", the young riders must have mastered the notorious "horse grave", an obstacle in the course. The favorites of the tournament look at each other critically. Any of them could win the tournament - they all have strikingly good show jumpers. When one of the favorites is found dead in the stable, the mood explodes. Mutual accusations are quickly made. Private detective Tristan Irle is hired to solve the insidious murder. The investigations lead into pits against which a dung heap appears almost sterile. A lot is demanded of the detective and in the end they endanger his life.
reception
The Tristan Irle novels are particularly popular in Siegerland. In the meantime, 7000 books are published per edition. When band storm the first edition was 6000 books.
literature
- Ralf Strackbein: murder slaughter. Siegen 2010, ISBN 978-3-935378-30-7 .
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References and comments
- ↑ a b Egypt and the North Sea. Ralf Strackbein has Ralph Olosson investigated in his fourth case. In: Siegener Zeitung , April 1, 2017, p. 24.
- ↑ a b murder slaughter. Magolvesverlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-935378-30-7 .
- ↑ In each novel, the characters are described in a short sentence on a page to give an overview of the characters.