Ulrich Ritzel
Ulrich Ritzel (* 1940 in Pforzheim ) is a German journalist and writer .
Life
Ulrich Ritzel spent his childhood and youth in the Swabian Alb and has lived as a freelance writer on Lake Constance and in Laufen / Switzerland since 1998. He studied law in Tübingen, Berlin and Heidelberg. He then wrote for various newspapers, including a. in Mannheim, Kempten, Aichach, Nördlingen, Frankfurt ( Frankfurter Rundschau ), Friedrichshafen ( Schwäbische Zeitung ) and Ulm (chief editor at Südwest Presse ). In 1980 he was awarded the Guardian Prize. In some cases he worked as a court reporter , already knowledgeable through his studies .
Since 1999, he has been publishing detective novels and stories that relate to locations and characters in southern Germany , Berlin , Frankfurt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
The author and his wife have lived in Switzerland since 2008.
Prices
- 1980 Guardian Prize of the German Daily Press Journalist Prize
- 2001 German Crime Prize for Driftwood
- 2004 Burgdorf crime prize for The Prophet's Dog
- 2010 German Crime Prize for Bycatch
Works
- The shadow of the swan , novel. Lengwil: Libelle 1999
- Driftwood , novel. Lengwil: Libelle 2000; 2002
- The black edges of the embers , novel. Lengwil: Libelle 2001
- The Prophet's Dog , novel. Lengwil: Libelle 2003
- Halder's peace , stories. Munich 2005
- Uferwald , novel. Munich: btb 2006
- Trout Quintet , novel. Munich: btb 2007
- Bycatch , Roman. Munich: btb 2009 ISBN 978-3-442-74162-5
- Snakehead , novel. Munich: btb 2011
- Trotsky's fool , novel. Munich: btb 2013
- Nadja's cat , novel. Munich: btb 2016
- The 150 days of Markus Morgart , novel. Munich: btb 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Ulrich Ritzel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dragonfly, authors
- Writer portrait by Tobias Gohlis from April 11, 2007
- Randomhouse.de
- Margit Weihrich: The thriller and real life. The construction of society in the modern crime novel . (Review on: Stefanie Abt: Social Enquête in the current crime novel. Using the example of Henning Mankell, Ulrich Ritzel and Pieke Biermann . Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag 2004.) In: IASL online, October 17, 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The author. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 17, 2015 ; Retrieved April 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ see GND entry
- ↑ a b Author profile Ulrich Ritzel , randomhouse.de, accessed April 5, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pinion, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pforzheim |