Uta-Maria Heim

Uta-Maria Heim (born October 14, 1963 in Schramberg , Black Forest ) is a German writer .

biography

Uta-Maria Heim studied literature , linguistics and sociology at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Stuttgart ( Master’s degree in 1989). From 1983 to 2006 she worked as a critic a. a. for the Stuttgarter Zeitung , the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Tagesspiegel and as an author for public broadcasters. Since the mid-1980s she has been writing poems , radio plays and essays as well as narrative works. She is now known primarily as a writer of crime novels . Since 2006 she has been a dramaturge in the radio play department of the SWR . She is also a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Uta-Maria Heim lived in Stuttgart , Hamburg and Berlin from 1983 to 2006 , and has lived in Baden-Baden since 2006 .

Awards / prizes

• 1992 German Crime Prize (National 3) for The Rat Principle
• 1993 scholarship from the Berlin Literary Colloquium
• 1994 German Crime Prize (National 2) for The Cockroach City
• 1994 Berlin Art Prize (Literature Prize)
• 1998 Villa Massimo grant
• 2000 Friedrich Glauser Prize for Engelchens Ende
• 2007 crime prize of the city of Singen

Works

Novels and short stories

• 1990 Vergelt's Gott: Black Forest novellas ( short stories, Schlack, Stuttgart)
• 1991 The rat principle (crime novel, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-43013-4
• 1992 The hard core (crime novel, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-43045-2
• 1993 The cockroach town (detective novel, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-43068-1
• 1993 The Adversary (Roman, Nagel and Kimche, Zurich and Frauenfeld). ISBN 3-312-00190-0
• 1994 The Desert Fox (detective novel, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-43110-6
• 1994 The rage of females (crime stories, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-43143-2
• 1995 Bull Heat (detective novel, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-43176-9
• 1996 getting through (Roman, Kiepenheuer, Leipzig). ISBN 3-378-00592-0
• 1996 Die Zecke (crime novel, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-43237-4
• 1998 nosedive (detective novel, Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg). ISBN 3-921305-42-X
• 1999 Engelchens Ende (Roman, Wunderlich, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-26150-2
• 2000 Happy is he who does not forget (Roman, Wunderlich, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-22938-2
• 2000 Your second face (Roman, Wunderlich, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-26218-5
• 2002 Ruth is looking for Ruth (Roman, Berlin-Verlag, Berlin). ISBN 3-442-76023-2
• 2002 sister kiss (Roman, Berlin-Verlag, Berlin). ISBN 3-442-76052-6
• 2006 Dreckskind (crime novel, Gmeiner, Meßkirch). ISBN 3-89977-661-5
• 2007 Totschweigen (detective novel, Gmeiner, Meßkirch). ISBN 3-89977-704-2
• 2009 Waspennest (detective novel, Gmeiner, Meßkirch). ISBN 978-3-89977-809-0
• 2009 The rat principle (detective novel, revised new edition, Gmeiner, Meßkirch 2009). ISBN 978-3-89977-745-1
• 2010 Totenkuss (detective novel, Gmeiner, Meßkirch). ISBN 978-3-8392-1059-8
• 2011 closing time (detective novel, Gmeiner, Meßkirch), ISBN 978-3-8392-1178-6
• 2013 Who else but you. (Roman, Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen), ISBN 978-3-86351-064-0
• 2016 Heimstadt has to die (Roman, Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen). ISBN 978-3-86351-413-6
• 2017 Tuscan confession (detective novel, Gmeiner, Meßkirch). ISBN 978-3-8392-2125-9
• 2018 Tuscan fire (detective novel, Gmeiner, Meßkirch). ISBN 978-3-8392-2348-2
• 2019 Tuscan blood (detective novel, Gmeiner, Meßkirch). ISBN 978-3-8392-2488-5

Poetry

• 1985 New ballads by thin men (poems, fly ash, Stuttgart). ISBN 3-925286-99-3
• 1987 trip into the lake (poems, Keicher, Warmbronn). ISBN 3-924316-22-8
• 1991 Süd und Errtum (poems, fly ash, Stuttgart) ISBN 3-925286-18-7

Artist books

• 2016 Festivals are celebrated inside. Inside the Horizons (poems and drawings, together with the visual artist Peter-Jörg Splettstößer, introduced by Hermann Korte, rasch verlag, Bramsche) Publisher: Galerie Altes Rathaus, Worpswede, ISBN 978-3-89946-245-6

Children's books

• 1999 Dachshund Maier's first case (Aare, Aarau, Frankfurt am Main, Salzburg). ISBN 3-7260-0530-7
• 2015 Leon Lustig and the kidnapped Wilhelma penguin (children's thriller, Verlag Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart). ISBN 3-9807076-4-4

Editing

• 1997 Bloody Mummy (together with Milena Moser ; Krimigeschichten, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg). ISBN 3-499-43253-6
• 2000 The shot in the head of the architect (Krimigeschichten, av-ed, Ludwigsburg). ISBN 3-929638-38-X

Web links

• Entry in the German crime dictionary
• Interview with Heim in Prinz magazine
• Interview with Heim in the Badische Zeitung, April 2, 2009
• Interview with Heim on buchwurm.info (2009)
• Literature by and about Uta-Maria Heim in the catalog of the German National Library

supporting documents

1. ^ The angles of the past, book review "Who else but you" , Sylvia Staude in Frankfurter Rundschau from March 17, 2014, accessed March 18, 2014