Uwe Klausner

Reading in the Teutonic Order Museum Bad Mergentheim 2009

Uwe Klausner (* 1956 in Heidelberg ) is a German author of historical crime novels .

Uwe Klausner studied history and English in Heidelberg . He lives in Bad Mergentheim and teaches as a high school teacher in Weikersheim . In his first novel, Hans the Piper , he told the historically documented story of the piper of Niklashausen from the time of the Peasants' War . Afterwards Klausner devoted himself to several historical detective novels about the Cistercian monk Hilpert von Maulbronn , which are located in Mainfranken .

In between, he published the novel Walhalla Code, a crime thriller about the character of the police officer Tom Sydow and Reinhard Heydrich's secret files , who is set in Berlin in 1942 . A sequel to it, set in 1948, was released in 2010 under the title Odessa Complott and tells of the prevention of a fictional conspiracy by those involved in the massacre of Babyn Yar . In a third part of this series, which is about the hunt for the missing Amber Room , he lets the main plot take place on June 16 and 17, 1953 . The fourth part, published in 2011, tells a criminal case in connection with the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The fifth part of 2012 revolves around the kidnapping and conviction of Adolf Eichmann in 1962. The plot of the sixth part, published in 2014, revolves around the events in connection with tunnels 57 in 1964.

In 2013 Klausner also published a historical detective novel with The Hour of Gladiators . This is located in the late antique Trier of the year 313 AD.

Previous publications

• Hans the Piper. Friends of Niklashausen, Niklashausen 2005.
• The gates of hell. (First volume of the Bruder Hilpert series) Gmeiner-Verlag , Meßkirch 2007, ISBN 978-3-89977-729-1 .
• The Kilians Conspiracy. (Second volume of the Bruder Hilpert series) Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2008, ISBN 978-3-89977-768-0 .
• The gates of hell. (Audio book, read by Norbert Hülm) TechniSat Digital, Daun / Vulkaneifel 2008, ISBN 978-3-8368-0215-4 .
• Valhalla code: Tom Sydow's first case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2009, ISBN 978-3-89977-808-3 .
• Pilgrims of anger. (Third volume of the Bruder Hilpert series) Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2009, ISBN 978-3-8392-1019-2 .
• Odessa plot: Tom Sydow's second case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2010, ISBN 978-3-8392-1053-6 .
• The Brides of Satan. (Fourth volume of the Bruder Hilpert series) Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2010, ISBN 978-3-8392-1072-7 .
• Amber connection: Tom Sydow's third case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2011, ISBN 978-3-8392-1113-7 .
• Kennedy Syndrome: Tom Sydow's Fourth Case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2011, ISBN 978-3-8392-1185-4 .
• Angel of vengeance. (Fifth volume of the Bruder Hilpert series) Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2012, ISBN 978-3-8392-1267-7 .
• Eichmann Syndicate: Tom Sydow's fifth case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2012, ISBN 978-3-8392-1300-1 .
• The hour of the gladiators. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2013, ISBN 978-3-8392-1464-0 .
• Stasi group: Tom Sydow's sixth case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2014, ISBN 978-3-8392-1548-7 .
• Valkyrie Alert: Tom Sydow's seventh case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2014, ISBN 978-3-8392-1622-4 .
• The track of the wolves. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2015, ISBN 978-3-8392-1649-1 .
• Fuehrer order: Tom Sydow's eighth case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2015, ISBN 978-3-8392-1800-6 .
• The track of the wolves: historical novel. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2016, ISBN 978-3-8392-1649-1 .
• Pseudonym - the Shakespeare plot: a case for Clayton Percival. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2016, ISBN 978-3-8392-1817-4 .
• Flower Children: Tom Sydow's ninth case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2016, ISBN 978-3-8392-1977-5 .
• State plot: Tom Sydow's tenth case. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2017, ISBN 978-3-8392-2132-7 .
• The Fall of Icarus: Clayton Percival's Second Fall. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2017, ISBN 978-3-8392-2013-9 .

Web links

Commons : Uwe Klausner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Article about Uwe Klausner at Histo-Couch
• Literature by and about Uwe Klausner in the catalog of the German National Library