Van Veeteren

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Van Veeteren is a by Swedish writer Håkan Nesser created fictional character of a book series of novels . The series comprises ten volumes and was published between 1993 and 2003. All volumes have also been published in German translations.

Location

The setting for the novels in the Van Veeteren series is a fictional European country with the capital Maardam. Place and person names as well as landscape descriptions cannot be clearly assigned. Northern Europe is mentioned several times in the novels. Some names and the currency guilder are reminiscent of the Netherlands, but there are also often German, Slavic or Baltic-sounding names and places, and more rarely those from the Romance-speaking area. Scandinavian locations were chosen for the films.

protagonist

The protagonist of the novel series is Van Veeteren, chief inspector of the Maardam police, in his late fifties, slightly overweight. He lives separately from his wife Renate. They have two grown children, daughter Jess and son Erich. Van Veeteren is constantly chewing toothpicks and occasionally smoking cigarillos and cigarettes. He regularly plays badminton with his colleague Commissioner Münster. He loves classical music and the game of chess. A characteristic of his way of working is that "as a commissioner, van Veteren has a pronounced hunting instinct and moral ambitions are not in the foreground". "He firmly believes that he is able to solve even the most difficult and obscure murder case."

Follow the series

  1. 1993 Det grovmaskiga nätet . The large-meshed net , German by Gabriele Haefs; Munich: btb 1999. ISBN 3-442-72380-9 . Swedish Crime Award - Bästa svenska debut .
  2. 1994 Borkmann's point . The fourth victim , German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: btb 1999. ISBN 3-442-75030-X . Swedish detective award - Bästa svenska crime novel .
  3. 1995 Återkomsten . The wrong judgment, German by Gabriele Haefs; Munich: Goldmann 2000. ISBN 3-442-72598-4
  4. 1996 Kvinna med födelsemärke . The woman with the birthmark, German by Christel Hildebrandt, Munich: btb 1998. ISBN 3-442-72280-2 . Swedish detective award - Bästa svenska crime novel .
  5. 1997 Commissaries och tystnaden . The Commissioner and the Silence, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: Goldmann 2001. ISBN 3-442-75075-X
  6. 1998 Fall of Münster . Münster's Fall, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: Goldmann 2000. ISBN 3-442-75043-1
  7. 1999 carambola . The unfortunate murderer, German by Gabriele Haefs; Munich: Goldmann 2001. ISBN 3-442-72628-X . Scandinavian crime prize Glasnyckel .
  8. 2000 Ewa Moreno's case . The Dead from the Beach, German by Gabriele Haefs; Munich: btb 2002. ISBN 3-442-75060-1
  9. 2001 Svalan, katten, roses, dozen . The swallow, the cat, the rose and the death, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: Goldmann 2003. ISBN 3-442-73325-1
  10. 2003 Fallet G . His last case, German by Christel Hildebrandt; Munich: btb 2004. ISBN 3-442-75080-6

distribution

The ten-volume van Veteeren series represents the greatest literary success by Håkan Nesser, which enabled him to give up teaching and become quite the writing to devote. By the beginning of 2013, the series had sold more than ten million copies in 25 countries.

Filmography

  • 2000: Håkan Nesser - Das grobmaschige Netz (TV film / Sweden / Det grovmaskiga nätet ), director: Martin Asphaug
  • 2001: Håkan Nesser - The Wrong Judgment (TV film / Sweden / Återkomsten ), director: Martin Asphaug
  • 2001: Håkan Nesser - The woman with the birthmark (TV film / Sweden / Kvinna med födelsemärke ), director: Martin Asphaug. Nesser has a small acting appearance.
  • 2005: The unfortunate murderer (TV film / Sweden / Carambole ), director: Daniel Lind Lagerlöf . Nesser has a small acting appearance.
  • 2005: Håkan Nesser - Münsters Fall (TV film / Schweden / Münsters fall ), directed by Rickard Petrelius
  • 2005: Van Veeteren - The fourth victim; also: Håkan Nesser - The fourth victim (TV film / Sweden / Borkmanns point ). Director: Erik Leijonborg
  • 2006: Håkan Nesser - Moreno and the Silence (TV film / Sweden / Moreno & tystnaden ), directed by Erik Leijonborg
  • 2006: Håkan Nesser - The Swallow, the Cat, the Rose and Death (TV film / Sweden / Svalan, katten, rosen, döden ), director: Daniel Lind Lagerlöf
  • 2006: Håkan Nesser - Van Veeteren's worst case (TV film / Sweden / Fallet G ), directed by Rickard Petrelius

Sven Wollter embodies the main role in all of the films .

Audio productions in German

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perlentaucher: Review note on Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 6, 2000.
  2. ↑ Van Veeteren series on scandinavische-krimis.com
  3. ↑ Blog about Håkan Nesser on www. literatur-schweden.blogspot.ch .