Walter Landin

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Walter Landin (2018)

Walter Landin (born May 29, 1952 in Dirmstein ) is a writer with a focus on socially critical topics , detective novels and the Palatinate dialect , what he calls " Palatinate Saund".

Life and literary career

Landin grew up in the Palatinate and lives as a retired secondary school teacher in Mannheim .

By the time he graduated from high school in 1971, Landin gained journalistic experience in the editorial department of the school newspaper “Kaktus” at the Albert Einstein High School in Frankenthal . From the end of the 1970s, socially critical texts were written while teaching foreign young people. Around the mid-1980s, he began to deal with the German past during the Nazi era . Around the same time, the start of the Palatinate dialect poetry , which he christened “Pälzer Saund”. In the 1990s, detective novels were added that are set in the region and are partly based on authentic cases.

Works

  • 1985: When the grass grows . Stories. Palatinate Publishing House, Landau
  • 1988: village air . Narrative. Palatinate Publishing House, Landau
  • 1993: You know, you know . Palatine Saund. cjm publishing house, Speyer
  • 1996: Sudden death . Shortest stories. Frankenthal
  • 1998: Baumer's case . Crime story. Klaus Bielefeld Verlag, Friedland
  • 1999: the grass the silence of the poppies . Poems. Klaus Bielefeld Verlag, Friedland
  • 2001: Play "Von Hurenmenschen, Polacken, Volksgenossen" (world premiere in Mannheim on January 27, 2001 on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day)
  • 2001: Klaus Haag, Barbara Mattes and Klaus Spindler (eds.): Fichtner's legacy . Kurpfalz thriller. C & C Verlag, Schifferstadt (idea generator; 1st and last chapter of 24)
  • 2003: The cold heart . Audio book on CD with the music of Kaikai. Vineta Musikverlag, Mannheim, ISBN 3-927303-04-6
  • 2005: Wu please is the menu card? - Pälzer Saund from dahääm un on the way . cjm Verlag, Schifferstadt, ISBN 3-938072-03-2
  • 2007: Murder in the Square . 20 Mannheim murder stories. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim, 5th edition, October 2009, ISBN 978-3-939540-14-4
  • 2007: Murder in the Square . Audio book (2 CDs), speaker: Bettina Franke & Berthold Toetzke, music: Hans Reffert. Wellhöfer Verlag & Vineta Musikverlag, ISBN 978-3-939540-17-5
  • 2008: Mannheim carousel . Detective novel. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim, ISBN 978-3-939540-20-5
  • 2008: Murderous Mannheim, Murderous Electoral Palatinate and Murderous Palatinate . Crime anthologies. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim
  • 2009: Deadly Waters . Crime anthology. Gmeiner Verlag
  • 2009: The Mannheim Summer Book - Stories for vacationers and those who stayed at home . Anthology. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim
  • 2009: Blood heat . Commissioner Lauer determined. Detective novel. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim, ISBN 978-3-939540-39-7
  • 2011: Murderous ingenuity . Criminals from the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. Gmeiner Verlag
  • 2011: Eiswut . Mannheim crime, Commissioner Lauer's second case. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim, ISBN 978-3-939540-81-6
  • 2012: Mannheim on the criminal tour . Anthology. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim

Literary prizes

  • 1984: Mannheim Short Story Prize
  • 1990: Prize for Literature from the Palatinate District Association
  • 1994: 1st poetry prize in the dialect competition of the working group Heimatpflege Nordbaden
  • 1997: Main prize in the "Factory" literary competition (call for tenders: Literary Association of the Palatinate and Hauenstein Municipality )
  • 2003: 2nd prize at the Agatha Christie crime thriller award "Last Words"
  • 2006: Winner of the 3rd Marburg Short Drama Competition with the contribution "Treading Water"

Memberships

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Landin, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dirmstein