Walter Wehner

Walter Wehner in 2014

Walter Wehner (born October 2, 1949 in Werdohl , Märkischer Kreis ) is a German author.

Life

Wehner grew up in Essen and studied German and art history. In 1978 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the subject of weaver revolts and weavers' misery in nineteenth-century poetry.

His professional career included book trade and university activities, as well as the long-term management of the department for cultural education at the Volkshochschule Essen. He has been retired since 2012.

Walter Wehner writes poems and prose, radio plays and plays, and occasionally specialist literature. He runs an extensive lyric archive with currently around 5,000 editions as well as a website on the subject of Robinsonades.

Wehner took part in sponsorship seminars organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation in Straelen and the Nordkolleg in Rendsburg. Together with the Essen writer Reinhard Jahn , he forms the author duo Karr-Wehner . Numerous works by the duo have received awards.

Karr-Wehner published detective novels, short stories and radio plays that were played by almost all ARD stations. Their first joint novel Geierfrühling was published in autumn 1994 by Haffmans Verlag Zurich, the second volume about the hero Gonzo Gonschorek followed with Rattensommer in summer 1995. In 1999 the Bullenwinter concluded the series of novels. Since then, short stories about the video reporter Gonzo have appeared in loose succession.

Private

Wehner is married and has two daughters. He lives in Iserlohn .

Works

Walter Wehner

1974 tracks. Poems. Karlsruhe: The Karlsruhe Messenger
1980 Heinrich Heine "The Silesian Weavers" and other texts on weaving misery. Munich: Fink
1981 Weaving misery and weaving revolts in 19th century German poetry. Munich: Fink
1982 - 1984 Introduction to 19th century German literature. Volume 1-2, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag
1983 poems. Mettmann: Office for Public Relations u. Culture
1983 structures. Food: print service
1986 Bibliography of Essen authors. Essen: City of Essen
1981 (as Hrsgb) The labor movement in the Ruhr area. Essen: Homann and Wehr
1984 (as Hrsgb) Essen Reading Book. Food: plain language
1985 Essen Altstadt - Stories from old Wachowski (text-illustrated book). Mülheim: Westarp
1988 words, words. Poems. Mülheim: Westarp
2000 The dead to the living. A Freiligrath poem and its Iserlohn readers. Iserlohn: Iserlohn City Archives
2002 (together with Dirk Hallenberger) literary city guide. Essen: plain text, OA
2004 Robinson returns home - to the Reich. Robinsonades during the Nazi era. Weißenfels: Museum Weißenfels
2011 Operative poetry as a biographical source in local newspapers from the Nazi era. Münster: LWL
2013 (together with Jenny Warnecke) Louise Franziska Aston (1814-1871). Actors of a radical change. Berlin: Fides
2014 "Germany must live, even if we must die!" Poems for the World War 1914-1918. The Märker. Lüdenscheid: Märkischer Kreis
2016 "Epoch change" 1968/69 in Iserlohn and the consequences for the city and parties. The Märker. Lüdenscheid: Märkischer Kreis
2017 "We don't have sweet speeches ...". Emil Rittershaus and the Westphalia song. Literature in Westphalia. Contributions to research 15. Bielefeld: Aisthesis
2017 Ferdinand Freiligrath and Iserlohn. Maintenance of tradition, reception and appropriations. Grabbe Yearbook 2017. Bielefeld: Aisthesis
2018 literary history of Iserlohn. Literature and literature business in Iserlohn 1945-1965. Restart or false start? / Literature and literature business in Iserlohn after 1965. Province as used or missed opportunity? Literature in Westphalia. Contributions to research 16. Bielefeld: Aisthesis

Karr-Wehner

Detective novels

1992 Berber Summer (Stories), A4-Vlg, OA
1994 Geierfrühling, Haffmans Verlag, OA HC (GONZO-Roman # 1) (also e-book)
1995 Rattensommer, Haffmans Verlag, OA HC (GONZO-Roman # 2) (also e-book)
1996 Bloody Summer, Henselowsky Boschmann, OA HC
1997 Deadly Books, literacard, Delius, OA
1997 Hühnerherbst, Haffmans Verlag, OA HC (GONZO-Novel # 3) (also e-book)
1998 A nasty surprise ( chain novel with Gisbert Haefs with Frank Göhre, Janwillem van de Wetering, DB Blettenberg, Uta-Maria Heim, Jürgen Alberts, Helmut Ziegler, Peter Zeindler, Gunter Gerlach, Peter Schmidt, Robert Lynn, -ky, Tatjana Kruse, Robert Brack, Daniel Douglas Wissmann, Regula Venske, Thea Dorn, Georg M. Oswald, Ann Camones, Hartmut Mechtel, Virginia Doyle and Norbert Klugmann) (rororo 43296) OA
1999 Bullenwinter, Haffmans Verlag, Raben Krimi 8, OA HC (GONZO-Novel # 4) (also e-book)
1999 as " Mike Jaeger ": OMEGA-TEAM - Eurokiller, rororo 43375, OA
2000 The John Lennon plot (youth thriller), Verlag der Criminale, OA (also e-book)
2000 The summit (chain novel, together with Doris Gercke, Ingrid Noll, Edith Kneifl, Regula Venske, Frank Göhre, Gisbert Haefs, Robert Hältner and Jürgen Alberts) Heyne, OA HC
2010 Feuerspiele (youth crime thriller) Verlag an der Ruhr, OA
2011 Snow Kings (youth thriller) Verlag an der Ruhr, OA
2012 Rania, Verlag Literatur Quickie, OA (also e-book)
2013 Gonzo - Die Classics, (Stories), (E-Book)
2013 Gonzo !, (Stories), (E-Book)
2013 Essen Stories, (Stories), (E-Book)
2015 Gonzo crime series complete edition, Verlag Klartext

Radio plays

1989 black box B1. Radio novel. Episode 9. Life is half death or: Yesterday was today still tomorrow. WDR, 60 min
1990 black box B1. Radio novel. Episode 14. Life, love, death or: PR and the consequences. WDR 60 min
1990 black box B1. Radio novel. Episode 23. Night Express or: The Snow in the Gardens. WDR, 75 minutes.
1992 Road free, WDR / BR 50 min
1992 Berberstar, ORB 15 min
1993 Seventeen wins, RB 50 min,
1994 Key drive, SFB / BR 50 min
1994 Die Schöner, WDR, 50 min
1995 Jezz abba festivals: Haste something in view, WDR 50 min
1995 (with Bernd Behrendt, Gabriele Kraiczek, Hartmut Przybilski, Eva Maria Striewe and Walter Wehner) Jezz abba festivities: Beautiful presents from everyone, WDR 55 min
1996 Jezz abba fests: At the height you have to stop WDR, 60 min
1996 Jezz abba fests: Get up again and again, WDR, 60 min
1999 Graceland. A gonzo radio play, MDR, 45 min

Internet project

2000f INSELSCHICKSALE - From Robinson's island to political utopia to the media world. Internet catalog on robinsonades

Awards

1985 Prize at the state competition for authors in North Rhine-Westphalia
1985 Culture Prize of the City of Velbert
1986 Ruhr Area Literature Prize (sponsorship prize)
1988 Walter Serner Prize from Sender Free Berlin (with Reinhard Jahn ) for night travel
1989 Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize of the City of Aachen (with Reinhard Jahn ) for Angela, my angel
1989 Ruhr area literary award / sponsorship award (with Reinhard Jahn ) for Berber summer
1996 Friedrich Glauser Prize (with Reinhard Jahn ) for rat summer
2000 Ruhr Area Literature Prize (with Reinhard Jahn )
2012 1st price short story competition neobooks (with Reinhard Jahn ) for Rania
2012 Westphalian Short Radio Play Award (with Reinhard Jahn ) for The Robinson Dilemma
2013 Postpoetry for snapshot
2018 Friedrich Glauser Prize for Best Crime Short Story (with Reinhard Jahn ) for Here in Tremonia

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Wehner, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Werdohl