Werner Schmitz (writer)

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Werner Schmitz (born June 3, 1948 in Bochum ) is a German writer .

Life

Werner Schmitz comes from a working class family . He grew up in Wattenscheid and attended grammar school up to secondary school . He then worked for 15 years in the Bochum city ​​administration , most recently as chief inspector in the civil engineering department . Schmitz 'active membership in the DKP led his employer to bring proceedings against him in accordance with the radical decree . Schmitz then switched to journalism and was a reporter for the city ​​magazine Marabo ; from 1989 to 2007 he was part of the Stern editorial team . He lives in Bochum.

Werner Schmitz is the author of socially critical crime novels and reports , and he also translated three books by Robert Ruark from the American. Since 2018 there has been a partly autobiographical story on the author's personal website: Ten blows on the buttocks or stumbling block for a Nazi.

Publications

Fiction
  • Seamless brown. Detective novel. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88142-323-0 (Weltkreis-Krimi; 323).
  • Advance service. Detective novel. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1985, ISBN 3-88142-353-2 (Weltkreis-Krimi; 353).
  • Hell come out. Detective novel. Grafit Verlag, Dortmund 1993, ISBN 3-89425-421-1 (8th edition, reprint of the edition of Weltkreis, Cologne 1987).
  • Real murder. True crime stories. Grafit-Verlag, Dortmund 1994, ISBN 3-89425-049-6 .
  • The Carpathian Project. Detective novel. Grafit-Verlag, Dortmund 2010, ISBN 978-3-89425-371-4 .
  • Forest of the Dead Hunters: Scribe under suspicion of murder. Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-440-15221-8 .
  • Dead hunters don't shoot: Schreiber and the wolf. Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-440-15814-2 .
  • Death of a Slayer: Scribe and the Buffalo. Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-440-16839-4 .
Non-fiction
  • Patchwork. 24 reports from the Ruhr. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1988, ISBN 3-88142-433-4 (together with Leo P. Ard ).
  • I get up with the sun. A farmer from Transylvania talks about her life. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-7843-5081-3 .
  • Praise the hunt. Of hunting, deer and highlanders. Franckh Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-440-12790-2 (together with Eckhard Fuhr )
  • On safari. Legendary African hunters from Alvensleben to Zwilling. Franckh-Kosmos-Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-440-14007-9 (together with Rolf D. Baldus)

Radio plays

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum