Wilfried Eggers

Wilfried Eggers (* 1951 in Drochtersen ) is a German lawyer and crime writer .

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Eggers was the son of a farming family. After graduating from high school in 1969, he studied law and Scandinavian languages ( Norwegian , Icelandic ) in Kiel . He went on extensive language and educational trips on foot between Galway , Reykjavík and Narvik . Eggers has been working as an independent lawyer since 1979 and as a notary in Drochtersen in the Weser-Elbe triangle since 1982 . He is married and has three children (born in 1982, 1984 and 1988).

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Eggers has published four crime novels so far. They take place in his homeland, the moorland on the so-called Krimi-Strasse in the crime scene Kehdingen-Oste, where a noticeable cluster of crime writers and locations can be seen. His thrillers are characterized by a dense atmosphere, descriptions of the milieu, especially of the rural world and the judicial system, the careful characterization of the protagonists and Low German dialogues. The novel Paragraf 301 , published in 2008, was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize in 2009. His fourth book, Die oder ich , was published in September 2011 .

Works

• The dead man, the farmer, his lawyer and others . Grafit, Dortmund 2000, ISBN 3-89425-233-2
• Brick fire . Grafit, Dortmund 2003, ISBN 3-89425-277-4
• Section 301 . Grafit, Dortmund September 2008, ISBN 978-3-89425-658-6
• You or me . Grafit, Dortmund September 2011, ISBN 978-3-89425-389-9

literature

• Road to the afterlife . In: Die Zeit , No. 49/2004; via Deutsche Krimi-Straße

Web links

• Homepage of the Krimiland Kehdingen-Oste
• Homepage of the Deutsche Krimi-Strasse
• Homepage of the author
• Literature by and about Wilfried Eggers in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard Goltz, Ulf-Thomas Lesle (ed.): Dat Land so free un wiet . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-40026-4 .
2. ↑ The Friedrich Glauser Prize . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 23, 2009