Willi Schissler

Willi Schissler

Willi Schissler , actually Wilhelm Heinrich Schissler , (born December 12, 1949 in Nieder-Klingen ) is a German writer of regional crime novels .

Life

Wilhelm Heinrich Schissler was born in Nieder-Klingen in 1949 as the youngest son of Karoline Schissler and the well-known master tailor Heinrich Schissler. He first attended elementary school in his home town, then switched to the Max Planck Gymnasium in Groß-Umstadt , which he left with secondary school leaving certificate. He was enthusiastic about football from an early age, and at the age of nine he started playing in the then newly formed student team at TV 1921 Nieder-Klingen. In his hometown club he was a coach of the youth teams and active player of all team classes up to the old men , today he is still a regular guest of the footballer regulars' table . After his apprenticeship and apprenticeship at the then independent savings and loan fund Lengfeld , he moved to AC Nielsen in 1970 , an institute for market research , where he worked until he started working part-time in retirement . Since then he has devoted himself to his long-standing dream of writing crime novels with regional references. Willi Schissler lives with his wife Karin, whom he met in 1970 on the curb of his birthplace, in the Otzberg district of Nieder-Klingen. You have a grown daughter. Willi Schissler loves music, literature and distant countries, especially Africa, the Rolling Stones and crime novels. In 2010 the great Africa fan traveled to Namibia with his wife , where he gained new impressions, experienced the diverse fauna and got to know the country and its people. The Nibelungensteig , Franconian Switzerland and various Odenwald hikes are regular destinations for his hiking group. In 2010 Schissler founded the Klinger Storch group with like-minded people and is now committed to the resettlement and continued existence of the Odenwald storks with 182 members.

Odenwald crime novels

In the shadow of the fortress was the title of the first Odenwald crime novel by Willi Schissler, a detective novel that was written in Otzberg and the plot of which is largely set in the Otzberg region. Shortly before his partial retirement, Schissler came up with the idea of ​​writing a book. With the support and advice of crime writer Rainer Witt from the Hessischer Rundfunk , he began to write the crime novel in 2008, in which he describes familiar streets and the TV sports hall in Nieder-Klingen to his readers. The plot depicts the murders of a well-known television reporter and an actress. Heiner Dröger , chief inspector at the Darmstadt criminal police, and his colleagues are leading the investigation into a bizarre environment, including in Andalusia , where the Schissler family spends their holidays every year.

Funk Jewelers, 2014 published, the second crime novel Blood Red Pinot Noir , plays in and around the Odenwald wine island Gross-Umstadt , where, during the grape harvest festival found a body in a red tank man on Wall Street and a woman dead from the Gersprenz in Gross-Zimmern were recovered .

In his third Odenwald thriller Tödliche Freundschaften from 2015, a young woman is found hanged in Nieder-Klingen and a jewelry shop is robbed in the Odenwald district town of Erbach . The investigations are carried out by the chief detective Dröger and Fränkli from the police headquarters in South Hesse , as well as the chief superintendent Kersten and Hummel from the regional criminal inspection in Erbach . The cover picture with the Eulbacher Park was designed by the Otzberg artist Jens Rotzsche.

In the Stream of Crime , Schissler's fourth novel from 2017, a woman and her two children are kidnapped. A dead woman lies in a sauna with her eyes wide open, a prostitute is severely abused by a stranger, and a severed finger is found in the forest, followed by a stabbed woman. All crimes revolve around the shipowner Jo Merdinger and the cargo ship MS Cristan von Hoiste.

In Schissler's fifth detective novel Drei Sünden , which appeared in 2019, after three mysterious murder cases of blonde women, the human abysses of the population around the tranquil places around Reinheim are exposed within a short time in the course of the police investigations, which are terrifyingly close to drug consumption, Demonstrate gambling and prostitution around the victims. The investigation team of Heiner Dröger and Benedikt Semmelweiß, known from earlier novels, is complemented by the young inspector Sina Cohrs.

Works

• In the shadow of the fortress: Odenwald-Krimi, Verlag M. Naumann, Hanau, 2012, ISBN 978-3943206098
• Blood-red Pinot Noir: Odenwald-Krimi, Verlag M. Naumann, Hanau, 2014, ISBN 978-3943206272
• Deadly friendships: Odenwald-Krimi, Verlag M. Naumann, Hanau, 2015, ISBN 978-3943206333
• In the stream of crime: Dangerous pavement Mümlingtal, Verlag M. Naumann, Oberhaching, 2017, ISBN 978-3943206449
• Three sins: Deadly encounters in the Gersprenztal, Odenwald-Verlag, Otzberg-Zipfen, 2019, ISBN 978-3748157663

Web links

• Author's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martina Emmerich: People so alive . Verlag Franz-Peter Vollrath, Reinheim May 4, 2012, p. 6 .
2. ^ Willi Schissler: Blood-red Pinot Noir . 1st edition. M. Naumann, Hanau 2014, ISBN 978-3-943206-27-2 , pp. Preface and Acknowledgments .
3. ↑ Klinger Storch. Retrieved November 5, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Murderers and lecherous cavort in the shadow of the fortress . Darmstädter Echo , Darmstadt April 18, 2012, p. 14 .
5. ↑ In the shadow of the fortress . Otzberg-Bote, Groß-Umstadt May 31, 2012, p. 3 .
6. ↑ Death in a red wine barrel . Darmstädter Echo , Darmstadt November 14, 2014, p. 12 .
7. ^ Tensions with "Deadly Friendships" . Advertising paper Gerzprenztal, Reinheim October 7, 2015, p. 4 .
8. ↑ A lot of tension with Schissler's "Im Strom des Verbrechens" . Otzberg-Bote, Groß-Umstadt March 16, 2017.
9. ↑ Deadly encounters in the Gersprenz valley "Three Sins" . Odenwälder Journal, Lützelbach February 7, 2019.