Wolfgang Burger

Wolfgang Burger (* 3. October 1952 in Oberwihl ) is a German engineer and writer of detective novels .

life and work

Burger grew up in Bad Säckingen and studied electrical engineering and medical technology in Karlsruhe . In 1993 he received his doctorate and until 2015, Burger headed a research department at the Institute for Product Development at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . He has been writing crime novels since 1995. He lives alternately in Karlsruhe and Regensburg and is married to crime writer Hilde Artmeier . Burger has three daughters.

The majority of his crime novels have crime scenes in the northern Baden cities of Karlsruhe and Heidelberg and can be classified as regional crime novels - although the author himself does not appreciate this categorization very much. The main character and first-person narrator of the Heidelberg crime series is chief detective Alexander Gerlach. The man in his mid-forties is the head of the Heidelberg Criminal Police , a friend of jazz and women, widowed and father of teenage twin daughters. In addition to the often subtly constructed plot, the relationship with the two daughters, the romantic affair with his lover Theresa, as well as the relationship with his subordinate colleagues Sven Balke and Klara Vangelis, as well as his secretary Sonja "Sönnchen" Walldorf, are the focus of the novels. The novel Echo of a Night recalls the case of the missing Madelaine McCann in many details .

Works

Commissioner Petzold series

• Murder traffic , Zebulon, Cologne 1998, ISBN 978-3-928-67956-5 .
• Marias Sohn , Elefanten Press, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-885-20914-0 .
• Project Dark Eye , Espresso, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-885-20921-8 ( surface fire (revised new edition of Project Dark Eye ), Emons Verlag , Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-89705-330-4 ).
• Abbeucht , Emons Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-89705-303-8 .
• Erased , Emons Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-89705-428-8 .

Alexander Gerlach series

• Heidelberg Requiem , Piper Verlag , Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-492-24217-2 .
• Heidelberger Lügen , Piper Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-24491-6 .
• Heidelberger Wut , Piper Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-24786-3 .
• Black fever , Piper Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-25119-8 .
• Echo of a night , Piper Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-25240-9 .
• Ice cold silence , Piper Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25473-1 .
• The fifth murderer , Piper Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-25743-5 .
• The wrong woman , Piper Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-27258-2 .
• The forgotten girl , Piper Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-27259-9 .
• The dark villa , Piper Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-492-30337-8 .
• Deadly Beloved , Piper Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-492-06006-6 .
• Three days in May , Piper Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-06018-9 .
• Sleep, little angel, sleep , Piper Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-492-06030-1 .
• The left hand of evil , Piper Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-06031-8 .
• Whom death cheats , Piper Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-06032-5 .
• When revenge is not enough , Piper Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-06153-7 .

Other crime novels

• The murder of Hippocrates , Leda, Leer 2003, ISBN 978-3-939-68936-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Burger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website from the author duo Wolfgang Burger & Hilde Artmeier

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bio and bibliography Wolfgang Burger. In: www.burger-artmeier.com. Retrieved April 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Novel page on Wolfgang Burger's website ( memento from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ klappeauf.de: Interview with Wolfgang Burger ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) http://klappeauf.de/php/inhalte/index.php?id=6527 ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) .