Wolfgang Brenner

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Wolfgang Brenner

Wolfgang Brenner (born November 12, 1954 in Quiigart , Saarland ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Wolfgang Brenner studied German and philosophy at the universities in Trier and Berlin . He then worked as a journalist; From 1987 to 1991 he was part of the cinema editorial team of the Berlin city ​​magazine Tip . As a journalist and essayist, he wrote for various newspapers and magazines - including the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Berliner Tagesspiegel , the Rheinische Merkur and the Frankfurter Rundschau . In the Sunday edition of the FAZ , the Schmalenbach columns appeared for more than 17 years - satirically pointed episodes from the everyday life of an established, aging old 68er .

Brenner has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin and in the Hunsrück since the 1990s . He wrote several novels , satires , radio plays , radio features and scripts for television crime novels (including for the series Tatort and Polizeiruf 110 ) as well as for documentaries ; he directed some of the latter himself. In addition to local thrillers, the action of which is mostly set in the Saarland - Luxembourg - French border region, he wrote two essayistic biographies: one about Walther Rathenau , the DDP politician and foreign minister of the Weimar Republic , and about the Saarland- Soviet model young pioneer Hubert L ' Hoste .

Awards

• 2007: Krimifuchs (Berlin)
• 2018: Friedrich Schiedel Literature Prize for Between End and Beginning - Post-War Years in Germany

Works

• Welcome, Ossi! , Diogenes Verlag , Zurich 1993, ISBN 978-3-257-22722-2
• Vegetarian Christmas. A goose story with five meatless meat menus (with Waldemar Thomas and Klaus Puth), Piper Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1996. ISBN 978-3-492-24547-0
• Schmalenbach. A novel puzzle in 30 parts , Eichborn Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-821-80557-3
• Stieber , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-821-80487-3
• Everyone loves Billy. Stories, tips and reports about our favorite furniture store (with Frank Johannsen), Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-821-83478-8
• Der Patriot , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-821-80548-1
• The execution , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-821-80830-7
• Der Adjutant , dtv , Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-423-24355-1
• The worst things always happen in the morning. Stories with Schmalenbach , dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-423-20728-7
• Walther Rathenau. Deutscher und Jude , Piper Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-492-04758-6
• I thought it was something bad. New stories with Schmalenbach , dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-20952-6
• Bollinger and the hairdresser. A borderline case , dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-24579-1
• Bollinger and the Barbarians. A new borderline case , dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-24634-7
• Guideless , Be.bra Verlag , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-861-24622-0
• Honecker's mistress , Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-897-73590-3
• 1924: Stinnes is dead. Kappe's eighth case (from the series: It happened in Berlin), Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-897-73601-6
• Elke understands that , dtv, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-21245-8
• Going it alone , Gmeiner-Verlag , Meßkirch 2012, ISBN 978-3-839-21227-1
• Hubert in wonderland. From the Saar region to red Moscow. Conte Verlag , Saarbrücken 2012, ISBN 978-3-941-65738-0
• But mother cries a lot. Albrecht Knaus Verlag , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8135-0503-0
• Between the end and the beginning. Post-war years in Germany , dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-28106-5

Filmography

• 1995: Police call 110: Grrawe's last case (TV)
• 1995–1996: The Airport Clinic (TV series, six episodes)
• 1997: The Murder Movie (TV series, two episodes)
• 1997, 1999: Maître Da Costa (TV series, two episodes)
• 1997: Tatort - Brothers (TV)
• 1998: The Aviator's Courage (TV)
• 1999: Silent Scream - A Woman in Peril (TV)
• 1999: Home Front (TV series, episode)
• 2006: A love in Königsberg (TV)

Web links

• Wolfgang Brenner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Wolfgang Brenner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence of Wolfgang Brenner
• Entry on the author at krimilexikon.de

supporting documents

1. ^ Schiedel Literature Prize to Wolfgang Brenner , Börsenblatt dated June 29, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018