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Wolfgang Ecke (born November 24, 1927 in Radebeul , † October 24, 1983 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German writer . He became known for his radio plays and books, mainly crime novels for children and young people.

Live and act

In 1940, Ecke went to a military boarding school in Bückeburg and was probably drafted into military service shortly before the end of the war. After 1945 he attended the Dresden University of Music and Theater. But since he was a “non-worker and farmer child”, he was expelled from the university in Dresden after only two semesters. Corner then moved to West Germany. From then on he worked in various fields, including a. as an interpreter , sailor , smuggler , waiter , drummer and arranger, civil servant, advertising manager and reporter .

In 1955, Ecke wrote his first radio play, which was followed by hundreds more. From 1964 he published his crime stories in books.

Wolfgang Ecke was killed in a car accident in 1983 when he tried to avoid a cow with his vehicle.

He has written over 600 radio plays, innumerable of which, like most of his books, have been translated into many languages. He was a permanent contributor to radio stations at home and abroad, wrote for youth magazines and produced records.

Works

Wolfgang Eckes works for children and young people are characterized by puzzles and a realistic ambience. Ecke's most popular characters include the London department store detective Perry Clifton , who consists of nine books on his shared adventures with his neighbor's son Dicki Miller, and the heavyweight, buttermilk-drinking master detective Balduin Pfiff .

Beginning with the series Who cracks the nut , Ecke also wrote crime novels, at the end of which the young readers have to guess the perpetrator themselves. This concept was continued under the name Club of Detectives , whose cases can be solved by a logical combination or sometimes by a single reference to a picture that belonged to the relevant story.

All in all, it wasn't the brutal crime that mattered to him, but rather the thought-provoking and bloodless stories.

Books

1964 to 1969

  • 1964 The man with the red top hat , Loewes Verlag OA (RAV 251)
  • 1964 Perry Clifton 1: The gentleman with the gray trousers , Loewes Verlag OA (RAV 144)
  • 1965 The hunt for the yellow crocodile , Loewes Verlag OA (RAV 292)
  • 1965 Perry Clifton 2: The lady with the black dachshund , Loewes Verlag OA
  • 1966 Who cracks the nut I (6 radio riddles) (RAV 96) OA
  • 1966 Perry Clifton 3: The secret of the white ravens , Loewes Verlag, OA HC
  • 1966 Who cracks the nut I (guessing thriller) (RAV 86)
  • 1966 Escape (novel) Herold Verlag OA
  • 1968 Who cracks the nut II (6 guessing crime radio plays) (RAV 131)
  • 1969 Perry Clifton 4: The Island of the Blue Hoods , Loewes Verlag OA HC
  • 1969 emergency landing on Takanawe (new 1975 as RAV 342)
  • 1969 emergency landing on Takanawe and five more stories

1970 to 1974

  • 1971 crime stories
  • 1971 Club of Detectives 1: The Castle of the Red Monkeys (25 Stories) (RAV 208) OA
  • 1972 Club of Detectives 2: The Man in Black (20 crime thrillers) (RAV 214) OA
  • 1972 Club of Detectives 3: The Face on the Window (RAV 221)
  • 1972 Detective Club 4: Solo for Melodica (RAV 227)
  • 1973 Detective Club 5: The Secret of the Old Junk (20 Stories) (RAV 264)
  • 1974 Detective Club 6: The House of 99 Ghosts (Stories) (RAV 306)
  • 1974 Club of Detectives (Ed.): Erben auf Schottisch (40 crime thrillers) (RAV 315) OA
  • 1974 Club of Detectives Gold Edition
  • 1974 Perry Clifton 5: The Eerie House of Hackston , Loewes-Verlag OA HC

1975 to 1979

  • 1975 Who cracks the nut III (guessing thriller) (RAV 336)
  • 1975 giggle stories (RAV 337)
  • 1975 Perry Clifton 6: The mysterious face , Loewes-Verlag OA HC
  • 1976 (Ed.) Wolfgang Eckes Kriminalmagazin No. 1 (RAV 348)
  • 1976 (Ed.) Wolfgang Eckes Kriminalmagazin No. 2 (RAV 387)
  • 1976 Master detective Balduin Pfiff: The secret of the music box
  • 1976 Master detective Balduin Whistle: Haunted after midnight (RAV 736)
  • 1976 Master detective Balduin Pfiff: A handful of thieves (RAV 790)
  • 1976 Club of Detectives 7: Chess at full moon (stories) (RAV 365)
  • 1976 Tom Knall and the Dragonfly: The Treasure Hunters , Herold Verlag Brück, Stuttgart. with drawings by Rolf Rettich ; Licensed edition 1980, RAV 604, ISBN 3-473-38604-9 .
  • 1977 Perry Clifton 7: The Silver Buddha , Loewes Verlag, OA HC
  • 1977 Master detective Balduin Pfiff: The bronze robbers (RAV 842)
  • 1977 (Ed.) Wolfgang Eckes Kriminalmagazin No. 3 (RAV 425)
  • 1977 Tom Knall and the Dragonfly: The Valley of the Apes (Herold)
  • 1977 Club of Detectives 8: The Invisible Witness (20 Stories) (RAV 403) OA
  • 1977 Hands up or I'll laugh
  • 1977 Master detective Balduin Pfiff: The horror of all spirits , Loewes Verlag
  • 1978 Club of Detectives (Otto Maier)
  • 1978 The great Wolfgang Ecke book (anthology) (Loewes)
  • 1978 (Ed.) Wolfgang Eckes Kriminalmagazin No. 4 (RAV 480)
  • 1978 Tom Knall and the Dragonfly: The Castle of the Big Ghosts , Herold Verlag OA
  • 1979 Perry Clifton 8: Pink carnation spy ring (stories) Loewes Verlag OA HC
  • 1979 Criminalistic Schmunzelkabinett (RAV 500)
  • 1979 Balduin Pfiff lay down on his stomach and flattened himself like a flounder , Loewes Verlag

1980 to 1987

  • 1980 Hands Up Or I'll Laugh (RAV 640) (Compilation)
  • 1981 Detective's Club 9: A crook plays the harmonica (guessing thriller) (RAV 650) OA
  • 1981 Perry Clifton 9: Perry Clifton and the Unusual Legacy (RAV 689)
  • 1981 Wolfgang Eckes Kriminalmagazin No. 5 (RAV 704)
  • 1981 crooks, tricks and detectives. Case by case a case to read
  • 1982 The enchanted goose
  • 1982 Soft landing with a bang
  • 1982 jewels, bluff and gray curls
  • 1983 Detective Club 10: No Trace of Paul Crabbley (10 Stories) (RAV 861) OA
  • 1983 Long fingers nimble legs (RAV 888)
  • 1984 Ghosts, spooks and night ghosts
  • 1985 Perry Clifton 10: Die Hand , Loewes Verlag, HC
  • 1986 Club of Detectives 11: The Secret of the 13 Diamonds (Stories). With pictures by Manfred Schlueter . (RAV 1539) OA
  • 1987 crooks, gangsters, flashes of inspiration (compilation) Ravensburger

Year of publication unknown

  • Attention flap. The suffering of the master detective when he became a movie star
  • The secret of the thirteen diamonds
  • The super brains club
  • Driven hunt
  • The night of the blue hoods
  • Master detective Balduin whistle: The bronze robber. The pop phone
  • Master detective Balduin whistle. Old aunt's trick
  • Master detective Balduin whistle. In the realm of crooks. A fantastic picture story
  • Master detective Balduin Pfiff: Operation Rattlesnake. And two more exciting adventures

watch TV

  • Who Cracks the Nut (eight-part series)
  • Pay attention, join in (eight-part series)

Radio

  • 1963 The gentleman in the gray trousers , four parts (1. Lester MacDunnegan's estate , 2. part Perry Clifton's great hour , 3. The secret of the hunting lodge , 4. The sensation in London , 23 minutes each), WDR
  • 1964 The Lady with the Black Dachshund , four parts (1. Who saw Jocky?, 2. The houseboat on the Thames , 3. The wallpaper door , 4. The twin sister , 23 minutes each), WDR
  • The Lady with the Black Dachshund (BR, 1964)
  • The Island of the Blue Hoods (BR, 1968)
  • The hand (BR, 1978)
  • Driven hunt (BR, 1973)
  • The Silver Buddha (crime series radio play)
  • The secret of the white ravens (crime series radio play)
  • The island of the blue hoods (crime series radio play)
  • Perry Clifton and the Eerie House (crime series radio play)
  • The man with the red top hat (crime series radio play)
  • The hunt for the yellow crocodile (crime series radio play)
  • The Secret of Dr X (utopian radio play series)
  • Where is 2 × 15 (utopian radio play series)
  • 2 × 16 calls on waves 1-4-1 (utopian radio play series)
  • Space control ship Wega I (utopian radio play series)
  • My black grandson Jacky
  • Escape: The story of a trip from Germany to Germany
  • 1969 emergency landing on Takanawe
  • A balloon from Varnäs
  • How Cisko got his donkey twice
  • Natascha and the thieves
  • Jacques the thief
  • A mysterious passenger
  • Haunted Miami
  • A case for Archibald Trix
  • Assault on the Tulip Express
  • The blue box
  • The thing about the stamps
  • Looking for a man with a cello
  • Clarissa shouldn't start
  • Pearls from Hokkaido
  • An uninvited guest
  • Just one item of alarm clock
  • A period of 24 hours
  • An eerie night
  • Witching hour
  • A case for Perry Clifton
  • Incident in Istanbul
  • 90,000 francs wanted
  • A handful of notes
  • Private detective Balduin Pfiff (crime series radio play)
  • Pimboddy traveled 1st class
  • Two small favors
  • Solo for melodica
  • Santa Claus wanted
  • His friend the emperor
  • Luftagentur Tom Knall (adventure radio play series)
  • Roberto and the organ grinder
  • What is wrong with Napoleon
  • 1962 John MacLean's Christmas tree
  • The trip to White Horse
  • The fairy tale journey (fantastic radio play series)
  • Abdul Hammed's ruse
  • The valley of a thousand trees
  • Four red and four white balls (fantastic radio play series)
  • Mohammed the horse boy
  • Tao Chang, the curmudgeon
  • Travel companion Teddy Poppke
  • The Eerie House of Hackston (crime series radio play)
  • The mysterious face (crime series radio play)
  • The duel
  • The third ear
  • Deadly rendezvous
  • The stroke of genius
  • Tom Bang and the Dragonfly

theatre

  • 1968 The secret of the white ravens
  • 1974 The secret of the old junk
  • 1974 The face on the window
  • 1976 Hackston's Creepy House
  • 1976 The silver Buddha
  • 1976 The island of the blue hoods
  • 1976 The man with the red top hat
  • 1976 Tom Knall and the Dragonfly 1
  • 1977 Tom Knall and the Dragonfly 2
  • Baldwin whistle 1
  • Baldwin whistle 2

Awards

For more than five million paperbacks sold, Wolfgang Ecke received a total of 5 "golden paperbacks" from Ravensburger Buchverlag.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General information on the "golden paperback" , accessed on January 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Publisher's information on "The Secret of the 13 Diamonds", 6th edition, 1992
personal data
SURNAME Corner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Radebeul
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1983
Place of death Murnau am Staffelsee