Wulf Dorn

Wulf Dorn (born April 20, 1969 in Ichenhausen ) is a German writer and thriller author.

life and work

Dorn completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk and foreign language correspondent and worked for twenty years in the care of psychiatric patients. Today he lives as a freelance writer near Ulm .

He began his literary work with horror short stories that appeared in the Pandaimonion series published by Wurdack-Verlag . His first novel Trigger was a surprise success in 2009 and was published in translation in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Greece, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey and the Netherlands. Wulf Dorn read the audio book version himself, while his other audio books were spoken by David Nathan and Laura Maire . His other novels have also been translated into numerous languages ​​and became bestsellers in several countries.

Recurring themes in Dorn's novels are guilt, loss, everyday evil and psychological phenomena. The setting of the first four novels is the area around the fictional town of Fahlenberg, while most of the plot of Phobia takes place in London .

Works

Novels

• Trigger . Psychological thriller. Heyne Verlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-43402-8 .
• Cold silence . Thriller. Heyne Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-26686-5 .
• Dark delusion . Thriller. Heyne Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-26705-3 .
• Phobia . Thriller. Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-26733-6 .
• The children . Thriller, Heyne Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-27094-7 .

Youth books

• My evil heart . Thriller. cbt , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-16095-4 .
• The night belongs to the wolves . Thriller. cbt, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-16397-9 .
• 21 - Dark Companions . Thriller. cbj , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-570-16524-9 .

Short stories (excerpt)

• Beyond the wall . Contribution in: Karla Schmidt (Ed.): Hinterland . Nittendorf: Wurdack 2010. ISBN 978-3-938065-69-3 .
• Holdover . Contribution in: Uta Rupprecht (Ed.): Alle Morde again . Rowohlt Verlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-8052-5029-0 .
• Click! . Contribution in: Jan Costin Wagner (Ed.): Dead Silence Night . Rowohlt Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-499-25598-4 .

Audiobooks (excerpt)

• 2009: Trigger , Random House Audio Cologne, read by the author, abbreviated 6 CDs 433 min., ISBN 978-3837102444 .
• 2010: Kalte Stille , Lübbe Audio Cologne, read by David Nathan , 6 CDs 431 min., ISBN 978-3785744390 .
• 2011: Dunkler Wahn , Random House Cologne, audio, read by David Nathan , unabridged, download 650 min.
• 2012: My bad heart , cbj Audio Munich, read by Laura Maire , abridged 5 CDs 327 min., ISBN 978-3-8371-1323-5 .
• 2013: Phobia , Random House Cologne, audio, read by David Nathan , unabridged, audio book download, playing time: 9 hours and 9 minutes.
• 2017: Die Kinder , Random House Audio, Cologne, read by David Nathan, abridged, 1 CD, 468 min., ISBN 978-3-8371-3781-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wulf Dorn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author homepage
• Wulf Dorn at the Random House publishing group
• Review of Trigger on the Crime Couch
• Review of Cold Silence on the Crime Couch