Born 4th August 1946 in Kirchen on Sieg
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| 1966 | |
School leaving exams | |
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Studies German, Politics and History in Tübingen and Bremen
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| since 1970 | |
Member of the Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt (Work group for Professional and Amateur Writers)
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Spiritus Rector of the Bremen Literarischen Asservatenkammer (Literary Evidence Vault) the first German crime fiction library | ||
| 1973 | |
Gains doctorate in Communications and Aesthetics at the University of Bremen on the topic ‘Mass media as ideology factory in the case of BILD (a German tabloid-style newspaper)'
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| since 1987 | |
Member of the Author’s Group for German Crime Literature ‘Das Syndikat’ (The Syndicate)
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| 1988 | |
Syndikat’s Prize for the best German-language Crime novel
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| 1988 | |
Glauser Authors’ Prize for German Crime Literature
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| 1990 | |
CIVIS Prize of the WDR media network and the Freudenberg Foundation | |
| 1990 - 1991 | |
Speaker for ‘Das Syndikat’
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| 1992 | |
Walter Serner Prize of the SFB (Sender Freies Berlin, a German broadcasting service)
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| 1994 | |
German Crime Fiction Prize | |
| 1995 | |
Grant from the German Literature Fund in Darmstadt
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| 1997 | |
Marlowe Prize from the Raymond Chandler Society
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| since 1997 | |
Organiser of the Bremen Crime Festival ‘Prime Time Crime Time’
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| 2001 - 2005 | |
Return as speaker of ‘Das Syndikat’ Teaching creative writing in Germany and abroad He has also written numerous crime novels and radio plays
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