Thrillers are one of the ongoing favorites in the book of acts. But where did all the stories come from? We asked: at the crime writers Johannes Groschupf and Dror Mishani.
In the book of acts, the literary publications of this books autumn stack. At the Frankfurt book fair on 16. October starts, will once again be showcasing the Latest and Recent one of the international books of the world. Publishers from all over the world are advertising with elaborate Events, press conferences and exclusive author interviews at the booth to beat.
But a literary genre does not need all these expenses, because they recorded numbers in decades, a continuous increase in sales and worldwide on fidelity, especially female readers can rely: the crime literature.
Every year, thousands of thrillers to be published, the book tables are full of them. Each country has its own crime-and-traditions. And new crime genre and current Crime locations to dive. But where are the crime authors take their stuff? What you draw, the stories, where you can discover your protagonists? We have determined during the mystery festival “Crime Cologne” in the scene.
The most Important thing: a well-researched Plot
“Good crime authors often come from the journalism,” says crime expert, Ingrid Müller-Münch, who has worked for many years as a court reporter for the Frankfurter Rundschau and today’s crime novels reviewed. “There are also police officers who write. And government officials or diplomats, the writing crime fiction. There are even EU commissioners, who write thrillers. But there are especially a lot of people from the journalism in the crime industry, because the can just do research,” she explains Interview in the DW.
“In front of the Job in the Newsroom, I went for a run. Through the dark Görlitzer Park, past the hustlers and drug-dealers, young men from Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, the gravel path down to the river spree…” (from “Berlin Prepper”, 2019)
Johannes Groschupf
The Thriller “the Berlin Prepper” is the first crime novel of the journalist Johannes Groschupf. So far, he has written children’s books and feature stories for Newspapers. At night he works in a large Berlin newspaper publishing as an Online editor, edited, and moderated the daily readers ‘ comments on the net.
“We were censorship whores, propaganda, servants, Mess. And again, this Jargon-staggered the pit of me, a punch in the stomach.” (“Berlin Prepper”)
Cover of “Berlin Prepper”
A lot of them are vile hatred and Hetzkommentare, verbal word garbage, the layer spreads in every Editorial on his Computer screen. “These violent fantasies to go to a very,” he admits in the interview -. “Much of it is earlier believed to have been spoken at the table – behind closed doors -. And now it is publicly available on the Internet.”
In a hamster wheel of hatred comments
The worst of the comments collected Groschupf and in his novel processed. His criminal history to be an attempted manslaughter plays in the Prepper scene. Prepper’s are people who are hoarding food, or arsenals of weapons for an impending disaster.
In the network they call “Rambo”, “avenging angel”, “Concerned citizen” or “underarm sweating,” says Groschupf. Unrestrained xenophobia and racist arguments spread about the demise of the Occident. “For me, it was not individuals, but a lot of this violent atmosphere in the network. The source from which such criminal deeds develop, such as the one we are experiencing now.”
The recent terrorist attack in front of the synagogue in the hall shows how close to reality such crime novels are based. “I also claim, this journalistic perspective, to bring in,” says Johannes Groschupf. To determine “how to tick these people? What is your Mindset? What are the sources of your hatred feeds itself.”
The shadow of everyday life
The Israeli writer Dror Mishani, who is currently in Germany on a reading tour, draws the material for his detective stories – unusual from the perspective of the perpetrator, written – from the everyday life of his home city of Tel Aviv. A socio-gram: the ordinary madness of a country that can be at any time of terrorist attacks and bomb attacks threatened.
Dror Mishani in the synagogue in Cologne, Germany
Martial military and police presence is part of the city’s image. “I write books about the fragility of our everyday lives,” says Mishani, whose novels are storming the bestseller lists. “We live our lives, without thinking that everything in a second can change. That is a good thing to live no other way. But this is something, which can lead literature in mind: that our life is with all the people around us that we love, can change from one second to the other.”
Dror Mishani lives and works in Israel, and taught as a Professor at the University of Tel Aviv, also crime fiction. This latent threat is in the Israeli everyday reality – for all people, at all times. In a school bus, a bomb explodes, a sniper shoots and kills a passerby, a car accident at the Checkpoint provokes a firefight. Stories of life in Israel every day, without that you can reach the news.
Environment studies instead of Commissioner stories
Mishani watched his surroundings carefully. He has an eye for the explosive nature of interpersonal encounters. “I’m not your typical mystery writer. Me people, interested in people on the street, even the Criminals and their living environment,” he says.
The templates for his characters of the novel are pure fiction, the result is at his Desk. “I’ve set the character traits of very different people together. I have no real role in mind,” he says in a DW Interview in the Cologne synagogue. “It’s more like a Thousand-piece Puzzle that I put to my respective protagonists together. And a piece of the Puzzle I always am,” he laughs, “even with the female characters.”
Bus passengers in Israel – on the dangers that lurk in the Israeli daily, is sometimes of the substance of Mishanis novels
Big question: Is there global crime?
“Crime novels are often local stories,” says Dror Mishani, who grew up with the classic Sherlock Holmes stories. In Israel there is no such Tradition in crime literature such as in England or Germany. “If you take the novels of Henning Mankell and his inspector Kurt Wallander, as you read about this small town of Ystad in southern Sweden, in the you were never. And yet the universal effect: It could play anywhere. The crime could happen in their own backyard.”
For crime-expert Ingrid Müller-Münch, the political topicality of the recent crime literature, however, has its limits. After all, these books are fiction. “There are exciting stories in thrillers, which are very close to the current topics. I always tell myself: When I spend the whole day with the refugee crisis in the Newspapers or with the Brexit, I don’t know exactly, whether I would then read in the evening, still a crime, in the the is again the topic. So a crime, there must be more resourceful.”