Veit Heinichen

Veit Heinichen (born Villingen-Schwenningen, 1957) is a German novelist.[1][2]

Heinichen studied economics at Stuttgart University, and then worked in publishing. In 1994 together with Arnulf Conradi, chief reader at S. Fischer Verlag, and Conradi's wife Elisabeth Ruge, Heinichen was cofounder of Berlin Verlag.[3] He remained a director until 1999.[4]

Heinichen writes noir novels featuring Commissario Proteo Laurenti as main character. Like his protagonist, he currently lives in Trieste.

Works

Currently the novels of Veit Heinichen are available in 10 different languages. English is not yet one of them. Here is a list of the original works:

The first four novels plus Totentanz were filmed for the German ARD television series Commissario Laurenti (2006–2009).

References

  1. ↑ Steinwendtner, Brita (2004). "Manchmal sid die wahren Zuhause schon ausgestorben..." [Sometimes the true origins are already extinct...]. In Pasinato, Antonio. Heimatsuche: Regionale Identität im österreich-italienischen Alpenraum [Searching for Home: Regional Identity in the Austrian-Italian Alps] (in German). Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann. p. 133. ISBN 978-3-8260-2353-8. ...Näheres von Veit Heinichen über die Hintergründe seiner Triestiner Kriminalromane... [...details from Veit Heinichen about the background of his Trieste-based crime novels...]
  2. ↑ Sachau, Susanne; Schetar, Daniela (2013). Kroatische Küste, Dalmatien [Croatian coast, Dalmatia] (in German) (9th ed.). Ostfildern: MairDumont. p. 56. ISBN 978-3-8297-0122-8. Die Toten vom Karst/Der Tod wirft lange Schatten – Die Krimis von Veit Heinichen und deren TV-Verfilmungen spielen in Triest und Istrien. Sie spiegeln brisante Themen des Grenzgebiets – Menschenschmuggel, politische Vergangenheit... [... Heinichen's crime novels... and the TV series are set in Trieste and Istria. They address controversial issues of the border area – smuggling, political history...]
  3. ↑ Mayer, Susanne (13 January 2005). "Interview with Elisabeth Ruge". Zeit Online. p. 4. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Conradi, Arnulf (1998). "Glücks-fall" [Lucky break]. In Galli, Rita. Ausgerechnet Bücher: einunddreissig verlegerische Selbstporträts [Of All Things, Books: thirty one publishers' self-portraits]. Berlin: Links. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-86153-167-8. Im Jahre 1994 gründete ich mit meiner Frau, Elisabeth Ruge, und Veit Heinichen den Berlin Verlag, ... [In 1984 I founded Berlin Verlag with my wife... and Veit Heinichen, ...]


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