Veit Heinichen (born 1957, in
Villingen-Schwenningen
Villingen-Schwenningen (; Low Alemannic: ''Villinge-Schwenninge'') is a city in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in southern Baden-Württemberg, in south-western Germany. It had 89,743 inhabitants as of September 2024.
History
In the Middle Ages, ...
) is a
German
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novelist.
Heinichen studied economics at
Stuttgart University
The University of Stuttgart () is a research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany with programs in Civil engineering, civil ...
, and then worked in publishing. In 1994 together with Arnulf Conradi, chief editor at
S. Fischer Verlag
S. Fischer Verlag is a major German publishing house, which has operated as a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group since 1962. The publishing house was founded in 1881 by Samuel Fischer in Berlin, but is currently based in Frankfurt am Mai ...
, and Conradi's wife Elisabeth Ruge, Heinichen was cofounder of .
He remained a director until 1999.
Heinichen writes
noir novels featuring Commissario Proteo Laurenti as main character. Like his protagonist, he currently lives in
Trieste
Trieste ( , ; ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital and largest city of the Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the Province of 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:
* ''Gib jedem seinen eigenen Tod''. Zsolnay, Wien 2001
* ''Die Toten vom Karst''. Zsolnay, Wien 2002
* ''Tod auf der Warteliste''. Zsolnay, Wien 2003
* ''Der Tod wirft lange Schatten''. Zsolnay, Wien 2005
* ''Triest, Stadt der Winde''. Sanssouci, München 2005
* ''Totentanz''. Zsolnay, Wien 2007
* ''Die Ruhe des Stärkeren''. Zsolnay, Wien 2009
* ''Keine Frage des Geschmacks''. Zsolnay, Wien 2011
* ''Im eigenen Schatten''. Zsolnay, Wien 2013
The first four novels plus ''Totentanz'' were filmed for the German
ARD television series ''
Commissario Laurenti
''Commissario Laurenti'' is a German television series, with five episodes broadcast 2006–2009, based on the crime novels by Veit Heinichen. It was filmed on location in Trieste, Italy.
The episodes are:
* ''Gib jedem seinen eigenen Tod'' (200 ...
'' (2006–2009).
In 2014 he acted with the part of a writer in the film-comedy ''
Sexy Shop''.
References
External links
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German crime fiction writers
German publishers (people)
People from Villingen-Schwenningen
1957 births
Living people
German male novelists
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