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Wolf Haas (born 14 December 1960) is an
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writer. He is most widely known for his
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novels featuring detective Simon Brenner, four of which were made into films. He has won several prizes for his works, including the German prize for crime fiction (''Deutscher Krimipreis'').


Life

Wolf Haas was born in 1960 in
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am Steinernen Meer, which is part of the Austrian state of
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. Retrieved 3 August 2011. After university he worked as an advertising
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. Between 1996 and 2003 he wrote seven detective stories, of which six featured detective Simon Brenner. Four were made into films: '' Komm, süßer Tod'' (Come Sweet Death), '' Silentium'', '' Der Knochenmann'' (The Boneman) and '' Das ewige Leben'' (Life Eternal). He has won several prizes for his works, including placed in the German prize for crime fiction (''
Deutscher Krimi Preis The Deutscher Krimi Preis (today's German spelling: Deutscher Krimipreis), or the ''German Crime Fiction Award'', is the oldest and most prestigious German literary prize for crime fiction. It has been awarded since 1985 by the Bochum Crime Archive ...
'') three times (1997, 1999, 2000), including one first place, and the
Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen The Bremen Literature Prize (, literally: Literature Prize of the city of Bremen) is a German literary award. The prize money is €25,000 (Förderpreis: €6,000). Recipients *1954 Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien for ''Tanzgeschichten. Ein Reigen aus ...
2013.


Works


Detective novels

* Simon Brenner detective stories (and where they are set): ** ''Auferstehung der Toten'' (Zell am See), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, (Translated by Annie Janusch as ''Resurrection'', Melville House, 2014, ) ** ''Der Knochenmann'' (Klöch in Styria), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997, (Translated by Annie Janusch as ''The Bone Man'', Melville House, 2013, ) ** '' Komm, süßer Tod'' (Vienna), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, (Translated by Annie Janusch as ''Come, Sweet Death!'', Melville House, 2014, ) ** ''Silentium!'' (Salzburg), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ** ''Wie die Tiere'' (Vienna), Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ** ''Das ewige Leben'' (Graz), Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2003, ** ''Der Brenner und der liebe Gott'', Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2009, (Translated by Annie Janusch as ''Brenner and God'', Melville House, 2012, ) ** ''Brennerova'', Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2014, ** ''Müll'', Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2022,


Other novels

* ''Ausgebremst – Der Roman zur Formel 1'', Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, * ''Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren'', 2006, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2006, , translated by Stephanie Gilardi and Thomas S. Hansen as ''The Weather Fifteen Years Ago'', Ariadne Press, Riverside California 2009, * ''Verteidigung der Missionarsstellung''. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2012, * ''Junger Mann''. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2018, * ''Eigentum''. Hanser, München 2023,


Non-fiction

* ''Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen der Konkreten Poesie''. Akademischer Verlag Heinz, Stuttgart 1990 * ''Die Liebe in den Zeiten des Cola-Rauschs'', Verlag Tauschzentrale, Wien 1993,


Children's books

* ''Die Gans im Gegenteil''. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2010


See also

*
List of Austrian writers This is a list of Austrian writers, including poets. __NOTOC__ A * Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), writer *Peter Altenberg (1859–1910), writer and poet *Jean Améry (1912–1978), writer * Ernst Angel (1894–1986), writer, poet and psychologis ...
*
List of Austrians This is a list of notable Austrians. Actors/actresses * Helmut Berger (1944–2023), actor * Senta Berger (born 1941), actress * Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943–2025), actor * Wolfgang Cerny (born 1984), actor * Marie Geistinger (1836–1903), ...


References


Further reading

* Helga Schreckenberger,
Wolf Haas's Brenner Novels – Austrian Adaptations and Transformations of the American Detective Story
, in Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, Number 17, Februar 2010.


External links



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