Jörg Fauser was the enfant terrible of the German literary scene. Born in the Taunus town of Bad Schwalbach in 1944, he worked a number of different jobs (temporary worker, airport worker, night guard, journalist, author and rock songwriter). The night after his forty-third birthday, he died tragically and under mysterious circumstances when walking on the A94 highway between Feldkirchen and Riehm near Munich, where he was hit by a truck. It was only after his death that he became an iconic figure. In 1988, Das Syndikat, a group of German crime writers, awarded him the prestigious Ehrenglauser prize for crime fiction, named after the Swiss author Friedrich Glauser.
Jörg Fauser
Moraldo, Sandro
2019
Abstract
Jörg Fauser was the enfant terrible of the German literary scene. Born in the Taunus town of Bad Schwalbach in 1944, he worked a number of different jobs (temporary worker, airport worker, night guard, journalist, author and rock songwriter). The night after his forty-third birthday, he died tragically and under mysterious circumstances when walking on the A94 highway between Feldkirchen and Riehm near Munich, where he was hit by a truck. It was only after his death that he became an iconic figure. In 1988, Das Syndikat, a group of German crime writers, awarded him the prestigious Ehrenglauser prize for crime fiction, named after the Swiss author Friedrich Glauser.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.