German Crime Fiction Prize 2021 for Merle Kröger and Johannes Groschupf
News26.12.2021
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We are proud to announce that 1st place of this year’s German Crime Fiction Prize has been awarded to Merle Kröger for her thriller The Experts and are delighted to see another Suhrkamp author in 2nd place: Johannes Groschupf with his thriller Berlin Heat.
Hailed »a milestone in the field of historical thrillers« by Welt am Sonntag, The Experts was also shortlisted for the Crime Cologne Award 2021 and appeared on the Deutschlandfunk Kultur Best Crime of the Month list for three successive months.
The jury states: »The way Merle Kröger combines the private with the political is remarkable. [...] In this family history, in this thriller, the repressed is revealed, things that are not spoken of to this day, in terms of the great continuities in politics. Decisions made in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany continue to affect the present. And in terms of continuities in research, in cultural institutions, in companies and in the question of where capital actually comes from. But there are also continuities within families. Political thrillers are meant to uncover the truth behind the truth, and Merle Kröger's The Experts reveals that there are many truths.« (Sonja Hartl, Zeilenkino)
Berlin Heat, a suspenseful and exciting top-notch thriller by the winner of the German Crime Fiction Prize 2019, also found its way onto the Deutschlandfunk Kultur Best Crime of the Month list and is a comédie humaine of present-day Berlin.
The jury of the German Crime Fiction Prize says about Berlin Heat: »Johannes Groschupf chases his ambiguous hero, who soon has half the city on his tail, from one mess to the next in a way that is as gripping as it is entertaining – and uses the opportunity this wild chase offers to create a shimmering metropolitan portrait of a special kind: in the tropical summer of 2021, Covid has been more or less overcome, national elections are just around the corner, and the urbanites are really letting loose after a year and a half of isolation. [...] Berlin Heat is a highly contemporary, edgy (political) thriller with wit and savvy that celebrates life with great relish. Even if that comes at a great price sometimes.« (Ulrich Noller, WDR)
The German Crime Fiction Prize is the oldest award for crime fiction in Germany. Since 1985, a jury of crime critics, literary scholars, and crime fiction booksellers distinguishes the best crime novels of the year. The German Crime Fiction Prize honours novels that »lend new impulses to the genre with original content and literary skill.«
For more information please visit the authors’ Foreign Rights Websites or contact the respective Rights Manager.
Hailed »a milestone in the field of historical thrillers« by Welt am Sonntag, The Experts was also shortlisted for the Crime Cologne Award 2021 and appeared on the Deutschlandfunk Kultur Best Crime of the Month list for three successive months.
The jury states: »The way Merle Kröger combines the private with the political is remarkable. [...] In this family history, in this thriller, the repressed is revealed, things that are not spoken of to this day, in terms of the great continuities in politics. Decisions made in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany continue to affect the present. And in terms of continuities in research, in cultural institutions, in companies and in the question of where capital actually comes from. But there are also continuities within families. Political thrillers are meant to uncover the truth behind the truth, and Merle Kröger's The Experts reveals that there are many truths.« (Sonja Hartl, Zeilenkino)
Berlin Heat, a suspenseful and exciting top-notch thriller by the winner of the German Crime Fiction Prize 2019, also found its way onto the Deutschlandfunk Kultur Best Crime of the Month list and is a comédie humaine of present-day Berlin.
The jury of the German Crime Fiction Prize says about Berlin Heat: »Johannes Groschupf chases his ambiguous hero, who soon has half the city on his tail, from one mess to the next in a way that is as gripping as it is entertaining – and uses the opportunity this wild chase offers to create a shimmering metropolitan portrait of a special kind: in the tropical summer of 2021, Covid has been more or less overcome, national elections are just around the corner, and the urbanites are really letting loose after a year and a half of isolation. [...] Berlin Heat is a highly contemporary, edgy (political) thriller with wit and savvy that celebrates life with great relish. Even if that comes at a great price sometimes.« (Ulrich Noller, WDR)
The German Crime Fiction Prize is the oldest award for crime fiction in Germany. Since 1985, a jury of crime critics, literary scholars, and crime fiction booksellers distinguishes the best crime novels of the year. The German Crime Fiction Prize honours novels that »lend new impulses to the genre with original content and literary skill.«
For more information please visit the authors’ Foreign Rights Websites or contact the respective Rights Manager.