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Jakob arjouni
Primary works
- Happy birthday, Turkish!
- Magic Hoffman
- The garages (play)
Jakob arjouni , pseudonym of Jakob Bothe , born Michelsen, born on in Frankfurt-sur-le-Main, and died on in Berlin [ first ] , is a German writer, author of detective novel.
Son of the playwright Hans Günter Michelsen, Arjouni grew up in Frankfurt. In 1985, after having passed his baccalaureate, he made several trips to the South of France and began studies of letters at the University of Montpellier [ 2 ] . In 1985, he moved to Berlin and adopted shortly after his wife’s surname to sign his publications [ first ] .
His first detective novel, Happy birthday, Turkish ( Happy Birthday, Turk! , 1985), published while he is only 20 years old [ 3 ] , is later adapted to the cinema by director Doris Dörrie. In 1988, he published his first play, The garages . From this moment, he devoted himself entirely to writing.
Arjouni receives the German thriller price (German thriller prize) in 1992 for his novel Turkish coffee ( A man a murder , 1991). Son roman Magic Hoffmann (1996) first appears as a soap opera in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .
He says he is influenced by the works of Sergio Leone, Victor Hugo, William Faulkner and Irmgard Keun.
Jakob Arjouni lived in Ginestas in Aude and Berlin where he died the , after a lightning pancreatic cancer [ 2 ] .
The work of Arjouni evokes the concerns of the contemporary urban world [ first ] . One of his recurring protagonists, the private detective Kemal Kayankaya, confronts the problems of racism and xenophobia in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Frankfurt. In Kismet , the author evokes the civil war in Yugoslavia. Neo-Nazis, anti-Semitism and revisionism in Germany are themes in Magic Hoffmann , School homework ( homework ) And Edelsmanns Daughter . His book At Max is the vision of a state and a company that live with the consequences of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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- Happy Birthday, Turk! (Diogenes, 1985) (ISBN 3-257-21544-4 )
Posted in French under the title Happy birthday, Turkish! , translated by Stefan Kaempfer, Paris, Fayard, 1992 (ISBN 2-213-02953-9 )
- More beer (Diogenes, 1987) (ISBN 3-257-21545-2 )
Posted in French under the title Half pressure: a Kayankaya investigation , translated by Stefan Kaempfer, Paris, Fayard, 1993 (ISBN 2-213-03079-0 )
- A man a murder (Diogenes, 1991) (ISBN 3-257-22563-6 )
Posted in French under the title Turkish coffee , translated by Stefan Kaempfer, Paris, Fayard, 1992 (ISBN 2-253-14416-9 ) ; reissue, Paris, LGF, coll. ” The pocket book ” n O 14416, 1998 (ISBN 2-253-14416-9 )
- Kismet (Diogenes, 2001) (ISBN 3-257-06263-X )
Posted in French under the title Turkish puzzle , translated by Bernard Kreiss, Paris, Fayard, 2003 (ISBN 2-213-61493-8 )
- Brother Kemal (Diogenes, 2012) (ISBN 978-3-257-06829-0 )
Other novels [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
- Edelmann’s daughter (1996) (ISBN 3-257-06091-2 )
- Magic Hoffmann (Diogenes, 1996) (ISBN 3-257-22951-8-8 )
Posted in French under the title Magic Hoffmann , translated by Stefan Kaempfer, Paris, Fayard, 1997 (ISBN 2-213-59899-1 )
- homework (Diogenes, 2004) (ISBN 3-257-06442-X )
Posted in French under the title School homework , translated by Marie-Claude Auger, Paris, Christian Bourgois editor, 2007 (ISBN 2-267-01939-6 )
- There are so few people in Germany who are serious with humor , Meranier-Gymnasium Lichtenfels (2006)
- At Max (Diogenes, 2006) (ISBN 3-257-06536-1 )
- The show must go on? (Diogenes, 2008) (ISBN 3-257-22032-4 )
- Saint Eddy (Diogenes, 2009) (ISBN 3-257-06685-6 )
- Cherryman Hunting Mr. White (Diogenes, 2011) (ISBN 978-3257067552 )
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- The garage (1988)
- Nazim pushes off (1990)
- Edelmann’s daughter: play (1996)
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