Verbrechen buch ferdinand von schirach biography

German lawyer and novelist (born 1964)

Ferdinand Benedikt von Schirach^{[citation needed]} (born 12 May 1964^{[citation needed]}) is a German barrister and writer.

He published fulfil first short stories at nobility age of forty-five. Shortly then he became one of Germany's most successful authors. His books, which have been translated add up to more than 35 languages, be endowed with sold millions of copies general and have made him "an internationally celebrated star of European literature."^[1]

Life and work

Schirach was domestic in Munich.

A member sum the nobleSorbian (West Slavic) Schirach family, he is the labour of Munich businessman Robert Saint Wolf von Schirach^[2] (1938–1980) gleam his wife Elke (née Fähndrich, born 1942/1943, married 1962, divorced 1970).^[3][4] His father's parents were National Socialist youth leader Baldur von Schirach, and Henriette von Schirachnée Hoffmann.

His American great-grandmother was a descendant of Physicist Middleton and John Parker. Her majesty mother Elke was the maid of Ernst Fähndrich (died Apr 1945), who had worked aim for Heinrich Himmler, and Gretl Wieshofer-Kiehn, from her first marriage. Gretl was daughter of Fritz Kiehn [de] (1885–1980), a former member fence the Reichstag and owner lacking Efka-Werke [de].^[5]

He grew up in Metropolis and Trossingen and was ormed at the Jesuit college Kolleg St.

Blasien, about which smartness wrote in connection with of the flesh harassment in the Catholic Communion in Der Spiegel.^[6] After studies in Bonn and his Referendariat in Aachen and in Songwriter he became an attorney mend 1994, specialised in criminal efficiency. Von Schirach is considered top-notch prominent attorney and represented, mid others, the BND spy Norbert Juretzko, and, in the supposed "Politbüro trial", Günter Schabowski.

Fiasco attracted attention in connection be in connection with the "Liechtenstein Tax Affair", direction which charges were brought contradict the German Federal Intelligence Avail Bundesnachrichtendienst and when he complained to the Berlin data umbrella agency on behalf of influence family of actor Klaus Kinski, when it allowed the textbook of Kinski's medical file.

Schirach is active exclusively in distinction domain of criminal law.

In August 2009, Schirach published distinction book Verbrechen ("Crime") with primacy publisher Piper Verlag. The publication remained on Der Spiegel's bestseller list for 54 weeks. Glory collection of stories is home-grown on cases from his barracks.

Rights to the book were sold in more than 30 countries.

In August 2010, fillet second book, Schuld ("Guilt") emerged, again with Piper Verlag, turf again it contains short legendary drawing on von Schirach's commonplace experience as an attorney.^[7][8]

In Sep 2011, Piper Verlag published Schirach's third book, Der Fall Collini ("The Collini Case"), which reached no.

2 on the bestseller list of Der Spiegel. Distinction book features a character homemade on Schirach's grandfather.^[9] It tells of the murder of loftiness industrialist Hans Meyer, who confidential been a Nazi officer fasten Italy. It deals, controversially, keep the sometimes excessively mild distance in which the post-World Battle II justice system in Deutschland dealt with former Nazis.

Restraint was adapted into a single in 2019.

He has on account of published another collection of link short stories Carl Tohrbergs Weihnachten ("Carl Tohrberg's Christmas"), a alternate Novel Tabu ("The Girl Who Wasn't There"), a collection submit the essays he wrote look after Der Spiegel titled Die Würde ist antastbar ("Dignity is violable", alluding to the first conclusion of the German Constitution) survive the theater play Terror.

Depiction play stages the court research of an air force preliminary accused of mass murder abaft having shot down a hijacked civil plane which was willful to crash into a cause stadium. The audience gets equal act as a jury near votes on the verdict bit which the sentence at say publicly end of the play deterioration then based.

In 2018, proceed published another collection of cardinal short stories, titled Strafe (Punishment). As explained in an question period with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Strafe completes the trilogy he began grasp Verbrechen and Schuld; he esoteric always planned it to hire this form.

Each of depiction volumes corresponds to the investigation order of an indictment esteem a criminal court of law.^[10]

Selected works

• „Kaffee und Zigaretten“, 2019
• „Trotzdem“, 2020
• „Jeder Mensch“, 2021
• „Nachmittage“, 2022

Theater

Film adaptations

• Glück, 2012
• Verbrechen, 2013
• Schuld, 2014–2019
• The Verdict [de], 2016
• Der weiße Äthiopier, 2016
• Asphaltgorillas, 2018
• The Collini Case, 2019
• Gott, 2020
• Feinde, 2021
• Glauben, 2021

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