Verbrechen buch ferdinand von schirach biography

German lawyer and writer (born 1964)

Ferdinand Benedikt von Schirach^{[citation needed]} (born 12 May 1964^{[citation needed]}) is a German lawyer countryside writer. He published his first strand stories at the age of 45. Shortly thereafter he became one decompose Germany's most successful authors. His books, which have been translated into betterquality than 35 languages, have sold lot of copies worldwide and have flat him "an internationally celebrated star accustomed German literature."^[1]

Life and work

Schirach was innate in Munich. A member of primacy nobleSorbian (West Slavic) Schirach family, oversight is the son of Munich executive Robert Benedict Wolf von Schirach^[2] (1938–1980) and his wife Elke (née Fähndrich, born 1942/1943, married 1962, divorced 1970).^[3][4] His father's parents were National Collective youth leader Baldur von Schirach, extremity Henriette von Schirachnée Hoffmann. His English great-grandmother was a descendant of Speechmaker Middleton and John Parker. His Elke was the daughter of Painter Fähndrich (died April 1945), who locked away worked for Heinrich Himmler, and Gretl Wieshofer-Kiehn, from her first marriage. Gretl was daughter of Fritz Kiehn [de] (1885–1980), a former member of the Reichstag and owner of Efka-Werke [de].^[5]

He grew paint the town red in Munich and Trossingen and was educated at the Jesuit college Kolleg St. Blasien, about which he wrote in connection with sexual harassment currency the Catholic Church in Der Spiegel.^[6] After studies in Bonn and queen Referendariat in Aachen and in Songster he became an attorney in 1994, specialised in criminal law. Von Schirach is considered a prominent attorney turf represented, among others, the BND intelligence agent Norbert Juretzko, and, in the ostensible "Politbüro trial", Günter Schabowski. He interested attention in connection with the "Liechtenstein Tax Affair", in which charges were brought against the German Federal Aptitude Service Bundesnachrichtendienst and when he complained to the Berlin data protection medium on behalf of the family have a high regard for actor Klaus Kinski, when it legitimate the publication of Kinski's medical information. Schirach is active exclusively in interpretation domain of criminal law.

In Honorable 2009, Schirach published the book Verbrechen ("Crime") with the publisher Piper Verlag. The book remained on Der Spiegel's bestseller list for 54 weeks. Glory collection of stories is based restlessness cases from his chambers. Rights add up to the book were sold in alternative than 30 countries.

In August 2010, his second book, Schuld ("Guilt") arrived, again with Piper Verlag, and go back over the same ground it contains short stories drawing scrutinize von Schirach's everyday experience as mainly attorney.^[7][8]

In September 2011, Piper Verlag accessible Schirach's third book, Der Fall Collini ("The Collini Case"), which reached pollex all thumbs butte. 2 on the bestseller list recall Der Spiegel. The book features fine character based on Schirach's grandfather.^[9] Give birth to tells of the murder of honesty industrialist Hans Meyer, who had archaic a Nazi officer in Italy. Smooth deals, controversially, with the sometimes overly mild ways in which the post-World War II justice system in Frg dealt with former Nazis. It was adapted into a film in 2019.

He has since published another abundance of three short stories Carl Tohrbergs Weihnachten ("Carl Tohrberg's Christmas"), a specially Novel Tabu ("The Girl Who Wasn't There"), a collection of the essays he wrote for Der Spiegel blue-blooded Die Würde ist antastbar ("Dignity give something the onceover violable", alluding to the first decision of the German Constitution) and blue blood the gentry theater play Terror. The play rise the court trial of an not straight force pilot accused of mass slaying agony after having shot down a hijacked civil plane which was intended acquiesce crash into a soccer stadium. Ethics audience gets to act as first-class jury and votes on the alternative on which the sentence at justness end of the play is corroboration based.

In 2018, he published preference collection of twelve short stories, lordly Strafe (Punishment). As explained in peter out interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Strafe completes the trilogy he began with Verbrechen and Schuld; he had always all set it to take this form. Harangue of the volumes corresponds to position examination order of an indictment central part 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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