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Come, Sweet Death
Another dose of hilarity and mayhem from the author Carl Hiaasen calls “the real deal” In this winner of the German Thriller Prize, ex-cop Simon Brenner, as part of his never-ending quest to get as far away from being a cop as he can, takes a job as an ambulance driver in downtown Vienna. It’s a hair-raising job, though, made more so by the tendency of the other EMTs to place bets on how many red lights they can run. Even worse, Brenner’s new employer has a problem: its major competitor is somehow listening in on radio communications and beating his unit to every pickup. Knowing his past on the force, Brenner’s boss asks him to act like a cop and investigate. Meanwhile, is it Brenner’s paranoia or are certain wealthy elderly patients who are essentially healthy dying more quickly than they should? It isn’t long before Brenner’s life is in real danger, and once again it will take a certain amount of booze, pills, and bad behavior for our man to survive being a cop one more time.
The Bone Man
The wry and rueful Columbo of Austria investigates a grisly murder at a beloved restaurant where snooty Viennese gourmands go to eat … fried chicken. At a wildly popular chicken shack in the Austrian countryside, a gruesome discovery is made in the pile of chicken bones waiting to be fed into the basement grinder: human bones. But when former-police detective now private eye Simon Brenner shows up to investigate, the woman who hired him has disappeared … Brenner likes chicken, though, so he stays, but finds no one will talk. And as he waits for the disappeared manager, there’s one ghastly find after another. Perhaps the most raucous book in the series, The Bone Man manages to make fun of institutions from high cuisine to soccer while nonetheless building relentless suspense based in all-too-real social issues. Smart, tense, and funny, the book makes clear why Carl Hiaasen called Wolf Haas “the real deal.”
Resurrection
“Wolf Haas is the real deal, and his arrival on the American book scene is long overdue.” —Carl Hiaasen THE FIRST INSPECTOR BRENNER NOVEL The darkly comic book that launched the bestselling series . . . Wolf Haas is firmly established as one of the world’s bestselling crime novelists. And now the novel that introduced Simon Brenner, Haas’s inimitable protagonist—a detective who always gets where he’s going, but never the way anyone else would—is available for the first time in English. When the corpses of two Americans turn up on a ski lift in the idyllic Swiss town of Zell, former police inspector Brenner, who needs a new job, not to mention more migraine medication, agrees to investigate the deaths for an insurance company. But as Brenner gets acquainted with the finer points of curling, community theater, and certain sexy local schoolteachers, he notices one thing starkly missing: any semblance of a clue. Until he stumbles across a buried secret that might have explosive consequences.
Brenner and God
Wolf Haas' Detective Brenner series has become wildly popular around the world for a reason: they're timely, edgy stories told in a wry, quirky voice that's often hilarious and with a protagonist it's hard not to love. In this episode, Brenner - forced out of the police force tries to get away from detective work by taking a job as a personal chauffeur for two-year-old Helena. One day, Helena gets snatched from the car. Abruptly out of a job, Brenner decides to investigate her disappearance on his own, just because that's what he does.
Tatort Germany
New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical background. Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by which time Germany had gone on to produce antidetective novels that were similarly ahead of their time. German crime fiction has thus always been a curious case; rather t...
Wolf Haas und sein kriminalliterarisches Sprachexperiment
Revised thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Salzburg, 2008.
Wolf Haas und der Kriminalroman: Unterhaltung zwischen traditionellen Genrestrukturen und Innovation
Verzwickte Fälle, ein eigenwilliger Detektiv und Lokalkolorit - die Kriminalromane von Wolf Haas bieten beste Unterhaltung. Dies liegt vor allem an Brenner, Haas’ Ermittler, der jeden noch so schwierigen Fall auf seine ganz eigene Art löst. Aber was für ein Detektiv ist eigentlich dieser Brenner? Ein klassischer Ermittler à la Sherlock Holmes oder doch eher ein Mann der ‘harten’ Schule? Inwieweit folgen die Romane traditionellen Genrestrukturen und was ist eindeutig innovativ? Das Anliegen dieser Studie soll es sein, das Werk des österreichischen Schriftstellers Wolf Haas hinsichtlich bestimmter Elemente zu analysieren und auf diese Weise in den Kontext der Kriminal- bzw. der Detektivromane einzuordnen. Hierfür wird das Augenmerk sowohl auf die Detektiv- als auch die Erzählerfigur, die Romanwelt, die Struktur und signifikante Elemente gelegt. Als Vergleichsgerüst dienen die Komponenten des klassischen sowie des hard-boiled-Detektivromans. Die Auswertung der Analyse ermöglicht darzulegen, ob, bei welchen Aspekten und aus welchen Gründen bei den Romanen von Wolf Haas innerhalb des Kriminalgenres einerseits von Tradition, andererseits von Innovation die Rede sein kann.
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago
"The prosaic romantic hero, Vittorio Kowalski possesses a strange talent: he can remember the weather for every day of the past fifteen years in a certain village in the Austrian Alps. When he is invited to display this uncanny ability on a TV game show, he uncovers memories of his unrequited love for an Austrian girl named Anni, the accident that led to her father's death, and his own near-fatal experience at the place of their secret childhood meetings. As the interview progresses, intricacies of the children's parents' stories unfold to reveal a startling erotic entanglement. On the very last day of the fictional transcription, we learn almost everything else."--Jacket.
Hauptdarsteller Hilfsausdruck: Wolf Haas' Brenner-Romane - Wenn der Erzähler seinen Figuren die Show stiehlt
Dieser Beitrag beschaftigt sich umfassend mit der Erzahltechnik der Brenner"-Romane von Wolf Haas. Diese werden mit dem Instrumentarium einer auf Gerard Genette basierenden Systematik erzahltheoretisch analysiert. Auffallend ist dabei der omni- und uberprasente Erzahler im Zentrum der Erzahlung, der sich und sein Erzahlen oft der Handlung uberordnet. Erst nur beobachtend, greift er spater ins Geschehen ein, stirbt und steht wieder auf, womit die klare Unterscheidbarkeit zwischen homo-, hetero- und autodiegetischem Erzahlen verneint und die fur einen Erzahltext zwingende Trennung zwischen histoire und discours uberwunden wird. Die Ubiquitat des Erzahlers und seine Allwissenheit sind unublich ...
