Ostfriesland criminal author Klaus-Peter Wolf
The “love for landscape and humans” shapes
From the Ruhr area to East Frisia: On the TV premiere of “Ostfriesenhölle” Klaus-Peter Wolf explains how his adopted home shapes his crime novels.
On Good Friday (April 18), crime fans can look forward to a special television enjoyment: the film adaptation of Klaus -Peter Wolfs (71, “A murderous couple – the fall”) novel “Ostfriesenhölle” is broadcast on arts in German and French at 8:15 p.m. In an interview with Spot on News, the most -touched novelist, born in Gelsenkirchen, gives an insight into the special connection to his adopted home of Ostfriesland.
They have been living north in the East Frisian town for over 20 years. How did this region shape its letter – especially its East Frisian thrillers?
Klaus-Peter Wolf: My books breathe the East Frisian northwest wind. The landscape is like a protagonist of the plot. But people also influence my letter. There are really numerous literary figures of my books. They are called that, they talk like that. Of course, they are friends that I know well. For example, the confectioner Jörg Tapper and his wife Monika. Master bricklayer Peter Grendel and his wife Rita. Also the journalist Holger Bloem and many others … Why should I invent people for my novels when I am surrounded by such original figures?
Their stories are deeply rooted in East Frisia. Do you feel a special responsibility to present the region authentically and respectfully?
Wolf: Many knew East Frisia only from the East Frisian jokes. I show a completely different East Frisia. My books are shaped by the love of landscape and people. I myself come from Gelsenkirchen and like for many people from the Ruhr area, I was always a place of longing for me.
What makes East Frisia the ideal scene for crime novels for you?
Wolf: Many crime novels and films live on the anonymity of the big city. This is very different with me. Everyone knows everyone here. Or at least believe it … ebb and flood, the change of tides, shape not only the landscape, but also people. There is also a flood of tourists and then an emptiness. On some days I don’t get a shopping cart in the supermarket, and on others I go through the shelf rows as Lonesome Cowboy. I like this change. If I were a serial killer, I would hide in East Frisia, because everyone is welcomed in a friendly manner at such tourist resorts …
Which real places or people in your city north have been incorporated into your books – maybe even in the crime thriller “Ostfriesenhölle”?
Wolf: Of course, the Café Ten Cate is an important place of action and its owners play a role. And without the Hotels Reichshof, Smutje, Deichkrone or Regina Maris, it doesn’t work anyway.
How do your East Frisian neighbors react to the dark stories that play right on your doorstep?
Wolf: Many want to play along. If we are looking for extras for the films, hundreds report. Again and again people talk to me who tell me their stories, draw attention to events and tell me what they would like to read. Many offer me their front yard so that I can put a body in and apply islands that I commit literary crimes there, because of course they know that tourism is being boosted. Many people come from afar to visit the locations. The films run in 32 countries …
What does it mean to you personally that north has become a bit of crime crime culture through your books and the films?
Wolf: I am very proud of it. When I was sitting in Café Ten Cate and began to write the first novel, I was neither dreamed of nor imagining this success. It was created by whisper propaganda of the fans. In the meantime, the city of north even has a crime museum with 900 square meters of exhibition space.
Would you say that as a “moving” you have become a real East Frisian?
Wolf: I feel very comfortable there. In the meantime I became the patron for the “Hospice by the Sea” and the ambassador of the sea rescuers. I also experience this as recognition.
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Source: Stern
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