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Dr Jürgen Ehlers
Jürgen Ehlers has worked as an ice-age geologist. He has published numerous scientific articles and several textbooks including such titles as ‘The Morphodynamics of the Wadden Sea’ and ‘Quaternary Geology’.
In 1992 Jürgen Ehlers published his first crime story ‘Flucht’ (Escape). Since then numerous other short stories have come out in anthologies and journals. For his story ‘Weltspartag in Hamminkeln’ (World Savings Day in Hamminkeln) Jürgen Ehlers was awarded the prestigious Friedrich Glauser Prize. More recently he specialised in writing historical crime novels, the latest of which, a series of three volumes (‘Tod von oben’, ‘Im dunklen Nebel’, Durch die kalte Nacht’), is set in The Netherlands in 1941-45. In 2021 ‘Bullenhuser Damm School – Place of Execution’ appeared, a graphic novel about the murder of 20 Jewish children in Hamburg.
Jürgen Ehlers is a member of the ‘Syndikat’ and the ‘Crime Writers’ Association’. He lives with his family in Witzeeze, near Hamburg.
Other Awards
Friedrich Glauser Prize
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Books by Dr Jürgen Ehlers


Tod von oben

Nur ein gewöhnlicher Mord

Blutrot blüht die Heide

Mitgegangen

Die Nacht von Barmbeck

Neben dem Gleis

In deinem schönen Leibe

Der Spion von Dunvegan Castle

Der Wolf von Hamburg

Die Hyäne von Hamburg

Abflug oder Tod

Tod auf der Osterinsel

Im dunklen Nebel

Durch die kalte Nacht

Im Haus der Lügen

Ratten am Bullenhuser Damm

Bullenhuser Damm School – Place of Execution

Fantom

Sturm in die Freiheit

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