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Henning Mankell will remain with Wallander remembered. And also the “Tatort” owes the Swede exciting episodes.
Wallander series
When you think of Henning Mankell, the immediate incident Another Name: Kurt Wallander. The Commissioner is the most prominent figure of the Swedish crime author. In ten books Mankell let his officers determine from the southern Swedish Ystad. Almost all episodes of the series were filmed, in part, on several occasions. Wallander cases are always tough and brutal, but often inspired by reality: The first and also the last novel of the series Mankell served real criminal cases as a template. In “Faceless Killers” (1991) an old married couple is brutally murdered on a farm. Before the woman died in the hospital, she whispers Wallander still: “alien, alien.” In “The enemy in the shadow” from the year 2009, the Commissioner has to do with a series of arson attacks.
Sweden mourns Henning Mankell “He was a great person”
With its Wallander thrillers Henning Mankell became famous. Now, the Swedish author who died at the age of 67 years – and made his home deep.
Even otherwise Mankell took by preference subjects before, not only hurt the domestic readers: immigration and xenophobia (“Faceless Killers”), police corruption (“Dogs of Riga “1992), domestic violence against women (” The Fifth Woman “, 1996), the dangers of digitization (” the firewall “, 1997) or religious fanaticism (” Before the Frost “, 2002). Many Wallander books are bleak until depressing, rarely indulged Mankell his characters have a happy ending. Above all, Wallander was itself plagued arg: divorce, depression, alcoholism, several failed love affairs – and at the very end Alzheimer. Yes, Hennig Mankell was not for nothing as one of the most popular representatives of the darkness of the Scandinavian crime fiction.
Chronicler of the Winds (1995)
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The “Chronicler of the Winds” is an African baker, the of the street children in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, told. Especially from eleven Nelio, he has shot found on the stage of a theater and maintains on the roof to his death. For nine days, told Nelio the baker his story, always in the knowledge that he will die once the story is over. With this touching novel shows Mankell that he not only mastered the thriller genre, but it also knows how to pack policy concerns in the finest prose.
The Return of the Dancing Master (2000)
Mankell remains in “The Return of the Dancing Master” faithful – even though the protagonist is not Kurt Wallander, but Stefan Lindman’s. The is also a policeman in southern Sweden and has also its problems. At the very beginning of the book he is diagnosed with cancer. Lindman can really deal with his illness but did not, because in the newspaper, he discovered the message about the bestial murder of his former colleague Herbert Molin: The 80-year-old was whipped to death. So traveling the investigator who is actually on sick leave, to northern Sweden and takes on the investigation. A motive seems quickly found:. Herbert Molin was not just as a young man in the Waffen-SS – but until recently still a convinced Nazi
For his portrayal of Stefan Lindman in the film adaptation of Mankell’s novel Tobias received Moretti 2004 German Television Award.
Kennedys Brain (2005)
“Kennedy’s brain” is one of the works in which Mankell is concerned with his adopted hometown of Africa. The archaeologist Louise Cantor attempted to elucidate the alleged suicide of her son Hendrik. Hendrik worked as a journalist and was apparently at a great history to it. The tracks lead only to South Africa, then to Mozambique and to a clinic, be treated in the AIDS patients. But behind the primary care stuck greed, power and corruption -. And Mankell woven into the detective story a good portion of social criticism
The novel 2010 was filmed with Iris Berben in the leading role
The. Chinese (2008)
The title says it all: In a small Swedish village of 18 people are being slaughtered, including the adoptive parents of Judge Birgitta Roslin. The lawyer distrusts the police investigation and puts himself in search of clues that leads them soon after China. “The Chinese” is not only crime, but also political thriller – a genre change, which did not convince the critics. So Martin Bauer wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: “In order to avert the apocalypse and to defy the selfishness of individuals, advocates Henning Mankell otherglobalist Manifesto for a pact with the coldest monster of modernity, the state ‘The Chinese’ is a weird book..”
quicksand – what it means to be a man (2015)
“quicksand – what it means to be a human being” Henning Mankell has written his most personal work. The book was almost done, as in the past year came the diagnosis: cancer. Mankell wrote it then again by now also talked about his fear and living with the disease. His cancer themed Mankell in his column for the newspaper Göteborgs Posten .
In “quicksand” he engaged in individual texts with death and impermanence and holding talks with the dead, how he known in an interview published in the World. Mankell transferred the questions about the meaning of life then on the big picture. How do we deal with all of the earth to what will pass – and what’s left? In atypical manner Mankell has written therein a kind of obituary for herself.
crime scenes with Borowski
For two crime scenes with the Characters from Kiel delivered Mankell the idea: In “Borowski and the fourth man” (2010), it has to do with the investigators severed body parts and a mysterious hunting party. In “Borowski and cool dog” (2011), the Commissioner must work together with a colleague from Sweden, to solve his case: When you jump into a lake man of bamboo poles is impaled. The bizarre killing species bear the unmistakeable signature of Sweden – and more Mankell plots should follow. The NDR announced, there were sketches of the author of two other Borowski- crime scenes . It is quite possible, therefore, that Henning Mankell is maintained all mystery fans even after his death. In TV.
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The Swedish writer Henning Mankell has died at the age of 67 years. He became famous mainly with his thrillers about the grumpy Kurt Wallander. In addition, he was active against poverty and illiteracy in Africa.
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