Deutscher Krimi Preis

The German Thriller Prize is the oldest and most prestigious German literary prize for crime fiction.

He has been awarded since 1985 by the Bochum Crime Archives. Unlike the Friedrich Glauser Prize, which is awarded by the authors' group The Syndicate, the judges are literary scholars, critics and booksellers. By his own definition, they appreciate the undoped Price writers ' literary skill and original content give the genre a new impetus. " Awarded with the numbers 1 to 3 are the best new releases of a year of German crime writers. In a second category, there are also three prices for newly released on German works by international authors.

In 2003, the award was presented publicly as part of the Crime Festival Munich for the first time, 2004, a public ceremony on the occasion of the festival " Murder on the Hellweg " in Unna instead. In the following years there was a return to the initial procedure, not to give the public the price.

Award winners

The most successful crime writers in the category National are the Swiss Peter Zeindler, could the German Thriller Prize 1986-1992 win four times (always # 1 ) and the German Friedrich Ani, which was five times 2002-2013 awarded a prize (one place 1, four times 2nd place). In the category International four times in 1995 deceased Americans Ross Thomas won between 1986 and 1996 the German Thriller Prize (always # 1 ).