Jan Zweyer

January Zweyer, actually Rüdiger Richartz, ( born December 12, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer.

Career

First, he studied architecture in Bochum and Dortmund, and then took another degree in Social Sciences at the Ruhr- University Bochum and worked as a research assistant at the university. Between these two studies, he worked when he was a freelance journalist for the WAZ. Now he is only a freelance writer. Zweyer writes crime fiction, both short stories and novels set in the Ruhr area and is very popular in North Rhine -Westphalia, due to their realistic descriptions.

Works

Novels

Short stories

• 2002 We are the only
• 2002 The skeleton of Königsborn
• 2004 With Walther in Aldekerk
• 2004 Margarethe
• 2006 Goleo, pill, Pils and Schalke
• 2006 The little ones
• 2008 Long Weekend
• 2008 Zappels plan
• 2009 Knapp past is also next to
• 2009 Sale
• 2010 Hunter

Private life

Zweyer lives in Herne, in the Ruhr area with his wife and a dog.