Pierre Bellemare

Pierre Bellemare ( born October 21, 1929 in Boulogne- Billancourt ) is a French writer and presenter.

Amazing Stories

He became known among other things through the TV, radio and book series Amazing Stories ( in the original: Les dossiers extraordinaires ). In the stories, it's about true events that have taken place sometime and somewhere. It is usually the period 1850 to 1995 and it is reported of incredible stories that just " normal " people experienced either known personalities or.

The idea for this series came Bellemare mid-1970s, when he was sitting in front of a blank sheet of paper and not to come. This resulted in several thousand stories he first told French television, then on the radio before any part of it was published in book form and translated into German.

Among other things one hears of mysterious criminal cases, experiences related to historical events or other exceptional events. For this most exciting and sometimes a little humorous short stories to Belle Mare made ​​, together with a solid team of writers and documentalists, to search for " Incredible Stories ," for which she rummaged in police records and newspaper archives. Belle Mare she finally wrote in the 1980s and 1990s in book form. For Germany, these books were, among others, from the Nymphenburg Verlag, published by Gondrom Verlag, from Paul Zsolnay Verlag and by Weltbild Verlag.