Johannes Groschupf
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Johannes Groschupf
Johannes Groschupf, born in 1963, worked as an independent travel journalist for many years. In 1994, he survived a helicopter crash in the Sahara. Based on this experience, 1998 saw the creation of the award-winning radio feature Der Absturz (»The Crash«). After that, he focused on literary works, first and foremost in the field of YA literature, before turning to suspense writing. He was awarded the German Crime Fiction Prize for all three of his thrillers Berlin Preppers, Berlin Heat and Hyaenas.
Johannes Groschupf, born in 1963, worked as an independent travel journalist for many years. In 1994, he survived a helicopter crash in the Sahara. Based on this experience, 1998 saw the creation of the award-winning radio feature Der Absturz (»The Crash«). After that, he focused on literary works, first and foremost in the field of YA literature, before turning to suspense writing. He was awarded the German Crime Fiction Prize for all three of his thrillers Berlin Preppers, Berlin Heat and Hyaenas.
Awards (selection)
German Crime Fiction Prize 2022 for Hyaenas
German Crime Fiction Prize 2021 for Berlin Heat
German Crime Fiction Prize 2019 for Berlin Preppers
German Crime Fiction Prize 2021 for Berlin Heat
German Crime Fiction Prize 2019 for Berlin Preppers
German Crime Fiction Prize 2022 for Hyaenas
German Crime Fiction Prize 2021 for Berlin Heat
German Crime Fiction Prize 2019 for Berlin Preppers
German Crime Fiction Prize 2021 for Berlin Heat
German Crime Fiction Prize 2019 for Berlin Preppers
Praise
»[Groschupf's novels] are proof for why crime fiction is the most contemporary and hottest of all genres.« Elmar Krekeler, Die Welt
»[Groschupf's novels] are proof for why crime fiction is the most contemporary and hottest of all genres.« Elmar Krekeler, Die Welt
PUBLICATIONS
Latest first
Year of Publication: 2025
Johannes GroschupfYear of Publication: 2025
Skin City
For detective Romina Winter, her transfer to a post in the leafy suburbs of Berlin was supposed to take some of the stress out of her life. But a gang of Georgian thieves have started hitting the stately villas of her precinct on a daily basis. The residents are terrified. And then Romina’s little sister disappears. Suddenly she’s at the centre of her own investigations.
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Year of Publication: 2022
Johannes GroschupfYear of Publication: 2022
Hyaenas
In the past few months, more and more luxury cars are set ablaze once night falls over the capital. Drivers in Berlin feel left alone and set out on communal »citizen patrols« in their neighbourhoods, while the police suspect left-wing scum. The young police officer Romina Winter has just been transferred to the arson squad as a disciplinary measure and is patrolling the city at night. Also...
Year of Publication: 2021
Johannes GroschupfYear of Publication: 2021
Berlin Heat
Berlin is boiling hot in the first summer after the pandemic. The tourists are back in Party City, there are excessive parties everywhere, people are enjoying the time after the lockdown. Good business for Tom Lohoff, the facilitator, who has apartments, all kinds of drugs, sex and access to top clubs on offer for the party crowd from all over the world. And he has large gambling debts with a...
Year of Publication: 2019
Johannes GroschupfYear of Publication: 2019
Berlin Preppers
As an online-editor for a large daily newspaper, Walter Noack is in charge of eliminating rude remarks and hate speech from various comment sections. He is confronted with the most odious insults a thousand times a day. His nerves become even more frayed after he and subsequently a colleague are beaten seemingly at random by strangers, and his private life is shaken by loss.
The police...DISCOVER
Optioned
New Film Project Based on Berlin Heat by Johannes Groschupf
The politically explosive thriller by Berlin-based author Johannes Groschupf is set to be turned into a feature film.News
Johannes Groschupf and Sybille Ruge awarded German Crime Fiction Prize 2022
Hyaenas and Davenport 160 x 90 receive first and third place respectively in the category »National Crime Literature«.Film rights