Jürgen Thorwald

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Jürgen Thorwald (born as Heinz Bongartz October 28, 1915 – April 4, 2006) was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II.

Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, and attended the University of Cologne. He started his career in 1933 in Nazi Germany, writing for publications such as Die Braune Post ("The Brown Mail"), the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps") and the NSDAP paper National-Zeitung. During the war he worked as a propaganda writer focusing on the Luftwaffe and the general German war effort.

After the war he used the pseudonym Jürgen Thorwald in order to be able to work under allied occupation. In 1947, he legally adopted the new name.^[1]

Thorwalds book The Century of the Detective was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1966 in Best Fact Crime category, but he lost to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. In 1984 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Thorwald died in Lugano.

Bibliography

Luftmacht Deutschland. Luftwaffe, Industrie, Luftfahrt, 1939 (preface by Hermann Göring)
Es begann an der Weichsel, 1948
Das Ende an der Elbe, 1950
Die ungeklärten Fälle, 1950
Wen sie verderben wollen..., 1952
Der Fall Pastorius, 1953
Blut der Könige. Das Drama der Bluterkrankheit in den europäischen Fürstenhäusern, 1954
Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen, 1956 (The Century of the Surgeon)
Das Weltreich der Chirurgen, 1958 (The Triumph of Surgery)
Die Entlassung. Das Ende des Chirurgen Ferdinand Sauerbruch, 1960 (The dismissal: The Last Days of Ferdinand Sauerbruch)
Macht und Geheimnis der frühen Ärzte, 1962
Das Jahrhundert der Detektive, 1964 (Century of the Detective: Volume 1 in English "The Marks of Cain" (1965), Volume 2 "Dead Men Tell Tales" (1966, ISBN 0-330-02131-1))
Die Stunde der Detektive. Werden und Welten der Kriminalistik, 1966
Macht und Geheimnis der frühen Ärzte, 1967
Die Traum-Oase, 1968
Die Patienten, 1971 (The Patients)
Die Illusion. Rotarmisten in Hitlers Heeren, 1974 (The Illusion: Soviet Soldiers in Hitler's Armies)
Das Gewürz. Die Saga der Juden in Amerika, 1978
Im zerbrechlichen Haus der Seele. Ein Jahrhundert der Gehirnchirurgen, der Gehirnforscher, der Seelensucher, 1986
Die Monteverdi-Mission Droemer Knaur, München 1989, Neufassung: Juli 1998
Der geplagte Mann. Die Prostata - Geschichte und Geschichten, 1994

References

↑ Wilkes, Roger (2000). The Mammoth Book of Murder and Science. New York: Carroll & Graf. p. 222. ISBN 0-7867-0789-5.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 46856362 LCCN: n50011821 ISNI: 0000 0003 6851 6524 GND: 110918282 NDL: 00458733

Persondata
Name	Thorwald, Jurgen
Alternative names
Short description	German writer
Date of birth	1916
Place of birth
Date of death	April 4, 2006
Place of death

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