Gunter Gerlach

Gunter Gerlach (born in Leipzig in 1941) was a German writer. From 1961 to 1967, he studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, initially focusing on photography. He had previously trained as an electromechanical technician and later worked as a photographer and advertising copywriter. He began publishing literary texts in the 1980s and increasingly turned to crime fiction in the 1990s. His works include “Tod in Hamburg,” “Liebe und Tod in Hamburg,” “Mord ohne Leiche,” and the short-story collection “Von Mädchen und Mördern.” His writing received several awards, including the Deutscher Krimipreis and multiple Friedrich Glauser Prizes.