https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/ Fri, 15 May 2026 16:18:54 +0000 Root — BernieGunther en https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/894/german-slang Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:29:59 +0000 Root Antiquercus 894@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions Examples: "mouse" "jelly" "drip" "spinner" "garter handler"

Please add to the list of striking slang terms.]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/890/bernies-demise Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:06:54 +0000 Root Stuart1960 890@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions
I sometimes find myself speculating on Bernie's final days. I see him back in Berlin, living modestly on limited means. The cigarettes, booze and conditions he's endured preclude a long life, perhaps he just about makes it to 1970. Despite his liberal leanings he was still born in the Victorian era and I doubt he has any love for the concrete buildings going up around him. The counter culture? Part of him should celebrate it's arrival but I'm not sure sure he would. I'm afraid I see his well worn cynicism developing into bitterness.

A melancholy view of the end of his life, apologies if this runs counter to anything stated in the novels, it's been a while since I read Field Gray]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/912/where-is-john-lee Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:15:41 +0000 Root Neurotek 912@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions I can not figure a reason why Mr. Kerr would switch for 4 and then go back to the original narrator. Whatever the reason, I'm going to have to skip the next 4 books so that the "real Bernie Gunther" has his voice again. I would read these 4 in print, but my life will not permit me the luxury or the patience.
Another one of my favorite authors had to switch narration after over a dozen of the "installments", but it was only because Ralph Cosham died suddenly. The author researched a while before choosing an appropriate replacement. Paul Hecht is NOT Bernie!!
]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/909/gunther-biography Mon, 16 Nov 2015 02:17:59 +0000 Root Traveller 909@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions

Bernie Gunther

- 1896 - born

- 1914-8 - soldier, Turkey

- 1919 - FG
Konisberg, honeymoon, 1st wife.

- 1931 - FG - Berlin Detective
Squabbles between Commies and Nazis.

- 1932 aQF - Berlin Detective
Investigates child murders. Forced off case due to political reasons.

- 1933 aQF - Adlon Hotel house detective
Witnessed the destruction of Reichstag.

- 1934 - FG - Berlin Police officer.
? Potsdan, imprisoned briefly for defending a Jewish police officer.

- 1936 - MV
Private detective. Hermann Six, wealthy industrialist client. Berlin Olympics.

- 1936
Agent in Dachau, by Heydrich.

- 1937 Sep - TOFtO
Private detective. Berlin-Palestine. Travels to Palestine with Adolf Eichmann, to facilitate a Jew emigrating. Mixed with German politics.

- late 1938 - aPC - private detective / recalled to Police
Investigation of a murder conspiracy, designed to provide a pretext to launch a pogrom against German Jews. Spiritualism.

- 1940 - June 1941 - FG. France.
Sent to France by Heydrich to find Mielke, communist. Stayed on one year.

- 1941 Jun-Jul - TOftO
The 316th reserve police battalion attached to the 49th Army.

- June 1941 ItDRN
Ukraine, executes NKVD squad.

Gehlen’s Foreign Armies East Intelligence Section

War Crimes Bureau of the German High Command.

- 1941 Sep - PF
suicidal,

- 1942 June 8-9 - PF
death/funeral of Heydrich.

- 1942 Summer - LfZ.
Berlin: insomnia, depressed, suicidal. International Police Conf. Dalia Dresner affair / Goebels. Short visit to Switzerland. Due to his affair with Dalia, exiled to the Russian Front.

- 1942 January - 1944 February ItDRN
Wehrmact War Crimes Bureau

- 1943 March - aMWB
Katyn Forest investigation.

- 1943 July - TOftO
Investigation of Army corruption.

- 1943 Sep - TOftO
Transferred to Russian front, by Gestapo, as he refused to drop investigation.

- 1944 Feb - FG
Transferred to Russian front. Northern army, intelligence officer.

- 1944 June - 1945 March - FG
Intelligence office, Konigsberg. Fought, until captured.
Russian labor camp. PoW. 2 years.

- 1946 - FG
Miner in uranium mine. Escaped, return to West Germany/Berlin.

- 1947 - aGR
Berlin, private detective. Russian intelligence.

- 1947 Winter, ItDRN
Gambling, Vienna.

- 1949 Munich, - TOFtO
Hotelier, private detective. Wife, Kirsten, dies. Finger cut off. Deceived into masquerading as war criminal.

- 1950, early - TOFtO
Boat to Argentina with false identity.

- 1950 - Buenos Aires - aQF
Investigating Nazi exiles. Meets Peron and Evita. He discovers Argentinian death camps for Jews, constructed by Nazi exiles. Forced to fell the country.

- 1954 - FG
Living in Cuba, captured by Americans. Imprisoned in New York.

- 1954 - FG
Transported to Germany. Interrogated by CIA for communist info. Mielke

- 1954 - FG
France, interrogated by French for communist info.
Betrayed CIA, escaped with help of Mielke, with Elisabeth.

- 1956 — French Riviera — LfZ:
Mooning over actress Dalia Dresner.
B came to the French Riviera from Berlin. New job as hotel concierge with Leuthard.]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/814/berlin-noir-reviews-returns Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:48:28 +0000 Root reillylives 814@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions
http://berlin-noir.blogspot.ca/]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/103/the-july-20th-1944-plot-to-kill-hitler Fri, 10 May 2013 10:26:41 +0000 Root jep1916 103@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/80/audio-books Sat, 23 Mar 2013 05:09:07 +0000 Root bladerunner66 80@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/245/books-in-chronological-order Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:54:21 +0000 Root jdarnold 245@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/895/new-bernie-gunther-the-lady-from-zagreb Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:41:47 +0000 Root reillylives 895@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lady-Zagreb-Bernie-Gunther/dp/0399167641/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1417426735&sr=1-1]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/926/has-anyone-read-leaving-berlin-by-joseph-kanon Sun, 06 Mar 2016 06:09:14 +0000 Root Moderators 926@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/book+reviews+fiction+fans+will+love+this+trio/11341402/story.html

We here at BGHQ haven't read it yet but we will now. Fun!]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/920/the-lady-of-zagreb-and-bernies-p38-safety-catch Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:04:34 +0000 Root PiereLeGrand 920@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/923/as-if-she-really-meant-it-like-a-proper-german-wife Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:05:38 +0000 Root PeterE 923@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions
I´ve just finished reading "The Lady from Zagreb", an excellent book in my opinion. I would like to ask you all here on the forum about the moment where Bernie marries Kirsten (p. 331 in my copy). Kirsten moves the ring onto the finger on her right hand and Bernie notices this, and - as I understand it - is quite thankful/proud/happy about it. Maybe it´s a strange thing for me to get hung up on (or maybe I´m just a bit stupid) - but why is this so important to him? Is it that deep down behind all his cynicism, he´s quite an old-school romantic?

Best regards,
Peter]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/204/catching-the-strangler Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:28:20 +0000 Root tigerfan6884 204@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/250/worrying-rumour-about-casting Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:24:26 +0000 Root JW500 250@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions Clive Owen or Dougray Scott, spring to mind as having the right look, and not American. In the books the troubled post war relationships frequently involve American characters.]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/917/errors-the-lady-from-zagreb Sat, 02 Jan 2016 00:36:12 +0000 Root Jim 917@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions
"Sergenat Bleiker, a detective from the Zurich City Police, met me with my visa and some Swiss money, which I bought with the gold reichsmarks that Eggen had given me: the Swiss didn't like our paper money and, even with Hitler's head on them preferred the hundred-mark coins."

From a numismatic viewpoint, there are two factual errors in the above quote. First, Germany never produced 100 mark gold coins in the entire 20th Century, let alone in the 12 years of the Third Reich. Secondly, while Hitler never had any hesittion about having his image being placed on postage stamps, for some reason his otherwise ubiquitous portrait never graced any Third Reich currency, either the coins or the banknotes.

A small mistake in the scale of things. Enjoying the book immensly.

Happy (and, hopefully, a more Peaceful) New Year Everyone.
]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/914/danish-award-has-not-entered-the-award-list Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:18:55 +0000 Root waltherk 914@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions See more of Kriminalakademiet: http://www.detdanskekriminalakademi.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139:arets-priser-2014&catid=6:priser-og-diplomer&Itemid=13

Krimimessen: http://krimimessen.dk/]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/927/visit-locations Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:20:55 +0000 Root Dudleyduoflush 927@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions I have 10 days off this summer and need a purpose.
Ta]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/925/is-this-doras-or-gunthers-line Sun, 06 Mar 2016 05:47:43 +0000 Root GeishaGirl 925@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions This might be a stupid question, but could you please help me to understand the English in "If the dead rise not", Part 1, Chapter 30?

What kind of "that" would shut Gunther up....? The fact that Max is somebody who FBI sets eye on? Or, the fact that the Gestapo is not so interested in?
Also, whose line is the "I suppose... blah blah blah..." below?

‘I suppose that’s why they asked the FBI for information about Max.’ Dora laughed. ‘Yes, I thought that would shut you up.

At first, of course I thought it's Dora's (because "Dora laughed" follows...), but became not sure about these sentences.
It seems to me that I can take it's Gunther's.

Thank you for your help in advance!!]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/924/philip-kerrs-2016-u-s-book-tour Sat, 05 Mar 2016 00:08:54 +0000 Root Moderators 924@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions
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202-364-1919]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/922/latest-book Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:36:59 +0000 Root Nigel 922@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/905/ben-hur Sun, 23 Aug 2015 17:04:27 +0000 Root howardwaugh 905@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/919/swiss-bunkers Fri, 08 Jan 2016 18:41:31 +0000 Root Stuart1960 919@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/the-new-lives-of-decommissioned-swiss-army-bunkers/423057/]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/916/kdp-daubings Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:18:54 +0000 Root steve 916@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/915/did-bernie-meet-john-russell-and-effi-koenen Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:07:37 +0000 Root sandtrekker 915@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/898/the-lady-from-zagreb-on-sale-in-us-starting-april-7th Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:11:04 +0000 Root Moderators 898@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/874/german-language Fri, 16 May 2014 08:52:47 +0000 Root BerlinBde 874@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions Have these books been translated into German and what are the titles of the German versions? I have a German friend who would really enjoy this series and although his English is fairly good I think he would miss some of the enjoyment of the story if he was constantly interpreting in his head or having to refer to a colloquial dictionary. Thanks if you can advise.]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/904/is-the-hbo-version-of-bernies-adventures-still-on-tap Sun, 09 Aug 2015 18:16:28 +0000 Root robertostevedore 904@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/864/heydrich-and-bernie Fri, 25 Oct 2013 03:25:31 +0000 Root Romulan 864@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/908/upcoming-bernie-novel-info Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:35:31 +0000 Root reillylives 908@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions http://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Silence-Bernie-Gunther-ebook/dp/B00TY3ZS1K]]> https://www.berniegunther.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/910/new-scott-manson-book Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:12:19 +0000 Root Moderators 910@/forum/index.php?p=/discussions FALSE NINE.

The first two books in the series are JANUARY WINDOW and HAND OF GOD.

Anybody reading these? ]]> en