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- Birth nameMichael Preute
- Jacques Berndorf was born on October 22, 1936 in Duisburg, Germany. He was a writer, known for Brennendes Schweigen (2000) and Wortwechsel (1982). He was married to Angelika Koch, Geli Gatzke-Preute and ???. He died on July 3, 2022 in Dreis-Brück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- SpousesAngelika Koch(1996 - ?) (divorced)Geli Gatzke-Preute(? - July 3, 2022) (his death)??? (divorced)
- Jacques Berndorf is the pseudonym of German journalist Michael Preute, who sets his mysteries in the Eifel region of Germany.
- According to SWR (Südwestrundfunk), he last lived in seclusion in the Vulkaneifel.
- Berndorf knew early on that writing is his great passion. As a teenager he wrote short stories. After an interlude as a medical student, he went to the "Duisburger Generalanzeiger" as a journalist. He switched to magazines, made a career.
- For twelve years he was a reporter all over the world, in wars and crises, in Lebanon, Vietnam and South Africa. "And at some point it turned out that I couldn't take the pictures anymore," he said. He became addicted to alcohol and got out.
- He himself had a number of things in common with his cranky investigator Siggi Baumeister: both lived on Heyrother Strasse, were journalists by training, and loved pipe tobacco and cats.
- I think it's sad to have to die one day. I just find it sad because I love living so much,
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