Once a copywriter for beer advertising, now a crime novelist: Brigitte S. Rutel from Mauern presents a new novel
Created: 02/17/2022, 3:00 p.m
Once a successful copywriter, Brigitte S. Rutel now writes novels in Mauer in her retirement.
Her latest work "Arrow in the Flesh" leads to Venice.
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No heavy fare: that's what novelist Brigitte S. Rutel from Mauer wants to offer her readers.
Now she has published her latest thriller.
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- An arrow flies through the air in Venice - a man in evening suit is dead, another flees.
Was it an accident or was it murder?
The crime author Brigitte S. Rutel investigates this question in her latest novel "Pfeil im Fleisch - Cupidos Rache".
A crime novel that is straightforward and direct and was written in walls where the author also lives.
“When I write, then I write!” says Rutel, meaning that she is not one of those authors who struggles with writing inhibitions.
The creative result: she has already published ten books, and she usually writes two new novels a year.
The series surrounding the former investigator Amadeus von Waldenbruck takes up most of the space.
They are novels that, while all self-contained narratives, are loosely connected through the protagonist - meaning the reader can start with either volume without any problems.
Popular beer commercials with a star cast from her pen
Writing novels for Rutel started in 2016 when she retired and also moved to Mauer.
Previously, she worked for large international and German advertising agencies, and with great success.
She penned, for example, a well-known beer advertisement with the folk actor Walter Sedlmayr, who was somehow a "Zwiedawurzn", but which Rutel means more affectionately, also because she got on very well with Sedlmayr.
For the Nockherberg speeches, she says, "I was even his test reader".
And because she has written so much for advertisements in her life, the path to publication for her own work quickly became clear.
She definitely didn't want a publisher who might talk her into it.
That's why her novels are only and exclusively available on Amazon.
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Copywriter is a very good starting position for an author, according to Rutel, for whom it is important not to present heavy fare, but simply literature that is intended to entertain.
"I write what I would like to read myself," says the author. But what does such an extremely creative writer like to read?
She loves the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon dearly, says Rutel, but also the stories by Agatha Christie, the classics of crime literature per se. She appreciates them very much.
The 75-year-old wants to encourage older people
As a balance to writing, the author likes to go hiking and enjoys a good meal with her life partner, the artist Wolfdietrich Hoeveler, who also designs the graphics for her novels.
What is also important to the author from Mauer: She wants to show older people that you can start a second career in all kinds of areas even when you are old – like she did with writing crime novels.
"I'm 75 years old now," says Rutel.
"That should be a good example that you're never too old."
In fact, the reader does not notice that Rutel only started writing novels late, because they are fresh and dusty and are not classic regional crime novels either.
Although there are always cross-references to the immediate surroundings, Rutel actually wants to avoid this, because the mayor of Mauer would, according to the author, certainly not find it funny if he were murdered in a literary manner.
Was it an accident or murder in Venice?
Crime fans are advised to read the author's latest release to get closer to the solution to the mystery, because it's worth it.
Richard Lorenz
Information about the book and the author
You can buy the novels from Amazon as a softcover or as an e-book, and all of Brigitte S. Rutel's works can also be borrowed from the Moosburg public library.
Further information about the work and the author can be found on her homepage www.bsrutel.de.
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