Idea writing for a general audience
Idea writing
Dirk’s most recent book Qualität! Von der Kunst, gut gemachte Dinge zu entdecken, klug zu wählen und genussvoll zu leben (Quality! The Art of Discovering Well-Made Things, Choosing Wisely, and Enjoying a Live Well Lived) explores the importance of quality in the economy and everyday life. Published in 2021 by the renowned Viennese publishing house Brandstätter, the book received five-star reviews and has been featured more than 30 times in print, TV, radio, and podcasts in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Visit this page to find out more.
Travel essay & crime fiction
Before focusing on idea writing, Dirk published two books using the pen name Viktor Iro: the essayistic travel guide Gebrauchsanweisung für Budapest und Ungarn (A User’s Guide to Budapest and Hungary) and the crime novel Tödliche Rückkehr. Kommissar Peringer ermittelt (Deadly Return. Inspector Peringer Investigates).
Viktor Iro
Gebrauchsanweisung für Budapest und Ungarn
Munich: Piper Verlag 2009, 2nd edition 2013
Paperback
224 pages
ISBN 978-3-492-27571-2
Out of print
Academic books
Dirk also wrote two scholarly books, one on the portrayal of screenwriters in feature films (Autorschaft im Spielfilm. Figuren, Schreibszenen, Unzuverlässigkeiten / Authorship in Feature Films. Characters, Writing Scenes, Unreliabilities) and another on cultural aspects of ecological challenges (Ökologische Formen. Die ökologische Frage als kulturelles Problem / Ecological Forms. The Ecological Crisis as a Cultural Problem).
Dirk Hohnsträter
Autorschaft im Spielfilm
Figuren, Schreibszenen, Unzuverlässigkeiten
Cologne: StrzeleckiBooks 2014
Paperback
120 pages
ISBN 978-3-942680-50-9
9,80 Euro