Peter- Paul Zahl was born in 1944 in Freiburg/Breisgau, spent his childhood in the GDR and lived later in the Rhineland. He left for Berlin in 1964 as a conscientious objector. In 1965 he had his first public reading and since 1966 was a member of the Dortmunder Gruppe 61. In 1967 he founded his own publishing house. Zahl was committed to the APO (extraparliamentary opposition) and was a member of the movement 2.Juni. In 1974 he was condemned to a prison term for taking part in a shooting with the police. After his release in 1982 he spent some time in Grenada, in the Seychelles and in Italy. Since 1985 he lives in Long Bay, Jamaica. He has nine children, three of whom are stepdaughters. In 1980 he was awarded the Förderpreis für Literatur of the Free Hanse City Bremen and 1995 the Glauser Prize
for the best criminal novel in the German language.
Kampfhähne
Kriminalroman
Fischer Tb. Verlag 2005
Im Todestrakt
Kriminalroman
Fischer Tb. Verlag 2004