Armin Öhri
{{short description|Liechtensteiner writer (born 1978)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}Armin Öhri (born September 23, 1978) is a Liechtensteiner writer who was among the winners of the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature. He received it for Die dunkle Muse (The Dark Muse), the first novel of a crime series. Armin Öhri grew up in Ruggell and works in Switzerland. He has been active since 2009. His works are influenced by 19th century crime fiction. He is a best-selling author in Liechtenstein.
Life
Armin Öhri was born on 23 September 1978 and grew up in Ruggell in Liechtenstein.{{Cite web |title=European Union Prize for Literature site's "about the author" page |url=https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/armin-%C3%B6hri |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103071536/https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/armin-%C3%B6hri |archive-date=2021-11-03 |access-date=2020-06-27}} He studied history, philosophy and German linguistics and literature at the University of Bern.{{Cite web |last=KG |first=Literatur-Couch Medien GmbH & Co |title=Autor*in |url=https://www.histo-couch.de/autoren/1655-armin-oehri/ |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=www.histo-couch.de |language=de}} Öhri lives in Switzerland, where he works in education at a business school. Öhri has been active as a writer since 2009. His works are influenced by 19th century crime fiction.
Öhri' is a bestselling author in Liechtenstein.{{Cite web |title=Literatursalon.li - Armin Öhri |url=https://www.literatursalon.li/autoren/armin-%25C3%25B6hri |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250126014407/https://www.literatursalon.li/autoren/armin-%C3%B6hri |archive-date=2025-01-26 |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=www.literatursalon.li |language=en-US}} His work includes stories and novels. His debut novel was published by van Eck Verlag in 2009, and was called Das Nachtvolk. He switched to German publishing house Gmeiner in 2011.
In 2014 Öhri was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature for his crime novel Die dunkle Muse (The Dark Muse). The book was the first of a series of linked chronological historical crime novels. It is set in Berlin in 1865, and the protagonist is a student, Julius Bentheim, solving the question of why a philosophy professor murdered a prostitute. His works have been translated internationally, and were bestsellers in Spain and South America.
With author Daniel Batliner, Öhri founded Literatursalon in 2011, an organisation which hosts events and a website profiling Liechtenstein authors and writing.{{Cite web |title=Uber uns |url=https://www.literatursalon.li/%C3%BCber-uns |access-date=23 April 2025 |website=Literatursalon}} He also founded the Liechtenstein Authors' Association 'IG Wort'.
Works
- Das Nachtvolk. Erzählung. Van Eck-Verlag 2009. {{ISBN|978-3905881028}}
- Die Entführung. Erzählung. Gmeiner-Verlag 2010, {{ISBN|978-3905881097}}
- Sinfonie des Todes. Historischer Kriminalroman. Gmeiner-Verlag 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-8392-1145-8}}
- Die dunkle Muse. Julius Bentheims erster Fall. Historischer Kriminalroman. Gmeiner-Verlag 2012, {{ISBN|978-3-8392-1295-0}}. Translated into Albanian, Spanish, Italian and Croatian.
- Der Bund der Okkultisten. Julius Bentheims zweiter Fall. Historischer Kriminalroman. Gmeiner-Verlag 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-8392-1500-5}}
- Die Dame im Schatten. Julius Bentheims dritter Fall. Historischer Kriminalroman. Gmeiner-Verlag 2015, {{ISBN|978-3-8392-1729-0}}
- Die letzte Reise der Hindenburg. Kurzroman. E-Book, Gmeiner-Verlag, 2016 {{ISBN|978-3-7349-9213-1}}
- Professor Harpers Expedition. Historischer Roman. E-Book, Gmeiner-Verlag, 2016 {{ISBN|978-3-7349-9223-0}}
- Liechtenstein. Klein, aber oho Herausgeber. Gmeiner-Verlag, 2016, {{ISBN|978-3-8392-1986-7}}
- Liechtenstein. Roman einer Nation. Zeitgeschichtlicher Kriminalroman. Gmeiner-Verlang 2016, {{ISBN|978-3-8392-1978-2}}