Rolf Kalmuczak (17 April 1938 in

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– 10 March 2007 in

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) was a German author. He was an editor of daily papers, freelance contributor at ''

Stern The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship. Ori ...

'', lector and one of the authors of the

Jerry Cotton Jerry Cotton is the fictional character in a series of pulp magazine-type crime novels. The novels have been written by many different writers in German-speaking countries and in Finland over the course of several decades. Overview The novel ...

series. Since 1966 he had used more than 100 pseudonyms, written some 160 youth books, 36 film scripts, 170 paperback crime novels, and 200 booklet-novels. He admits that he wrote the

TKKG The Junior detective series TKKG is a German series of audio dramas and novels created by "Stefan Wolf", a pseudonym used by Rolf Kalmuczak. The characters and their creator In all German-speaking countries they are the most commercially succe ...

book series as "Stefan Wolf". Rolf Kalmuczak was married with one daughter and lived in

Pseudonyms

Best-known works

The best-known works of the author published under the alias Stefan Wolf are the following youth book series: *"Ein Fall für

" *"Tom und Locke" *"Der Magier und das Power-Trio" *"Der Puma und seine Freunde"

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalmuczak, Rolf 1938 births 2007 deaths People from Nordhausen, Thuringia German male writers