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Stefan Haenni (born 4 August 1958 in Thun) is a Swiss painter and a crime novel writer. [1]
Stefan Haenni visited the Schule für Gestaltung in Bern and studied at the University of Bern and the Université de Fribourg history of art and psychology. With his painting Haenni reached in the 1980 first appreciations. He realized among other things works with the portraits from the Nobelprice winner Nagib Machfus and the surrealistic Swiss painter Meret Oppenheim. The leading subject of modern oriental painting reached Haenni after a trip along the Nile in 1990. Many works were created after that like West-östlicher Divan from Goethe, the series of Monde Arabe and Lawrence of Arabia – new paintings about an old film. "Haenni's paintings live from affection for the world of the Orient without denying their anchoring in Western culture and are such important messengers of international understanding as no other Swiss artist has to show in this perseverance and at the same time lightheartedness." [2] His works are collected in several Swiss Museums of Modern Art, Swiss Banks (BEKB, Credit Suisse, UBS) and private Art-Collections.
Since 2009 Stefan Haenni has also written five crime novels about the Thun private detective Hanspeter Feller (Gmeiner Verlag). The first three novels Narrentod, Brahmsrösi and Scherbenhaufen form the Thun Crime Trilogy, in which the court jester [[Karl the Bold| Charles the Bold as Fulehung, Johannes Brahms with the Thun Sonata or Heinrich von Kleist with the broken jug were at the center of the plot. The crime novel Tellspielopfer is about a robbery murder in the area of the Tellspiele Interlaken. Berner Bärendreck tells the story of a Bernese patrician who gets into trouble because of a painting by Ferdinand Hodler. Todlerone in 2021 is a collection of 24 shortstories playing in the Bernese Oberland. With the anthology Zürihegel in 2022, he expanded the murderous radius into the Zurich Oberland.
In the contemporary crime novel Eiffel's Guilt (2023), Haenni depicts Switzerland's largest railway accident, caused in 1891 by the collapse of the railway bridge near Münchenstein constructed by Gustave Eiffel, and he tells the story of a survivor who, through the tragic events, came across the trail of a devious crime.
Stefan Haenni lives in Thun/Switzerland.
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