Hansjörg Martin wrote the book that this wiki is about, Kein Schnaps für Tamara. He was born in 1920 in Leipzig, a city in Germany. He was originally a painter and a graphic artist. After the war, he had to take other jobs like being a clown, a journalist, a theater set constructor, and an author. In his last years he wrote fourteen detective novels. Most of his novels have been made into movies. A man named Hansjürgen Pohland read Kein Schnaps für Tamara and was inspired to make a movie about it. The movie is called Tamara. Some would say that Hansjörg Martin is the greatest detective story writer. To learn more about Hansjörg in his native tongue Hansjörg Martin Bio in German To learn more about Hansjörg Martin in English [1]