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Bella Block Inventor Doris Gercke Died at the Age of 88

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With the crime character Bella Block she achieved her breakthrough - only as a novel then as years of ZDF series: Now author Doris Gercke died at the age of 88. She was also active in politics.

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The crime writer died at the age of 88. The often quarrelsome Greifswald woman also engaged in the women's and peace movement as well as the fight against neofascism.

·Vienna, Austria
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The writer Doris Gercke is dead. The novelist – inventor of ZDF investigator Bella Block – became 88 years old. Her literary career only began after a few detours.

·Frankfurt, Germany
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She was considered one of the most important German genre authors, her investigator Bella Block became the model for the successful TV series of the same name. Now Doris Gercke died at the age of 88.

·Germany
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The author Doris Gercke is dead. The inventor of the former ZDF investigator "Bella Block" died at the age of 88 on 25 July in Hamburg, as the argument publishing house based in the Hanseatic city announced on Monday evening, citing the family. Gercke, who was born in Greifswald in 1937, had made literary career in detours. After an administrative apprenticeship and years as a housewife and mother, she took off a gifted abitur at the age of 40 a…

·Vienna, Austria
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The writer Doris Gercke is dead. The crime writer - inventor of the ZDF investigator "Bella Block" - died at the age of 88 in Hamburg.

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Doris Gercke studied at the age of 40 and wrote several crime novels, children's books and poetry. Now the inventor of the former ZDF investigator Bella Block died.

·Germany
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