Cay Rademacher

Cay Rademacher (* 1965 in Flensburg ) is a German journalist and writer . He writes detective novels and non-fiction books on historical topics.

Life

Cay Rademacher studied Anglo-American history, ancient history and philosophy in Cologne and Washington, DC. As a freelance journalist, he wrote for GEO , Merian , mare , Die Zeit and SZ-Magazin . He has been a permanent editor at GEO since 1999 . He helped set up the GEO Epoche magazine and is its managing editor.

In addition, Rademacher writes historical non-fiction books and novels. His topics range from the time of Pharaoh Merenptah , the historical Jesus of Nazareth , the Essenes , the first crusade , Paris in the 14th century to the last voyage of the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin , the sinking of the Athenia , the Hamburg rubble murderer and the fall of the Estonia . He also authored travel guides for Rome , Cologne, Washington, DC, Provence and France .

Rademacher lived and worked in Hamburg , the setting of the trilogy about Chief Inspector Frank Stave, which takes place in the post-war period after the Second World War ( Der Trümmermörder , Der Schieber , Der Fälscher ). In 2013 he moved with his family to Provence, where his new hero, the French gendarme Capitaine Roger Blanc, is based.

Works (selection)

Novels

• 1996: Murder in the Praetorium. Historical detective novel from the Roman city of Cologne , Sisyphos, ISBN 3-928637-16-9 .
  • Revised new edition 2015: Murder in the Praetorium. Historical Cologne crime thriller cmz-Verlag Rheinbach, ISBN 978-3-87062-168-1 .
• 1998: The airship . Nymphenburger, ISBN 3-485-00783-8 .
• 1999: Estonia is a secret . Nymphenburger, ISBN 3-485-00822-2 .
• 2001: Murder in the Valley of the Kings . Nymphenburger, ISBN 3-485-00869-9 .
• 2003: The secret of the Essenes. A detective novel from ancient Rome , Nymphenburger, ISBN 3-485-00959-8 (as a paperback under the title Mord im Circus Maximus ).
• 2007: In nomine mortis. Historical detective novel , Nymphenburger, ISBN 978-3-485-01099-3 .
• 2011: The rubble killer , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-6154-5 .
• 2012: Der Schieber , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-9687-5 .
• 2013: The Forger , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-9695-0 .
• 2014: Murderous Mistral. A Provence thriller with Capitaine Roger Blanc , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-9756-8 .
• 2015: Deadly Camargue. A Provence thriller with Capitaine Roger Blanc , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-9785-8 .
• 2016: Burning Midi. A Provence thriller with Capitaine Roger Blanc , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-9819-0 .
• 2017: Dangerous Côte Bleue. A Provence thriller with Capitaine Roger Blanc , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-9828-2 .
• 2018: Dark Arles. A Provence thriller with Capitaine Roger Blanc , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-9875-6 .
• 2019: One last summer in Méjean: detective novel , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-8371-4
• 2019: Calès fateful: A Provence thriller with Capitaine Roger Blanc , DuMont Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-8366-0

Non-fiction

• 2005: Who Was Jesus? Man and myth . Ellert and Richter, ISBN 3-8319-0197-X (later under the title: Jesus and his world. A historical search for traces ).
• 2009: three days in September. The last voyage of the Athenia in 1939 . Mare, ISBN 978-3-86648-099-5 .
• 2012: Bloody pilgrimage. The first crusade to the Holy Land . Piper, ISBN 978-3-492-05433-1 .

editor

• 2007: The History of the Jews in Germany . Ellert & Richter, ISBN 978-3-8319-0264-4 (with Arno Herzig ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Cay Rademacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Letters from Provence , Cay Rademacher's blog
• Cay Rademacher at DuMont Buchverlag
• Cay Rademacher at mare online