Melanie Raabe

Premiere reading of The Trap on March 3, 2015 in Cologne

Melanie Raabe (born August 1, 1981 in Jena , Gera district , GDR ) is a German writer.

Life

Melanie Raabe was born in Jena and grew up without her Benin- born father in Graitschen ( Eisenberg district ) in Thuringia and in Wiehl in North Rhine-Westphalia . She studied media studies and general and comparative literature at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

As an author, she received her first recognitions in 2011. With her short story The Tooth Fairy , she won 1st place in the German Short Crime Prize of the Tatort Eifel crime festival .

In 2015 she presented her first novel The Trap , published by btb, at the Leipzig Book Fair . Even before it was published, the book was sold to France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the English-speaking world, and the film rights were sold at the Berlinale . “The Trap” was also published as an audio book, read by Devid Striesow and Birgit Minichmayr .

Her second novel, The Truth , was published in August 2016, also by btb . Her third work, Der Schatten , was published in July 2018. Melanie Raabe is the official reading ambassador for the Reading Foundation and lives in Cologne .

Awards

• 2011: German Short Crime Prize , 1st place
• 2015: Culture Prize of the Oberbergischer Kreis
• 2016: Stuttgarter Krimipreis, debut section for Diefallen
• 2019: Shortlist Leo Perutz Prize for Der Schatten

Works

Fiction

• The Tooth Fairy , (under the pseudonym Melanie Vega), short story, 2011.
• Die Ugly , (under the pseudonym Melanie Vega), epubli, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8442-8019-7 .
• The trap , btb, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-75491-5 .
• The truth , btb, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-75492-2 .
• Der Schatten , btb, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-442-75752-7
• Die Wälder , btb, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-75753-4

Radio plays

• The Truth , 2017.
• The Abyss , 2019.

Audio books

• The Trap , 2015.
• The Truth , 2016.
• The Shadow , 2018.
• The Forests , 2019.

Web links

Commons : Melanie Raabe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Personal website
• Biographilia - Author's interview blog.
• Melanie Raabe . Random House Publishing Group.
• Melanie Raabe . Pearl divers .
• Prominent reading ambassadors: Melanie Raabe . Reading Foundation .
• Katja Pohl: bestselling author Melanie Raabe “I believe in the good in people”. In: Oberbergische Volkszeitung. July 14, 2018 . 
• Melanie Raabe. In: International Biographical Archive 13/2017. March 28, 2017. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Elmar Krekeler: Melanie Raabe, this woman is a sensation. In: The world . June 15, 2015, accessed July 15, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Katja Pohl: Young author is about to break through. In: Oberbergische Volkszeitung . March 27, 2015, accessed July 15, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Exceptional talent confirmed at an early stage - successful author Melanie Raabe received the Oberbergischer Kreis cultural sponsorship award in 2015. Oberbergischer Kreis, August 24, 2017, accessed on July 16, 2018 (interview). 
4. ↑ The Stuttgart Crime Prize 2016. In: Stuttgarter Kriminächte. Retrieved July 16, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Leo Perutz Prize for Crime Literature 2019: Five times high voltage. Retrieved July 2, 2019 . 
6. ↑ When the birds fall silent . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 26, 2016, page 10.