Andrea Maria Schenkel
Andrea Maria Schenkel (born March 21, 1962 in Regensburg ) is a German writer .
Works
Andrea Maria Schenkel published her debut novel Tannöd in 2006 , which is based on an unsolved murder in Hinterkaifeck, Bavaria . For this novel, she received the German Krimi Preis , the Friedrich Glauser Prize , in 2007 , came third in the KrimiWelt list of best crime novels of the year, and was honored with the Swedish Krimipreis - The Martin Beck Award in 2008 . Tannöd has sold more than 1,000,000 copies so far (as of November 2009). The first edition of the book, which was published by Edition Nautilus , was only 1000 copies. In 2007 she and Monica Bleibtreu received the Corine Weltbild reader award for the audio book for the novel .
In 2007, Norddeutsche Rundfunk ( NDR ) produced a 70-minute radio play of the novel Tannöd (radio play adaptation and director: Norbert Schaeffer ).
Her second novel Kalteis , based on the case of Johann Eichhorn , is about a woman murderer. For this novel, she was also awarded the German Crime Prize in 2008 and reached number 10 in the 2007 annual best list of the KrimiWelt best list .
Her third novel, Bunker , was published in February 2009 , the story of a woman who is held captive for days by an unknown perpetrator. In contrast to Tannöd and Kalteis , this story is fictional.
Schenkel's fourth novel Finsterau was published in March 2012 after the publisher switched from Edition Nautilus to Hoffmann and Campe . The theme is a historical murder case from the post-war period, which Schenkel moved to a village in the Bavarian Forest , which, however, did not actually take place in Finsterau . In her novel Täuscher from 2013, she again oriented herself on an actual incident - a double murder in Landshut in 1922.
With her work When love was finally published in March 2016, she leaves the genre of the crime novel. The book describes the fate of German, Jewish emigrants during the Second World War up to the present day. The work is also available as an eBook and audio book, read by Torben Kessler .
Personal
After completing secondary school, she completed an apprenticeship at the post office. In 1992 she had her first child and subsequently became a housewife. Her debut novel Tannöd only appeared in 2006 . In 2012, Schenkel lived partly in her former place of residence near Regensburg and partly in Westchester , a suburb of New York , with her partner. She is divorced from her first husband, with whom she has three children.
Allegations of plagiarism
Allegations of the journalist Peter Leuschner that her novel Tannöd was a plagiarism of his books Hinterkaifeck. Germany's Most Mysterious Murder Case (1978) and The Hinterkaifeck Murder Case (1997) were rejected in the last instance by the Munich Higher Regional Court in 2009. The dispute revolved around the rights of a non-fiction author to real material, which is proven from a variety of sources. The focus was on the question of whether the dramatization of the material and supplementation with fictional passages creates an independent literary work.
bibliography
- 2006: Tannöd , Edition Nautilus, Hamburg. ISBN 978-389401-479-7 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list in 2007 )
- 2007: Kalteis , Edition Nautilus, Hamburg. ISBN 978-389401-549-7 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from September 3 to 23, 2007 )
- 2009: Bunker , Edition Nautilus, Hamburg. ISBN 978-389401-586-2 .
- 2012: Finsterau , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-455-40381-7 .
- 2013: Täuscher , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-455-40429-6 .
- 2016: When love was finally over , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-455-40382-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Andrea Maria Schenkel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Andrea Maria Schenkel at perlentaucher.de
- Andrea Maria Schenkel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website by Andrea Maria Schenkel
- Publisher information on the author and work at Hoffmann and Campe
- Andrea Maria Schenkel in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
Individual evidence
- ^ ZDF morning magazine from November 17, 2009
- ↑ a b Malte Conradi and Hannah Wilhelm: I've just lost myself: The bestselling author Andrea Maria Schenkel on the unexpected success, the pleasure in writing and why both made their marriage impossible (interview with Schenkel), in: Süddeutsche Zeitung May 25 2012, p. 26
- ↑ Petra Pluwatsch: Why does someone become a murderer? . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger (Cologne, No. 49, February 27, 2009)
- ↑ Andrea Maria Schenkel in an interview about her new novel “Finsterau” Passauer Neue Presse on March 5, 2012
- ↑ Lothar Schröder: Poor thigh thriller. In: Rheinische Post from March 6, 2012
- ↑ Munich Higher Regional Court rejects appeal against »Tannöd«
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schenkel, Andrea Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |