Ariadne detective novels
Ariadne has been the political women's crime series of Argument Verlag since 1988 and was founded by Frigga Haug . Else Laudan is the current publisher.
history
The concept of the series revolves around entertainment literature as a cultural-political project. First of all, political women’s and “lesbian thrillers” were published on an equal footing, in which women appear confident and dominate the scene. The feminist editors wanted to recast the crime genre , which was dominated by macho investigators at the time .
In the 1990s, Ariadne's growing popularity sparked a real boom in women's crime with some publishers. The most successful and popular Ariadne titles of the time were the crime novels by Marion Foster , Sarah Dreher , Katherine V. Forrest , JM Redmann , PM Carlson and Val McDermid .
program
Since 2000, the focus of the Ariadne series has been on the production of novels by German-speaking authors such as Monika Geier , Christine Lehmann , Dagmar Scharsich, Merle Kröger and Anne Goldmann, as well as currently the French thriller writer Dominique Manotti , whose romans noirs are typical for socially critical like are also the literary claims of the Ariadne series. The indigenous author Marcie Rendon came from the USA, who , with Am Roten Fluss, presented a kind of western crime thriller from a dreamy female protagonist's perspective.
With the inclusion of the Scottish "Queen of Tartan Noir" Denise Mina and her novel Blut Salz Wasser , adequately translated by Zoë Beck , the small publisher succeeded in making it to the top of the crime thriller list for the first time with two novels . In June, the Mina title even reached the top spot, while Manotti's Kesseltreiben came sixth in the Top10.
Web links
- Website of the crime series at Argument Verlag
- Interview with the editor
- Article in the youth magazine of the Federal Office for Political Education
supporting documents
- ↑ Edina Picco: People at the Hole , review in Der Freitag from April 12, 2018, accessed August 16, 2018
- ↑ Crime best list in June: The world as a crime thriller and delusion , FAZ from June 3, 2018, accessed August 16, 2018