Astrid Fritz

(2016)

Astrid Fritz (* 1959 in Pforzheim ) is a German author .

biography

Astrid Fritz was born and raised in Pforzheim. In Munich , Avignon and Freiburg im Breisgau she first studied veterinary medicine , then theater studies and finally German and Romance studies . After completing her studies, she worked in Darmstadt as a specialist magazine editor, then as a training officer and, after completing her training as an IT clerk, as a technical editor for a Freiburg software company. In 1994 she and her family went to Santiago de Chile for three years , where she freelanced for a German-Chilean weekly newspaper and wrote her first novel manuscript. She is now a freelance copywriter and lives with her family in Waiblingen near Stuttgart .

Together with Bernhard Thill , she wrote the city ​​guide Unknown Freiburg . While researching this, she came across the life story of Catharina Stadellmenin , who was burned as a supposed witch in 1599 , and made her the protagonist of her first novel The Witch of Freiburg .

With the following volumes, The Witch's Daughter and The Juggler , a trilogy was created over three generations in the early modern period .

In April 2007 her novel The Girl and the Duchess was published . The focus is on the Württemberg Duchess Sabina and the peasant girl Marie, against the historical background of the first peasant uprisings of " Poor Konrad " at the beginning of the 16th century.

Works

city-guide

• Unknown Freiburg . Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i. Br 2004, ISBN 978-3-793-00879-8 .

Freiburg trilogy

• The witch of Freiburg . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003, ISBN 978-3-499-25211-2 .
• The witch's daughter . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 978-3-499-25212-9 .
• The juggler . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 978-3-499-25213-6 .

Begin Serafina series

• The ash cross . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-26649-2 .
• Host sacrilege . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-26796-3 .
• The infirmary . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-26945-5 .
• Death in Hell Valley . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-27347-6 .
• The dead woman in Henkersgasse . Reinbek 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-27654-5 .

Other novels

• The girl and the duchess . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-25214-3 .
• The call of the condor . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-24511-4 .
• The vagabond . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-24406-3 .
• The beggar prophet . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-25250-1 .
• The Pestengel of Freiburg . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-25747-6 .
• The bride of heaven . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-25810-7 .
• How the Christmas tree came into the world . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-26718-5 .
• Executioner marie . Kindler, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-463-40651-0 .
• Under the banner of the cross . Wunderlich, Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-805-25100-6 .
• The robber bride . Wunderlich, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-805-20293-0 .
• The witch hunter . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-27467-1 .
• The tower of light . Rowohlt, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-499-00119-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Astrid Fritz in the catalog of the German National Library
• official website of the author
• Interview with Astrid Fritz on Histocouch.de