Barbara Krohn

Barbara Krohn (* 5. June 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German writer of detective novels and translator from the Italian .

Life

Barbara Krohn completed her German and Italian studies with a Magister Artium . She spent four years as a lecturer at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples . The first literary translations from Italian followed, as well as work as a German as a foreign language and further education teacher. Barbara Krohn has lived in Regensburg with her partner and two sons since 1992 . Since 2003 she has been working there as a lecturer for creative writing at the Regensburg Student Academy. From 2008 she has been holding annual courses for adults at a private art school.

Create

In the 1990s, Krohn translated numerous novels from Italian. Her first crime novel Der Tote unter der Piazza , set in Naples, was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize like Weg vom Fenster - located in Regensburg . In 2002 she published her third detective novel Rosas Returns , a criminal story about happiness and unhappiness in the family, which was filmed by ZDF under the title Der Tote am Strand (with Silke Bodenbender as "Rosa"). In 2002 she received the City of Regensburg's Culture Promotion Prize . The episode novel The Love of Others was followed in 2004 by a volume of poetry with the title Places of Love . In 2006 she successfully continued her career as a crime writer with three novels about the Neapolitan “Commissario Gentilini” and the Hamburg journalist “Sonja Zorn”.

Works

• The dead under the piazza . Structure of the paperback, Berlin 1997; 7. A. ibid. 1999, ISBN 3-7466-1571-2
• Away from the window . Structure of the paperback, Berlin 1999; 7. A. ibid. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7466-2429-7
• Rosa's return . Rütten and Loening, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-352-00582-6 ; Structure paperback, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7466-1941-6
• The love of others . Rütten and Loening, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-352-00703-9 ; Structure paperback, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7466-2141-0
• Places of love . Poems. Glade, Viechtach 2004, ISBN 3-929517-64-7
• The dead of Santa Lucia . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-46177-4
• What remains in the dark . Goldmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-46453-1
• The eighth deadly sin . Goldmann, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-46464-7

Translations

• Guido Ceronetti : Albergo Italia. My Italian trip (with Viktoria von Schirach ). Hanser, Munich 1992
• Giuseppe Pontiggia : From the life of ordinary men and women . Hanser, Munich 1995
• Philip K. Dick : Time out of joint (with Gerd Burger ). Haffmans, Zurich 1995
• Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti : Palazzo of Lost Dreams (with Viktoria von Schirach). Piper, Munich 1997
• Fabrizio Rondolino : Such a beautiful place . Malik, Munich 1998
• Enzo Striano : The Portuguese . Piper, Munich 2000
• Carlo Lucarelli : The cloudy summer. A case for Commissario De Luca . Piper, Munich 2000

Web links

• Literature by and about Barbara Krohn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website