Beate Maxian

Beate Maxian (2019)

Beate Maxian (born August 22, 1967 in Munich ) is an Austrian author , journalist and presenter . She has lived in Vöcklabruck since 1995 .

Life

She first spent her youth in Bavaria and the Arab world, and later in Vöcklabruck and Vienna . She was best known for her detective novels, but also for the publication of film documentaries. She has been working in the television, print media and events sector since 1990, including for ORF productions.

Sir Roger Moore traveled to the Austrian Parliament to present her fairy tale book for children and adults, published in autumn 2007 - 2010 and even more nights , a children's book for UNICEF . Also in autumn 2007 the thriller Tödliche SMS , set in Vienna, was published, in 2011 the first part of her series with the superstitious journalist Sarah Pauli.

She is a member of the IG Authors Authors Austria, the syndicate of the authors' group of German-language crime literature and the Austrian crime authors. She was a member of the jury for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2008. Maxian is the initiator and organizer of the first Austrian crime festival “Krimi Literatur Festival at”, founded in July 2007.

Beate Maxian is married to the musician Jeff and has two children.

Awards

• 2011 Trio Mortale grant from the Wiesbaden literature house.
• 2013 with death behind St. Stephen's Cathedral nominated for the Leo Perutz Prize .
• 2016 nominated for the Leo Perutz Prize with Murder in Schönbrunn .

Publications

Novels

• 2017 The woman in the light blue dress , Heyne Verlag, Munich
• 2018 The secret of the last shepherdess
• 2019 The Tears of Trieste

Detective novels

• 2005 Dead smile , Resistance Verlag, Linz-Vienna
• 2006 Dead people don't kill , Resistance Verlag, Linz-Vienna
• 2007 Tödliche SMS, Wien-live Edition, Echomedia Verlag, Vienna
• 2008 Death with a view of the lake , Prolibris Verlag, Kassel
• 2010 Death of the Knecht , Prolibris Verlag, Kassel

The Sarah Pauli series

• 2011 Deadly Rendezvous , Goldmann Verlag, Munich
• 2012 Die Tote vom Naschmarkt , Goldmann Verlag, Munich
• 2013 Death behind St. Stephen's Cathedral , Goldmann Verlag, Munich
• 2014 The dead man from the central cemetery , Goldmann Verlag, Munich
• 2015 Death in the Hofburg , Goldmann Verlag, Munich
• 2016 Murder in Schönbrunn , Goldmann Verlag, Munich
• 2017 The Prater Murders , Goldmann Verlag, Munich
• 2018 Death in the Imperial Crypt , Goldmann Verlag, Munich
• 2019 Murder in the Hotel Sacher , Goldmann Verlag, Munich
• 2020 The dead man in the Fiaker , Goldmann Verlag, Munich

Photo reading book

• 2004 About Mondsee, Attersee, Vöckla and Hausruck , Trauner Verlag, Linz
• 2006 About coal and life in Hausruck , Trauner Verlag, Linz

Children's book

• 2007 2010 and more nights , Echomedia Verlag, Vienna (book of fairy tales for UNICEF)

Crime stories

• 2009 Three characters in: Dangerous neighbors, Ed. Paul Ott, Gmeiner Verlag, Meßkirch
• 2009 Liachtbratlmontag In: Tatort Salzkammergut, ed. Angela Eßer / Beate Maxian, KBV Verlag, Hillesheim
• 2010 When wine and my soul In: Mixed sentence, Ed. Sabina Naber, Echo Verlag, Vienna
• 2011 Victim search In: Mörderischer Chiemgau, Ed. Butkus / Schlennstedt, Pendragon Verlag, Bielefeld
• 2011 Gartenidylle In: The gardener is always the gardener, Ed. Johannes Höpfl, WorxBoox Verlag, Linz
• 2012 The prevented gourmet In: Mords-Zillertal, Ed. J. Maxian / E. Weidinger, Gmeiner, Messkirch
• 2012 Tödliche Idylle In: Tatort Garten, Ed. Thomas Kastura, Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg
• 2012 stadium melody In. Tatort Prater, Edith Kneifl, Falter, Vienna
• 2012 The deadly lives In: Mordsappetit, Ed. Angela Eßer, Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg
• 2012 Christmas confession In: Mords-Bescherung, Ed. J. Maxian / E. Weidinger, Emons, Cologne
• 2013 Dirndl War In: Mord in Oberösterreich, Ed. Günter Linecker, Kehrwasser, Linz
• 2013 Diamantenzug In: Faster than fear, Ed. Erich Weidinger, Obelisk, Innsbruck
• 2014 Bermuda Triangle In: Not only buried the dog ..., Ed. Angela Eßer, Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg
• 2014 death leap In: Slaying hydropower, eds J. Maxian / E.. Weidinger, Gmeiner, Messkirch
• 2015 "A Fremde unterm Steffl" in: Mördchen Törtchen, Ed. Petra Busch
• 2015 "Mörderjagd" In: Who is Murdering in Styria ?, Ed. Claudia Rossbacher
• 2016 "Mörderischer Attersee " in: Mords-Salzkammergut, Ed. J.Maxian / E. Weidinger, Gmeiner
• 2016 "The Library" in: Soko Marburg Biedenkopf, Ed. Christina Bacher, KBV
• 2016 "Yellow Roses" in: Tatort Hofburg, Edith Kneifl, Falter
• 2017 Annafest in: Soko Graz-Steiermark, Ed. Claudia Rossbacher, Gmeiner

Screenplays and film publications

• 1200 years of Regau (documentary film)
• 375 years of the city of Schwanenstadt (opening, closing event and film documentation)
• Wanderstab, Wunderstab you are my life (film about Franz Stelzhamer - idea, book, design)
• Festival Wiesen 2004, editing of the film documentation

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kronen Zeitung from June 20, 2009: Murder is her hobby