Brigitte Glaser

Brigitte Glaser 2014

Brigitte Glaser (born March 18, 1955 in Offenburg ) is a German writer . She mainly writes crime novels and books for young people .

Life

Brigitte Glaser, who grew up in a small town in the Black Forest , studied education at the University of Freiburg . Today she lives in Cologne and works as a media educator in adult education.

She made her writing debut in 1996 as a co-author of Kölsch for a corpse . From 2001 to 2008 she was the author of the district crime thriller Tatort Veedel in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .

In her novels about the gourmet cook Katharina Schweitzer, published by Emons Verlag , as well as in some of her short stories, culinary themes accompany the crime plot. After a series of successful regional and culinary crime and youth novels, the 1950s novel Bühlerhöhe was published in 2016 , which combines a fictional plot with historical political backgrounds. The book was on the Spiegel bestseller list for weeks after it was published .

Brigitte Glaser is a member of the Murderous Sisters , the Syndicate and the Cologne-Düsseldorf crime committee .

Works

Detective novels

• Kölsch for a corpse. Lüttgau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-929721-02-3 (together with Rainer Daub).
• Funeral feast. Emons, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89705-292-X (Katharina Schweizer's 1st case).
• Cherry tote. Emons, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-347-0 (Katharina Schweizer's 2nd case).
• Murder Board. Emons, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89705-400-0 (Katharina Schweizer's 3rd case).
• Ice bomb. Emons, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89705-514-8 (Katharina Schweizer's 4th case).
• Bee sting. Emons, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89705-681-7 (Katharina Schweizer's 5th case).
• Heaven and Ääd. Emons, Cologne, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89705-933-7 (Katharina Schweizer's 6th case).
• Bibbeleskäs. Emons, Cologne, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95451-143-3 (Katharina Schweizer's 7th case).
• Bühlerhöhe. List, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-471-35126-0 ; Audiobook read by Anne Moll , ISBN 978-3-95713-047-1 .

Novels

• Rhine view. List, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-471-35180-2 .

Youth books

• Blank gunshots. Sauerländer, Mannheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-7941-7084-5 .
• Foreign cargo. Sauerländer, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-7941-7085-2 .
• 8 days in June. Boje, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-414-82363-2 .
• Crow summer. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-8466-0008-5 .
• Where's Alma. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8466-0033-7 .

Short stories

• Veedel crime scene. 33 cases by Orlando and List. Emons, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89705-487-5 .
• Bitter and angry. Culinary short thrillers. Emons, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-95451-069-6 .

Awards

• 2011: Crime scholarship from the city of Wiesbaden
• 2012: Nomination of Foreign Freight for the Hans-Jörg-Martin-Prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Brigitte Glaser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Brigitte Glaser at perlentaucher.de
• Official website of Brigitte Glaser