Charlotte Link

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Charlotte Link (2018)

Charlotte Link (born October 5, 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer . She is one of the most commercially successful German-speaking authors today.

Life

Charlotte Link was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1963 as the daughter of the author Almuth Link . She passed her A -levels at the Christian Wirth School in Usingen . Less of family tradition - her father was a judge at the Court of Appeal - rather because they wanted to take action against injustice done to animals, she studied six semesters long Jura at the University of Frankfurt . In 1986 she moved to Munich to study history and literary studies . She began writing her first work Die Schöne Helena at the age of 16 and published it at the age of 19.

She became known for both social novels and psychological suspense novels in the English storytelling tradition. The titles Sturmzeit , Wilde Lupinen and Die Hour der Erben are a trilogy that was filmed for television in the five-part series Sturmzeit , along with other works by ZDF . The novel Am Ende des Schweigens was nominated for the German Book Prize in the fiction category in 2004 , and her novel Die Rosenzüchterin , published in 2000, topped the Spiegel bestseller list for several weeks. The total circulation of her novels in Germany alone is over 28 million (as of October 2018).

In 2014 her book was published about the last years of her sister Franziska, who was suffering from cancer and who accompanied her during her illness. Charlotte Link currently lives with her partner in Wiesbaden . As an active animal rights activist, she is committed to PETA and to street dogs in Turkey and Spain . She also gives language courses for refugees.

Awards

In 2007 Charlotte Link received the Golden Pen for her literary work .

Works

Novels :

Storm time trilogy:

  • Storm time , 1989
  • Wild lupins , 1992
  • The hour of the heirs , 1994

Autobiographical :

Youth book series Reiterhof Eulenburg:

  • The Mysterious Spy , 1990 / reissued as: Midnight Picnic , 2010
  • The diamonds of beautiful Johanna , 1990 / reissued as: Diamond robbery , 2010
  • In der Fall der Tiermafia , 1990 / reissued as: Dangerous Summer , 2010
  • Snow out of the blue , 1991 / reissued as: Mondscheingeflüster , 2010

Audio books

literature

  • Olaf Kutzmutz (Ed.): Bestseller. The example of Charlotte Link. Federal Academy for Cultural Education, Wolfenbüttel 2010, ISBN 978-3-929622-46-1 .

Film adaptations

title Year of production First broadcast Channel annotation
01 The sin of the angels 1999 June 5, 1999 ZDF 1. Episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
02 Storm time - part 1 1999 December 13, 1999 ZDF Miniseries in 5 parts
03 Storm time - part 2 1999 December 15, 1999 ZDF Miniseries in 5 parts
04th Storm time - part 3 1999 December 17, 1999 ZDF Miniseries in 5 parts
05 Storm time - part 4 1999 December 19, 1999 ZDF Miniseries in 5 parts
06th Storm time - part 5 1999 December 20, 1999 ZDF Miniseries in 5 parts
07th The house of the sisters 2001 March 10, 2002 ZDF 2nd episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
08th The admirer 2001 March 17, 2002 ZDF 3rd episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
09 My son's father 2003 April 4, 2004 ZDF 4th episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
10 The telltale necklace 2004 April 18, 2004 ZDF 5th episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
11 The rose breeder - part 1 2003 November 7, 2004 ZDF 6. Episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
12 The rose breeder - part 2 2003 November 8, 2004 ZDF 7th episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
13 The deception 2005 April 16, 2006 ZDF 8. Episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
14th At the end of the silence 2006 December 26, 2006 ZDF 9th episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
15th The strange guest 2006 April 8, 2007 ZDF 10. Episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
16 The Echo of Guilt - Part 1 2008 April 12, 2009 ZDF TV film in 2 parts
17th The Echoes of Guilt - Part 2 2008 April 13, 2009 ZDF TV film in 2 parts
18th The other child - part 1 2012 January 2, 2013 ARD TV film in 2 parts
19th The other child - part 2 2012 January 3, 2013 ARD TV film in 2 parts
20th The Observer 2015 5th December 2015 ARD 11th episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
21st The last trace 2016 5th January 2017 ARD 12th episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
22nd The betrayed 2017 4th January 2018 ARD 13. Episode of
the Charlotte Link TV series
23 in the Valley of the Fox 2019 January 2, 2020 ARD 14th episode of the Charlotte Link TV series
24 The decision 2019 January 9, 2020 ARD 15th episode of the Charlotte Link TV series

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Link  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Charlotte Link  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Charlotte Link: "The Search". Recording of the reading in Sulingen. In: radiobremen.de. October 22, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Renate Wolff: A child writes itself grown up ( series: The queens of romance ). In: Bunte ,? / 1987, pp. 96-101.
  3. ↑ Interview ( memento of October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) with Krimi Forum, October 2006
  4. ↑ Just be glad that you can breathe . Interview with Kerstin Rottman; Die Welt , September 11, 2014 (accessed September 28, 2014)
  5. ↑ What does the death of your sister mean for your writing? Charlotte Link in conversation with Katrin Heise; Deutschlandradio Kultur , contribution from September 3, 2014 (accessed on September 28, 2014)
  6. ^ Statement in the show Markus Lanz in October 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Link, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main