Chris Stoffels

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Chris Stoffels (born September 11, 1951 in Cologne ) is a German writer and poet .

Career

After graduating from high school at a Catholic convent school, Chris Stoffels studied law in Freiburg, Münster and Cologne. He then turned to journalism and worked for the Kölner Stadtanzeiger until 1981 . He then worked for the Rheinische Post for 30 years as an editor in regional reporting.

Stoffels began to write poems as early as the 1970s. Since 2012 around a dozen novels with different conceptual orientations have been published under his name; His works include thrillers and romance novels as well as psychodramas and sometimes autobiographical family stories . A central theme at Stoffels are conflicts between the war and post-war generations. What his stories have in common is the relationship to the Rhineland , Stoffels' homeland, or to the Wesermarsch , where he has been traveling for decades to be inspired by the landscape around the Butjadingen peninsula .

plant

  • Hamster Cheeks , 2013
  • Knife from Bullerbü , 2014
  • Rhubarb leaves , 2014
  • Canon Tears , 2015
  • Lobster Life , 2015
  • Time clot , 2015
  • The Nuke , 2017
  • Broken Souls , 2017
  • The Men's Game , 2017
  • Building bridges , 2017
  • Knives from Bullerbü: The Borderliners
  • Jesallah: The fate of a refugee base from Syria to a small town in the Rhineland

literature

  • "The Nuke" by Chrís Stoffels , in Dormagazin - Das Stadt-Magazin , November 2017 issue, p. 27

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personal data
SURNAME Stoffels, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne