Christa-Maria Zimmermann

Christa-Maria Zimmermann (* 1943 in Wels , Upper Austria ) is an author who became known for crime novels . Today she writes historical books for children and young people .

Life

Christa-Maria Zimmermann was born in Wels, Upper Austria. Her favorite playground in childhood was the Kaiserswerther castle ruins (near Düsseldorf ). Even then she was interested in history , which she later studied - with art history as a major. During her school days she wrote small articles for a Düsseldorf newspaper and worked there during the semester break, initially as a volunteer and finally as an editor . She had four children, three girls and a boy. So she gave up her job as an editor, but not writing: from 1977 onwards, almost 20 books were written.

Awards

On November 18, 2005, Christa-Maria Zimmermann received the Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize for youth literature for her novel Hundert Tage bis Lhasa .

Works

• Walk with me through Düsseldorf, 1977
• Marktstrasse, 1981
• The Bought Bride, 1995
• The ghost in the castle ruins, 1997
• And she pretended to be asleep, 1998
• The night the Titanic sank, 1998
• Little Brothers Fine, 2000
• The last ride of the Hindenburg, 2000
• Caught in pack ice, 2000
• The Pharaoh's amulet , 2001
• The Girl from the Red River , 2003
• The road between the worlds , 2003
• A hundred days to Lhasa , 2004
• Hexentanz (book) , 2005
• The gold of Columbus , 2006
• The robbery of the king on the Rhine , 2010

Adaptations

Radio plays

• Christa-Maria Zimmermann: Trapped in pack ice. Speaker: Uwe Friedrichsen , Dietmar Mues , Christian Redl , Fritz Fenne , Der Hörverlag , 2005, ISBN 3-89940-595-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christa-Maria Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christa-Maria Zimmermann at Random House