Christel Scheja

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Christel Scheja (born April 19, 1965 in Solingen ) is a German writer . Occasionally she also publishes under her stage name Kris .

Life

She studied computer science and mathematics in Paderborn before retraining as a data processing clerk. Since 1997 she has been living and working in Solingen again.

Since 1978 Christel Scheja has not only been fascinated by the fantastic genres of fantasy , science fiction and horror , but has also worked creatively with them. In the course of time many novels, novellas and short stories as well as poems, essays and articles emerged, not least illustrations and pictures with fantastic motifs. A large part of it initially appeared in fanzines and semi-professional magazines such as Fantasia (EDFC), Follow (EDFC, Fantasy-Club), Taurus , Luna , Mephisto , Andromeda-Nachrichten (SFCD eV) and Äon Intern , but later also with various publishers.

With the Legendensänger Edition ( ISSN  0944-5714 ), Christel Scheja published her own fan series from 1989 to 2007, of which well over 150 issues have appeared. Some issues are exclusively dedicated to the Shared World Talastan , which she founded. From 2005 to 2010, together with Irene Salzmann, she published the online information magazine Rattus Libri , which mainly contains reviews of fantastic literature.

Between 1985 and 1995 Christel Scheja also made a significant contribution to the creation and description of the fantasy world Myra .

In 1995 and 1998 her two novels on the world of the black eye appeared in the Aventuria series . Several short stories in other publications on this role-playing world followed. She is also a co-author of the DSA regional description Reich des Horas , published in 2010 .

Unlike writing, she sees drawing primarily as relaxation, although her graphics are attracting a lot of attention in both role-playing magazines and on the Internet. From 2006 to 2014, her drawings appeared regularly in Elfenschrift magazine . She also created the covers for Andrea Tillmann 's novel Erik in the Land of Dragons and Tillmann's short story collections The Third Bangle and Dragon Fire .

Works

Novels

Short stories (selection)

  • "The Thieves of Rashdul" in "The Equal Gods ", ed. by Ulrich Kiesow , Heyne Verlag, 1995
  • "The essence of love" in "Paths to the Fantastic", ed. by Jörg Martin Munsonius , EDFC Passau, 1996
  • "Rat" in "Von Monsters und Menschen", Heyne Verlag, 1998
  • "The imperfect dancer" in "Gassengeschichten", Heyne Verlag, 2000
  • "Demon Seed" , "A Confusing Night" and "Gone" in "From the Villa Diodati", dead soft Verlag, 2000
  • "The secrets of gray mice" and "The song of love and liberation" in "Love and other Demons", dead soft Verlag, 2001
  • "Straße zur Sonne" and "Nach Mitternacht" in "la methode", dead soft Verlag, 2003
  • "The song of the crow" in "Wellensang", Schreiblust-Verlag Andreas Schröter, 2004
  • "The Cursed of Tainsborough Manor" in "Wolfgang Hohlbein's Shadow Realm 1: The Eternal Dark Dream", Blitz-Verlag, 2005
  • "Branded market!" and "The she-wolf of Dunwold" in "The Gate to Ta-Meket", publisher of fantasy and science fiction games, 2005
  • "Confusing friendship" in "Herrenreiter 2005", dead soft Verlag, 2005
  • "Hell Job" in "Liberate Me", Eloy Edictions, 2006
  • "The city of dreams" in "Die Jenseitsapotheke", EDFC eV, 2006
  • "The right choice" in "Weltenweber", Lerato-Verlag, 2006
  • "A dream of dark wings" in "Herrenreiter 2006", dead soft verlag, 2006
  • "The Power of the High Forest" in "Im Bann des Nachtwaldes", Lerato-Verlag, 2007
  • "The secret of Ariadne" in "Rescue cruiser Ikarus" special volume 3: "Negative population growth", Atlantis-Verlag, 2008
  • "Nayan die Goldene" , in "Dragons! Dragons! Nasty essences from twenty-three genres", edited by Frank G. Gerigk and Petra Hartmann , Blitz Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-89840-339-9
  • "What remains hidden for a long time ..." In: "With blade and pen". Edited by Petra Hartmann and Andrea Tillmanns . Homburg / Saar: UlrichBurger-Verlag, 2013. pp. 89–131. ISBN 978-3-943378-07-8
  • "Poster campaign" . In: "Play me the song of undeath". Edited by Charlotte Engmann . Zweibrücken: Hary-Production, 2013. pp. 178–180. ISSN  1861-6054
  • "Book Magic" . In: Elfenschrift 41, March 2014. pp. 24–27.
  • "A Queen's Way" . In: "Blood Red Steel". Edited by Andre Skora, Ingo Schulze and Michael Quay. Prometheus-Verlag, 2016.
  • "The Midnight Star" . In: "The last tower before no man's land". Edited by Michael Schmidt and fantasyguide.de. Murnau am Staffelsee: Verlag p. machinery, 2017. ISBN 978-3957651044
  • The secret of the sword . In: It's all a question of style . Edited by Michael Schmidt and fantasyguide.de, 2020 ISBN 979-8633291742 .

Article (selection)

  • "Amazons and Matriarchy - Part 1" in "Magic Time", Issue 21, 1990
  • "Amazons and Matriarchy - Part 2" in "Magic Time", Issue 23, 1990
  • "Creatures of the night and their origins in popular belief" and "Wolfsgedanken" as well as "Resting from the dead who have not fallen apart" in "Wolfgang Hohlbein's Shadow Realm 1: The Eternal Dark Dream", Blitz-Verlag, 2005
  • "More than just nostalgia?" Epilogue to: Mark Brandis : "Pilgrim 2000" , Wurdack-Verlag, 2010.
  • "Das Einhorn" in: Elfenschrift 29, March 2011.

literature

Ulrike Reineke: Christel Scheja & the legendary singers . In: Elfenschrift 41, March 2014. pp. 12–15. ISSN  1613-3293

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personal data
SURNAME Scheja, Christel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kris (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fantasy author and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen