Christian Linker

Christian Linker (2018)

Christian Linker (born February 12, 1975 in Leverkusen ) is a German author for young people. His first children's book, Ritter für eine Nacht , was published in 1999. His debut novel RaumZeit was nominated in 2003 for the German Youth Literature Prize. For his novel Blitzlichtgewitter he received the Hansjörg Martin Prize in 2009 (children's and youth crime prize from the authors' association Das Syndikat ). Also in 2009 the stage version of RaumZeit (together with Stefan Filipiak ) was awarded the authors' prize of the Karlsruhe Sandkorn Theater and premiered there in 2010. In 2018 he received the Golden Leslie award for young people's books for his novel Der Schuss .

Under the pseudonym Magnus Mahlmann, he also writes a crime series about the former prison pastor Laurenz Broich.

Christian Left studied in Bonn theology . He worked as a freelance PR editor and as an educational consultant in extracurricular youth education. For several years, Linker worked in Cologne as the full-time diocesan chairman of the Federation of German Catholic Youth . Today he lives with his family in Leverkusen.

Works

• Knight for one night . Children's book. Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3491374081
• The hunt for the fairies . Children's book. Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 978-3-491-37426-3
• Space time . Novel. dtv , Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-423-78217-3
• The hero project . Novel. dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-423-78207-4
• Double poker . Novel. dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-78214-2
• Flashlight storm . Novel. dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-78224-1
• Absolutely at the limit . Novel. dtv, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-78245-6
• City of Wolves . Children's book. dtv, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-76114-7
• Jihad calling . Novel. dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-74015-9
• The shot . Novel. dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-74027-2
• What the wicked are planning: The first case for Laurenz Broich . under the pseudonym Magnus Mahlmann. Novel. JP Bachem, Cologne, 2018, ISBN 978-3-761-63271-0
• And then everyone knows what you've done . Novel. dtv, Munich 2019 ISBN 978-3-423-74042-5
• And they should take some of his blood: A case for Laurenz Broich . under the pseudonym Magnus Mahlmann. Novel. JP Bachem, Cologne 2019. ISBN 978-3761633397
• Kevin and the wormhole on the 13th floor. Children's book. Thienemann, Stuttgart 2020. ISBN 978-3522185271
• INFLUENCE - Error in the system. Thriller. bold, Munich 2020. ISBN 978-3423230117

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Linker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Christian Linker