Christina Bacher

Christina Bacher (born January 3, 1973 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German author and journalist for young people . She has been editor-in-chief of Germany's oldest street newspaper (“Draussenseiter”) since 2006 and - together with the historian Martin Stankowski - initiator of the “Citizens 'and Citizens' City Tours” in Cologne.

Life

Christina Bacher studied German and European Ethnology in Marburg , Bonn and Montpellier . After completing her studies, she worked as an editor, PR consultant and press spokesperson for publishers before she devoted herself increasingly to writing youth crime stories and novels. Together with the journalist and author Ulrich Noller, she developed the youth crime series “Bolle und die Bolzplatzbande” for Hessischer Rundfunk , which was later published as a book series. For the conception and editorial management of the magazine NIRI-NEWS for children with kidney disease and their family on behalf of Nephrokids eV, she was awarded the Innovation Prize for Disability Policy of the City of Cologne in 2009.

From August 2012 to May 2014, Bacher and the author Sabine Schiffner worked as part of a scholarship for one year in the Scriptorium at the AntoniterCityKirche in downtown Cologne . In September 2013 she received a scholarship from "Tatort Töwerland" on Juist. In 2013 and 2019, she was also a juror for the Hans-Jörg-Martin Prize / Glauser Prize, which is awarded by the SYNDIKAT authors' association for the best children's and young adult thriller. In July 2020 she was awarded the special fund of the Kunststiftung NRW for her artistic idea "Limited - Unlimited - Excluded. Giving the poorest of the poor a voice".

Christina Bacher lives and works in Cologne . She is married and has two kids.

Works

Books

• Amuse-Gueule , KSB-Media, Gerlingen 2014, ISBN 3945195276
• 111 places for children in Cologne that you have to see , Emons, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0332-2
• Hinkels Mord , KBV, 2020, Hillesheim 2020, ISBN 978-3-95441-522-9

Bolle and the soccer field gang

• Volume 1: Die Fahrradleiche , Bloomsbury Children's & Youth Books, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-5250-6
• Volume 2: The Elephant Coup , Bloomsbury Children's & Young Adult Books, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-5251-3
• Volume 3: The Arson attack , Bloomsbury Children's & Youth Books, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-5325-1
• Volume 4: Der Rufmord , Bloomsbury Children's & Youth Books, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-5324-4
• Volume 5: Die Castingfalle , Bloomsbury Children's & Youth Books, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-5460-9
• Volume 6: Shark Alert! , Emons, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-524-0
• Volume 7: The Roman grave , Emons, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7408-0039-0

Short stories

• The last Rabensteiner In: Determine without limits, Solo Gemeiner No. 5, 23 mystery crime novels, Messkirch 2013, ISBN 978-3-8392-1452-7
• Engel im Schnee In: Tödliche Türchen: 24 Christmas thrillers from Hessen, Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim am Rhein 2014, ISBN 3942291819
• Kirschbaumopfer In: Deadly mulled wine: 21 Christmas thrillers from the Palatinate, Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim am Rhein 2014, ISBN 3942291800
• Finally peace in: Horus Delicti, Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-95428-212-8
• My own flesh and blood In: The scariest places in Cologne, Gmeiner 2019, ISBN 978-3-8392-2454-0
• With the blessing from above In: Mords-Töwerland, Krimis von Juist, Gmeiner 2020, ISBN 978-3-8392-2610-0
• So big the fear In: Camping is the murderer's pleasure, KBV, 2020, ISBN 978-3-95441-519-9

Crime calendar

• Jazz in Crime , Pocket Calendar 2008, Münster / Westf., Daedalus 2007, ISBN 978-3-89126-208-5
• Tatort Turkey , pocket calendar 2009, Münster / Westf., Daedalus 2008, ISBN 978-3-89126-209-2

Co-editor of the Crime Yearbook

• Crime Yearbook 2007, NordPark-Verlag
• Crime Yearbook 2008, NordPark-Verlag
• Crime Yearbook 2009, Pendragon-Verlag

Editor

• Cologne despite (t) poverty: Best from the street magazine DRAUSSENSEITER , Münster / Westf., Daedalus 2014, ISBN 3891262353
• SOKO Marburg-Biedenkopf , KBV, Hillesheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-95441-293-8
• The double city map - stories about poverty and wealth. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-96311-258-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Christina Bacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Outsiders: Contact.
2. ^ Homepage City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations , press release of August 8, 2012
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )