Christine Grän
Christine Grän (born April 18, 1952 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer .
Life
Grän studied German and English in her hometown . After completing her studies, she worked as an editor and lived in Africa for five years until she finally settled in Bonn as a freelance journalist and author. Grän gained fame above all as a crime writer with her book series Anna Marx , based on the motifs of which the TV series At Your Own Risk was filmed for ARD with Thekla Carola Wied in the lead role. There were lawsuits over the copyrights of the greatly altered detective that Grän ultimately lost. For Marx is deadIn 1994 she honored the German “Raymond Chandler Society” with the Marlowe in the category Best Detective Novel - National.
Works (selection)
- Fiction
- Truth's little sister. Novel . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-596-10866-7 .
- Queen stabs Jack. Novel . Knaus, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-8135-0042-X .
- The impostor. Novel . Knaus, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-8135-0125-6 .
- Whore child . 2nd edition Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-45385-2 .
- Villa Freud . Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-45722-X .
- Heroes dying. Novel . Eichborn, Frankfurt / M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-6209-5 ( The Other Library ; 280).
- Marx is dead . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-43081-9 .
- Fire please! A new case for Anna Marx . Goldmann, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-46577-4 .
- Everyone's greed , Krimi, Nautilus, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89401-589-3
- Americans don't shoot golfers: 18 stories , Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86913-413-0
- Sternstrasse 24:24 Christmas stories from the ground floor to the roof , Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86913-574-8
- Inspector Martin Glück, together with Hannelore Mezei
- Glück am Wörthersee , detective novel, ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86913-631-8
- Glück in Wien , detective novel, ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86913-883-1
- Glück in der Steiermark , detective novel, ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86913-997-5
- Glück in Salzburg , Martin Glücks fourth case, ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7472-0113-8
- Non-fiction
- Hunger. A report . Dietz Verlag, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-8012-3048-1 (Dietz-Taschenbuch; 48).
- Food aid as development aid? Partnership projects . Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, Bonn 1986.
- Philippines. Partnership projects . Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, Bonn 1986.
- Cooperation with developing countries. This is what practice looks like . 2nd edition BMZ, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-923343-02-7 .
Radio plays
- 2013: with Eva Karnofsky : Quitos Töchter - Director: Jörg Schlüter (radio play - WDR )
Web links
- Literature by and about Christine Grän in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christine Grän in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- official homepage
- Biography on www.krimilexikon.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ KRIMIS: Death of a steam roller in: Der Spiegel 44/2004 of October 25, 2004
- ↑ This side of Africa ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in: Kleine Zeitung from February 27, 2009
- ↑ AUTHORS: The family of beautiful bodies in Der Spiegel 9/2001 from February 24, 2001
- ^ The beautiful death in Vienna: Christine Grän's novel «Heldensterben» in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of July 17, 2008
- ^ To die more beautifully in Vienna in: Kölnische Rundschau from April 6, 2008
- ↑ Best-selling author: "I owe that to my adventure gene". In: Wiener Zeitung . June 23, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grän, Christine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian crime writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |