Christine Lehmann

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Christine Lehmann (* 1958 in Geneva ) is a German writer with a doctorate in literature . She has published crime novels , short crime novels and detective radio plays since 1994 and runs blogs .

Life

Christine Lehmann is the daughter of journalist and non-fiction author Johannes Lehmann . After graduating from high school in Stuttgart and studying literature , she received her doctorate on the question of why the heroine of the bourgeois novel usually dies in the end. Lehmann was the editor of a literary magazine during his studies and has been editor for news and politics at Südwestrundfunk , the former Süddeutscher Rundfunk , since 1990 . She is married to the math teacher and author Bertram Maurer . She lives in Stuttgart and Wangen in the Allgäu . She was a member of the Syndikat (Association of German-language crime writers) until she left in 2014, of Attac , Greenpeace and Plan International , also a fellow in InkriT (Berlin Institute for Critical Theory) , member of Mathematik zum Anfassen eV, the Wangemer Narrenzunft Kuhschelle white-red and in the Stuttgart-Cannstatter rowing club . She was elected to the board of the Baden-Württemberg state district of the Association of German Writers (VS) in ver.di in 2009, initially as an assessor and in 2013 as chairwoman. In 2013 Lehmann started the blog "Cycling in Stuttgart", which has developed into an online newspaper for Stuttgart's cyclists, and was appointed by Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen to the Stuttgart South District Advisory Council, and since 2015 she has been a councilor in the Stuttgart City Council .

Works

Her detective novels initially had only moderate success. The first novel Kynopolis (1994) is a dog crime novel . This was followed by The Masochist (1997), Training with Death (1998), and The Kiss of the Horse (1999), which form a trilogy about the bisexual detective Lisa Nerz. These four novels are set in and around Stuttgart. In Ariadne in Hamburg, the fourth Lisa Mink crime is then published: Harte School (2005), and the end of the same year cave fear , a thriller that plays in the Swabian Alb. From 2006 Ariadne also started to reissue the first three Rowohlt crime novels in revised versions. In 2007 the crime thriller Almighty Dachshund was published , in which Lehmann's main characters, Lisa Nerz and Chief Public Prosecutor Dr. Richard Weber ends up in Weber's hometown of Balingen . In Night Crater (2008) Lisa Nerz ends up on the moon. Half of the thriller takes place on Lake Constance and the other half on a fictional moon station at Shackleton Crater (South Pole). Lehmann asked the Institute for Space Systems at the University of Stuttgart to help him with the research and construction of the moon station .

Lehmann's most successful novel was Der Bernsteinfischer (2000), a romance novel that was filmed for ARD with actor Heiner Lauterbach in the lead role. It tells the story of a photographer who hides from his past on the island of Hiddensee .

In 2003 the novel The Angel of Revenge was published . The love thief appeared in 2005 and was translated into Russian in 2006. In 2007 the romance novel On the Traces of Love was published , which takes a look at the members of a fictional boy group and their groupies and is set in Hamburg, Berlin and on the island of Rügen .

In her crime novels, Lehmann disregards common role and behavioral patterns and tries out in seemingly banal everyday situations what happens when the characters behave differently than one usually expects.

In 2007, crime radio plays were added to Lehmann's production. On behalf of Südwestrundfunk, three radio plays were created for the ARD -wide radio play series Radio-Tatort , which was reissued in 2008 : Himmelreich und Höllental (broadcast date March 2008), Mordlauf (broadcast date July 2008) and Blutoper (broadcast date May 2011).

Lehmann also publishes historical romance novels under the pseudonym "Madeleine Harstall". In 2004, The Secret of the Countesses (Droemer Knaur) was published. The novel deals with life, displacement and flight from East Prussia on the historical level and takes place on the contemporary level on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula on the Baltic Sea. This was followed in 2006 by Die Brückenbauerin (Droemer Knaur), a novel that deals with the Karnin Bridge from Anklam to Usedom , which was blown up at the end of the war . The fiction is that the bridge was built by a woman. Lehmann takes the fate of this bridge as an opportunity not only to deal with everyday life at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The novel is about the enigmatic Tunguska event and the inventions of Nikola Tesla .

Novels

Non-fiction

  • 1991 The Clarissa model: love, seduction, sexuality and death of the heroines of the novel in the 18th and 19th centuries , Metzler (dissertation), ISBN 3-476-00748-0
  • 2006 Karl Culmann and the graphic statics , together with Bertram Maurer ISBN 3-433-01815-4
  • 2010 From arsenic to target manhunt - the current manual for crime writers and the curious (Christine Lehmann and Manfred Büttner), Ariadne ISBN 978-3-88619-720-0

Movies

  • The amber fisherman ARD / degeto EAS 2005

Radio plays

  • Himmelreich and Höllental , SWR production 2008, Radio-Tatort series, EAS: March 2008 SWR, BR, SR, WDR, MDR, NDR, Radio Bremen a. a.
  • Mordlauf , SWR production 2008, Radio-Tatort series, EAS: July 2008 SWR, BR, SR, WDR, MDR, NDR, Radio Bremen and others
  • Blutoper , SWR production 2011, Radio-Tatort series, EAS: May 2011 SWR, BR, SR, WDR, MDR, NDR, Radio Bremen and others

Short thrillers in anthologies

  • 1999 Who stained a mortal sin with ink and who invented printing in truth. In: The Emperor's Dagger . Rowohlt, ISBN 3-499-43362-1
  • 2000 The sandstone bell. In: The shot in the head of the architect . avedition (Frauenkirche in Dresden), ISBN 3-929638-38-X (nominated for the Wiesbaden women's crime prize 2001)
  • 2001 The nativity play. In: It's Christmas Crime . Rowohlt. (Deadly Christmas), ISBN 3-499-26465-X
  • 2004 The woman's head murder. In: Mord isch halt a Gschäft , Ariadne (Stuttgart-Anthologie), ISBN 3-88619-884-7
  • 2005 The Need of the Witness. In: Hotel Terminus , Aufbau (A crime series about a hotel), ISBN 3-7466-2113-5
  • 2006 The Vesper board. In: Tödlichs Blechle , Ariadne (Stuttgart-Anthologie) ISBN 3-88619-894-4
  • 2006 Red Kiss. In: Only Bacchus was a witness - Murderous wine thrillers , Emons ISBN 3-89705-459-0
  • 2008 Lisa Nerz rides a bicycle. In: A Schwob, a Murder? , Ariadne (Stuttgart-Anthologie) ISBN 978-3-86754-178-7
  • 2010 Nonnenhorn brat. In: To the last drop , Emons (wine crime anthology) ISBN 978-3-89705-765-4 .
  • 2011 Nackets Luisle. In: Herrgottsbescheißerle , Ariadne (culinary Swabian thriller anthology) ISBN 978-3-86754-196-1

Web links

Cycling in Stuttgart

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Lehmann: The resistance of the male language. In: Herland. Feminist Realism in Crime Fiction. March 23, 2016, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ Reviewed by Karl-Eugen Kurrer . In: Stahlbau , vol. 75 (2006), no. 10, p. 870.
  3. ↑ "Deaths on the Moon" Reviewed by Thomas Wörtche
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madeleine Harstall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva