Claudia Rath (writer)

Claudia Rath (* 1964 in Wuppertal ) is a German writer . She published a number of novels as well as short stories and cabaret texts in German .

Rath studied social work and worked in this profession for several years. Later she began to study philosophy , psychology and sociology , but from 1997 she devoted herself to her work as a writer. At first she lived with her companion on the edge of the Ruhr area and later moved to East Friesland .

Her first novel, The Midland Prophecy , was published in 2000. It is the first of the six fantasy novels in their Midland saga , whose medieval -looking, magical world is populated exclusively by women alongside animals, mythical creatures and the monstrous , threatening Worraks and whose human cosmos does not have a fixed, two-part gender order . Her book A Secret Story , published in 2003, is a psychological relationship novel that takes up the taboo subject of violence in lesbian relationships. Her last novel Spur zum Fjord , published in 2007 and so far , in which the lesbian love of the main characters also plays a role, is about self-proclaimed gurus and the business of human longings and has detective features.

Works

• Track to the fjord. Krug & Schadenberg , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-930041-56-5 .
• Trip to Yandrala. Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85286-122-5 .
• A secret story. Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85286-115-2 .
• The world tree. Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85286-099-7 .
• Midlands Mummery. Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85286-090-3 .
• The child of the stars and the snakes. Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85286-084-9 .
• The shadow walker. Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85286-081-4 .
• The Midland Prophecy. Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85286-077-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Claudia Rath in the catalog of the German National Library
• Claudia Rath at the publishing house Krug & Schadenberg
• Claudia Rath at Milenaverlag
• Portrait of Claudia Rath at Literra
• Interview with Claudia Rath by Mirjam Müntefering in Lespress , May 2000

Individual evidence

1. ^ Literra.info: Portrait: Claudia Rath. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} krugschadenberg.de: Authors - Claudia Rath. Retrieved October 5, 2012. ( Memento of August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Cf. L-Mag : Please take a look. Violence in lesbian and trans relationships. Issue July / August 2011, p. 8. or lesbenberatung-berlin.de: Violence in relationships. Retrieved October 5, 2012. ( Memento June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )