Cornelia Franz

Cornelia Franz (* 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German author .

biography

Franz completed a degree in German and American studies as well as an apprenticeship as a publishing bookseller. After working as a publishing editor for travel guides and art books, she has been an author since 1993.

Since then, Franz has primarily published books for children and young people , but also travel guides and novels for an adult reading audience. In 2019 she received the Hamburg Literature Prize in the children's and youth book category.

Cornelia Franz is part of the Lia Norden authors' collective (together with Sylvia Heinlein , Katja Reider and formerly Hilke Rosenboom ).

bibliography

Novels for adults

• Old stories and new lovers (Knaur 1996)
• Four truths and a death (Rowohlt 2011, with Lia Norden)
• Look into the northern lights (dtv Premium 2012)
• The Shadows of a Summer (Rowohlt 2013, with Lia Norden)

Youth novels

• Not with me! (Aare 1994)
• Track to Chicago (Aare 1997)
• Treason (dtv pocket 2000, with accompanying book for school)
• Nothing easier than love? (Aare 1995, dtv junior 2005)
• Six days, four nights (dtv pocket 2005)
• Secrets (Aare 1996, dtv junior 2007)
• Spinner in the Net (Sauerländer 2009)
• Searching for traces (action Hase and Igel 2011)
• Look into the northern lights (dtv Premium 2012)
• No matter what tomorrow is (Carlsen 2015)
• Pool party (dtv 2015)
• So strange, so beautiful (dtv 2016)

Children's books

• Pirate stories (Aare 1997)
• Max Mücke makes hocus-pocus (Aare 1999)
• Lulu from space (Aare 1998, Carlsen 2002)
• The little dragon learns to fly (Weltbild 2005)
• Paul's new friends (Weltbild 2005)
• Lotte and the school camels (Weltbild 2005)
• A goblin named Krawummsel (Weltbild 2005)
• The little magician Kasimir (Weltbild 2005)
• The children from Drachental (dtv junior 2006)
• Pirates in the classroom (dtv 2007)
• The Secret of the Red Knight (dtv 2008)
• Fantastic Friends (Carlsen 2008)
• Pirates off Sylt (dtv 2009)
• Ronni and Rasputin (Carlsen 2009)
• The land of oblivion (Rowohlt 2009)
• Luis & I, Volume 1 (Rowohlt 2011)
• Luis & I, Four Fists and a Soccer Ball, Vol. 2 (Rowohlt 2011)
• Luis & I and the most famous man in the world, vol. 3 (Rowohlt 2011)
• Save the Emerald Canyon! (Beltz & Gelberg 2012)
• Luis & Ich und der Ferienmops, Vol. 4 (Rowohlt 2013)
• The flip-flop gang (dtv 2013)
• Password Villa X (dtv 2016)
• Superman in striped socks (Esslinger 2017)
• Wenceslas and the wild robbers (dtv 2019)
• How I saved Einstein's life (Gerstenberg 2020)

Non-fiction books for children

• German history. From the beginning to the present (Parragon 2005)
• The labyrinth of knowledge (Carlsen 2007)
• German history, questions and answers (Parragon 2008)

picture books

• Kunterbunt family: The move (Xenos 1999)
• Kunterbunt family: The chicken is gone! (Xenos 1999)
• Kunterbunt family: The big vertigo egg (Xenos 2001)
• Paula says no! (Ellermann 2004)

Audio books

• Pirates in the classroom (basic sound, silver fish)
• The Red Knight's Secret (Argon)
• Pirates off Sylt (Argon)

travel Guide

• Paris (Artemis and Winkler 1995)
• Black Forest (Merian 1997)
• HB-Bildatlas Rügen, Usedom, Hiddensee
• HB-Bildatlas Bornholm
• HB-Bildatlas Paris
• HB-Bildatlas Hamburg

Web links

• Literature by and about Cornelia Franz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Cornelia Franz
• Interview with Cornelia Franz