Daniela Larcher

Daniela Larcher | Alex Beer

Daniela Larcher (born April 8, 1977 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian writer who also publishes under the pseudonym Alex Beer .

Life

Daniela Larcher grew up in Lustenau . In 1996 she graduated from the Commercial Academy Lustenau , then studied process and project management at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences . After working for two years in the advertising industry, she began studying archeology at the University of Vienna in 2002 . In 2006 she moved to New York where she worked in publishing for a year.

Since July 2007 she has been living in Vienna again.

Works

Detective novels

Otto Morell series (as Daniela Larcher)

• The number . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-18241-1 .
• To the grave . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-18286-2 .
• New moon . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19222-9 .
• Expensive silence . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-19699-9 .

August Emmerich Series (as Alex Beer)

• The second rider . Random House, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8090-2675-4 .
• The red woman . Random House, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8090-2676-1 .
• The dark messenger . Random House, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8090-2703-4 .
• The black ribbon. Random House, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8090-2720-1

Isaak Rubinstein series (as Alex Beer)

• Among wolves. Random House, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8090-2711-9 .
• Among wolves - the hidden enemy . Random House, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8090-2736-2

Short thrillers in anthologies

• First 1, Then 2, Then 3, Then 4… Fischer Scherz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-502-11065-1 .
• It's going to be a festival . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18637-2 .
• The Hofburg crime scene . Falter Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-85439-569-0 .
• Executioner's meal. Murder on Hellweg IX. Grafit, 2018, ISBN 978-3-89425-585-5 .

Honourings and prices

• Shortlist Leo Perutz Prize 2015
• Leo Perutz Prize 2017
• Nomination for the Victor Crime Award 2018
• Nomination Fine Crime Award 2019
• Shortlist Friedrich Glauser Prize 2019
• Literary trip to China at the invitation of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the China Writers Association
• Shortlist Leo Perutz Prize 2019 for The Dark Messenger
• Mimi 2020 (book trade's crime prize) for Der dunkle Bote
• Shortlist Crime Cologne Award 2019 for The Dark Messenger
• Austrian Crime Award 2019
• Leo Perutz Prize 2019 for The Dark Messenger
• Official selection "Books at Berlinale" 2020 for Unter Wölfen
• Nomination Crime Cologne Award 2020 for Unter Wölfen

Web links

Commons : Daniela Larcher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence of Daniela Larcher alias "Alex Beer"
• Alex Beer on the Random House website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the HAK Lustenau on the occasion of a reading on April 20, 2009. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 29, 2013 ; Retrieved December 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ orf.at: Leo Perutz Prize for crime literature goes to Alex Beer . Article dated September 13, 2017, accessed September 14, 2017.
3. ↑ Viktor Crime Award 2018: Jury nominates 10 authors for the longlist. (No longer available online.) Mord am Hellweg, archived from the original on October 13, 2018 ; accessed on November 8, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Leo Perutz Prize for Crime Literature 2019: Five times high voltage. Retrieved July 2, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Jury announces the shortlist of the Crime Cologne Award 2019. Crime Cologne e. V., accessed on September 23, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Austrian Crime Award 2019 goes to Alex Beer. ORF , October 15, 2019, accessed on the same day.
7. ↑ Alex Beer wins the Leo Perutz Prize for Viennese crime literature 2019 with “Der dunkle Bote” . In: buecher.at. November 5, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 .