Elisabeth Herrmann (writer, 1959)

Elisabeth Herrmann (* 1959 in Marburg an der Lahn) is a German writer, screenplay and radio play author with a focus on detective novels .

Elisabeth Herrmann at the Leipzig Book Fair 2013

Elisabeth Herrmann on a reading tour 2011

Life

Elisabeth Herrmann made after training as Bauzeichnerin a high school on the second chance at the Frankfurt night school . She then worked as a radio and television journalist and was a lecturer at Mittweida University . After several documentaries for the SFB / RBB, her detective novel Das Nanny was released. Herrmann repeatedly refers to recent German history in her books. She also writes thrillers for young people, radio plays and scripts.

Her first novel Das Kindermädchen was awarded in 2005 by the jury of the KrimiWelt best list ( Nordwestradio , Arte , Die Welt ) as the best German-language crime novel of the year (6th place). She also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Carlo Rola . The ZDF exuded the film of the same name on January 9, 2012. as a TV movie of the week. He was nominated for the Bambi Audience Award 2012.

The TV film The Last Instance (EA January 20, 2014), based on the novel of the same name and the script by Elisabeth Herrmann, was the ZDF's most-watched Monday film since the ratings began with 7.7 million viewers (and 340,000 views in the media library).

Herrmann wrote the script for the ZDF television film Schattengrund , which was broadcast on December 10, 2018, based on her detective novel of the same name. As television film of the week with Josefine Preuss in the leading role, the film had 6.36 million viewers.

Herrmann lives in Berlin.

Awards

In 2011 Elisabeth Herrmann was awarded the Radio Bremen detective award. In 2012 she was awarded the German Crime Prize for the novel Witness to the Dead . In 2014 she received the Herzogenrather Handschelle crime prize for the novel The Village of Murderers .

Works

Joachim Vernau crime novels

• The nanny (2005), Rotbuch Verlag , 432 pages, ISBN 978-3-434-53138-8 .
• The Seventh Hour (2007), List Verlag, 416 pages, ISBN 978-3-471-79553-8 .
• The last instance (2009), List Verlag, 416 pages, ISBN 978-3-471-35005-8 .
• Sunken Graves (2013), Goldmann Verlag , 448 pages, ISBN 978-3-442-47995-5 .
• Totengebet (2016), Goldmann Verlag , 448 pages, ISBN 978-3-442-48249-8 .
• Requiem for a friend (2020), Goldmann Verlag

Sanela Beara crime novels

• The village of murderers (2013), Goldmann Verlag, 480 pages, ISBN 978-3-442-31325-9 .
• Der Schneegänger (2015), Goldmann Verlag, 446 pages, ISBN 978-3-442-31386-0 .

Judith Kepler crime novels

• Witness of the Dead (2011), List Verlag, 427 pages, ISBN 978-3-471-35037-9 .
• Voice of the Dead (2017), Goldmann, 539 pages, ISBN 978-3-442-31391-4 .
• Shadow of the Dead (2019), Goldmann, 672 pages, ISBN 978-3-442-31392-1 .

Historical novels

• Konstanze (2009), List Taschenbuch Verlag, 468 pages, ISBN 978-3-548-60893-8 .
• Constance. Die Zwei Könige (2011), List Taschenbuch Verlag, 469 pages, ISBN 978-3-548-60920-1 .

Detective novels for teenagers

• Lilienblut (2010), cbt Verlag , 448 pages, ISBN 978-3-570-30762-5 .
• Schattengrund (2012), cbt Verlag, 416 pages, ISBN 978-3-570-16126-5 .
• Seefeuer (2014), cbt Verlag, 415 pages, ISBN 978-3-570-16267-5 .
• Die Mühle (2016), cbt Verlag, 448 pages, ISBN 978-3-570-16423-5 .

More books for young people

• You don't kiss soap bubbles (2013), cbt Verlag, 315 pages, ISBN 978-3-570-30867-7 .
• Zartbittertod (2018), cbt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-570-16513-3 .

Radio plays

• Silt . Director: Sven Stricker , Radio-Tatort 36, NDR 2010
• Sunken graves . Director: Sven Stricker, Radio-Tatort 47, NDR 2011
• Chicken Highway , directed by Sven Stricker, Radio Tatort 59, NDR 2012
• Ans Wasser , directed by Sven Stricker, Radio Tatort 68, NDR 2013
• The grave of the little birds , directed by Sven Stricker, Radio Tatort 87, NDR 2015
• In the year of the monkey , directed by Sven Stricker, Radio Tatort 106, NDR 2016

Audio books

• The 7th hour (2007), audio book Freiburg, read by Boris Aljinovic , 5 CDs 394 min., ISBN 978-3-89964-266-7
• The 7th Hour (2014), Audio-Media-Verlag, read by Herbert Schäfer , 6 CDs 458 min., ISBN 978-3-86804-869-8
• Lilienblut (2010), Random House Audio Cologne, read by the author, abbreviated 5 CDs 365 min., ISBN 978-3-8371-0294-9
• Witness of the Dead (2011), audio book Hamburg Hamburg, read by Nina Petri , abbreviated 6 CDs 478 min., ISBN 978-3-89903-038-9
• Das Kinderm Mädchen (2012), Random House Audio Cologne, read by Roeland Wiesnekker , abridged 6 CDs 453 min., ISBN 978-3-8371-0434-9
• Schattengrund (2013), Random House, read by Laura Maire , abridged 6 CDs 451 min., ISBN 978-3-86717-970-6
• The village of murderers (2013), Der HörVerlag , read by Eva Mattes , abridged, 7 CDs 553 min., ISBN 978-3-86717-984-3
• Sunken Graves (2013), Der HörVerlag, read by Max Hopp , 2 MP3 CDs, ISBN 978-3-8445-1340-0
• Sunken Graves (2014), Der HörVerlag, read by Thomas M. Meinhardt , 2 MP3-CDs, ISBN 978-3-8445-1551-0
• Der Schneegänger (2015), Der Hörverlag, read by Eva Mattes, 6 CDs, 485 min., ISBN 978-3-84451-727-9

Scripts

• 2012: Joachim Vernau : The nanny
• 2013: The last instance
• 2013: The man without a shadow
• 2015: The Murderer's Village (with Niki Stein )
• 2016: The 7th hour
• 2018: Schattengrund
• 2019: The Snowman (with Josef Rusnak )

Web links

• Literature by and about Elisabeth Herrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Elisabeth Herrmann at perlentaucher.de
• Elisabeth Herrmann in the Munzinger archive , accessed on August 13, 2020 ( beginning of article freely available)
• Elisabeth Herrmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Forced labor - at prime time?" On the ZDF website ( Memento from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Radio-Bremen-Krimipreis Elisabeth Herrmann. Radio Bremen, September 15, 2011 ( Memento from December 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Press release on the awarding of the German Crime Prize, January 2012 (PDF; 9 kB).
4. ↑ Awards. Book Market , January 16, 2012.