Helga Glaesener

Helga Glaesener (born November 19, 1955 in Oldenburg ) is a German writer .

Life

Helga Glaesener grew up as one of six siblings in a large family in Oldenburg, did her Abitur at the Gymnasium Cäcilienschule Oldenburg and from 1975 studied mathematics and computer science in Hanover without finishing her studies. Helga Glaesener only began to write when she moved to Aurich with her husband and five children in 1989 . After three rejected manuscripts, her fourth, The Saffron Trader , was finally published and a bestseller. She has been living in Oldenburg again since 2010.

Helga Glaesener's work includes historical novels and thrillers as well as fantasy works such as In the Circle of Mael Duin . Some of her books have been translated into Turkish . Since 2009 she has been writing detective novels under the pseudonym Tomke Schriever , previously from the East Frisia area. Since 2013 she has been writing detective novels under the pseudonym Klara Holm , which are set on the island of Rügen.

Awards

• 2017 Golden Homer in the Relationship & Society category for Die Postmeisterin

Works

• The saffron trader. Novel. List Verlag, Munich and Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-471-79338-0 . (Paperback edition by Heyne Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-13714-0 )
• The arithmetic artist. Novel. List Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-471-79366-6 .
• In the circle of Mael Duin. Novel. Econ-und-List-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-612-27574-7 .
• The singing stone. Novel. Econ-und-List-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-612-27427-9 .
• You sweet, gentle murderess. Novel. List Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-471-79420-4 .
• The black scarab. Novel. List-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-612-65062-9 .
• Who cares for ashes. Novel. List Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-471-79421-2 .
• The Christmas wolf. List Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-471-79483-2 .
• Saffron for Venice. Novel. (Follow-up volume from Die Safranhändlerin ), List Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-471-79491-3 .
• The gilder. historical novel. List-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-471-30007-7 .
• The witch and the corpse thief. historical novel, List-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-471-30008-4 .
• The bag cutter. historical novel. List-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-471-35101-7 .
• The postmaster. historical novel. List-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-471-35132-1 .
• The dead woman in the fencing room. historical novel. List-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-471-35155-0 .
• The sea hospital. historical novel. Rowohlt-Taschenbuchverlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-27410-7 .

The Thannhäuser trilogy

• The Indian tree. Novel. List-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-548-60010-7 .
• Lucifer's stone. Novel. List-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-60276-2 .
• The wrong oath. Novel. List-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-548-60565-6 .

The Tuscany Trilogy

• Wasp summer. Novel. List-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-471-79514-6 .
• Wolves in the olive grove. historical detective novel. List-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-471-79515-6 .
• The foundling house. historical novel. List-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-471-79516-3 .

Under the pseudonym "Tomke Schriever"

• And then there was silence. Detective novel. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-24860-3 .
• The boatman. An East Frisia thriller. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-25379-9 .

Under the pseudonym "Klara Holm"

• Seagull damage. Detective novel. Rowohlt-Taschenbuchverlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-26694-2 .
• Crow's nest. Detective novel. Rowohlt-Taschenbuchverlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-27071-0 .
• Ravenaas. Detective novel. Rowohlt-Taschenbuchverlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-27272-1 .

Web links

• Official website
• Official website of the pseudonym "Tomke Schriever"
• Official website of the pseudonym "Klara Holm"
• Literature by and about Helga Glaesener in the catalog of the German National Library