Karin Buchholz (author)
Karin Buchholz (born August 24, 1963 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) is a German author and columnist .
Life
Karin Buchholz was born in Buchholz in the North Heath in Lower Saxony and moved to Schleswig-Holstein in 2004 . There she works in a disused beacon . Karin Buchholz is married and has a son, the graphic designer A. Robert Buchholz.
After training to become a patent attorney's assistant (1983) and foreign language assistant , Karin Buchholz started her own business in the same year as the owner of an office service, translator , foreign language assistant and later an office management consultant. Since 2006 she has only devoted herself to writing.
Writing career
Karin Buchholz began writing as early as 2003; Since 2006, the autodidact has been working as a freelance author and columnist .
Various book publications as well as work in the recording studio (including speaking of her audio book for the first volume of the series “Strandgut” and various speaking assignments).
The author also creates the illustrations for her books herself.
Karin Buchholz has been the author and editor of her own mini-book edition since 2012.
Every year Buchholz organizes numerous readings and reading salons all over northern Germany . The basic characteristic is the mixture of cheerful and contemplative texts: demanding and profound texts are interwoven with stories of Nordic local color , the magic of the moment and the happiness of the little things.
Her writing style is pictorial, she describes herself as a “word painter”. The focus of the writing activity is on the field of short stories, although works in other genres have also been created ( children's books , novels , poetry ).
Beyond the book publications, Buchholz became known through her work as a columnist (since 2008 she has been continuously satirical reports in the USA , her everyday observations from Germany appeared in some north German magazines).
Since 2010 she has appeared as a laudator ; Among others at vernissages of the Schleswig-Holstein painter Ines Ramm (Diakonie Kropp 2010 and Hotel Reichshof Hamburg 2012) and in 2014 as a jury member at the Schleswig-Holstein short story competition "Butter bei die Fisch - This is how the north writes".
Works
- Single track
- The scent of summer - a story. Frieling Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8280-2130-1
- Audio books
- Beach goods - stories with a sea view. Volume 1, author reading, 2CDs 152 min., Read by Karin Buchholz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030591-7
- Others
There are also several works in the BoD publishing house, such as B. the short story collections Strandgut - Stories with a Sea View. Volumes 1 and 2 and Stadtgezeiten , which are also offered as e-books, and the gift ribbons of their mini-book edition .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contribution to the program “The 50 Most Beautiful Lighthouses in the North” from NDR , August 2008
- ↑ Report on "The woman in the tower" in the magazine "LandGang - my beautiful north" (sh: z Verlag, January 2013 edition)
- ↑ Report “Creative with a sea view” in “XELLO Magazin”, September 2012
- ↑ Lt. own information on their official website [1] on September 18, 2014
- ↑ Kulturmagazin Unser-luebeck.de , category: Outside, search term: Karin Buchholz
- ↑ Union Bank: Butter bei die Fisch ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karin Buchholz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karin Buchholz's website
- Columns from the USA on Unser-luebeck.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buchholz, Karin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and columnist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buchholz in the north heath |