Karin Schickinger

Karin Schickinger (* 1957 in Baden-Baden ) is a German writer.

Life

Karin Schickinger grew up in the Upper Rhine spa town of Baden-Baden . After graduating from the Richard-Wagner-Gymnasium, she studied chemistry in Freiburg im Breisgau , graduated with a diploma and then worked for the city newspaper for Freiburg. In 1988 she crossed the Sahara on a Yamaha XT 500 before starting an apprenticeship as a car mechanic specializing in motorcycle repair. 1991 followed a traineeship at the motorcycle magazine MO in Stuttgart and several years as an editor. After this experience, she started her own motorcycle magazine, Weib on Bike , in 1996emerged, a motorcycle magazine especially for women, which had to be closed after three issues due to lack of financial resources. Schickinger is a member of the Syndikat , an association of German-language crime writers.

Karin Schickinger now lives as a freelance journalist and crime writer in Freiburg im Breisgau .

bibliography

• Blue gold . Grafit, Dortmund 2007, ISBN 978-3-89425-330-1
• Murder on the Stilfser Joch . Highlights-Verlag, Euskirchen 2009, ISBN 978-3-93338-548-2
• The corpse in the lavender field . Highlights-Verlag, Euskirchen 2010, ISBN 978-3-93338-551-2
• Shots at the Schauinsland . Highlights-Verlag, Euskirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-93338-563-5
• Short thriller Killing Campino in the anthology Tödliche Wasser . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2009, ISBN 978-3-8392-1024-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Karin Schickinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on the Grafit Verlag website
• Website of the author with reading dates, book projects and a crime diary
• Author page at the Syndikat, authors' group of German-language crime fiction