Karla Schmidt

Karla Schmidt (* 1974 in Göttingen ) is a German writer and literary scholar who also publishes under the pseudonym Charlotte Freise .

Life

After an internship in the features section of the daily newspaper Junge Welt in Berlin, Karla Schmidt studied culture, theater and film studies. From 2007 she worked as a director of studies for the Hamburg Academy for Distance Learning, where she was in charge of the fiction course. She also worked as a lecturer for story telling , as a dramaturge, ghostwriter and editor.

She lives in Berlin.

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For the story Weg mit Stella Maris she received the German Science Fiction Prize in 2009 in the category “best German short story of the year”.

In 2010 it was published by Wurdack-Verlag Hinterland , a literary experiment in which 20 authors wrote science fiction stories based on music by David Bowie , including Dietmar Dath , Karsten Kruschel , Dirk C. Fleck , Markolf Hoffmann , Wulf Dorn , Tobias Bachmann , Alexandr Voinov and Siegfried Langer .

In 2016 she wrote a contribution to the series The Ninth Expansion .

Works

The child on the stairs . Piper, 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25781-7 (psychological thriller).
The soul photographer . Rowohlt, 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-25512-0 (historical novel; as Charlotte Freise).
The red hall . Piper, 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-27294-0 (psychological thriller).
Cold heart . Rowohlt, 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-25769-8 (historical novel; as Charlotte Freise).
A new heaven for Kana . Wurdack, Nittendorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-95556-020-1 (science fiction).

As editor

Backland. 20 stories inspired by the music of David Bowie . 2010, ISBN 978-3-938065-69-3 .

Individual evidence

↑ in: Heidrun Jänchen , Armin Rößler (ed.): The audience. Wurdack, Nittendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-938065-62-4 .
↑ Josefson: Review of Hinterland . In: The Standard . December 18, 2010, accessed December 22, 2016 .

Web links

Literature by and about Karla Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
Karla Schmidt in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
Works by and about Karla Schmidt at Open Library
Author homepage

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Karla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Freise, Charlotte (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen

[1] : Heidrun Jänchen , Armin Rößler (ed.): The audience. Wurdack, Nittendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-938065-62-4 .

[2] Josefson: Review of Hinterland . In: The Standard . December 18, 2010, accessed December 22, 2016 .