Kathrin Hanke

Kathrin Hanke

Kathrin Hanke (born Kathrin Anne Langer on November 9, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German writer .

biography

After graduating from the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Hamburg at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Hanke studied cultural studies with a focus on language and communication as well as music. While still studying, she started working as a copywriter in the Hamburg branch of the global advertising and marketing agency BBDO , where she stayed after graduating ( Magister artium ). Other agencies followed over the years, including a. Rapp + Collins, McCann Erickson, and Lintas . In the early 2000s , Kathrin Hanke started her own business. She continued to work as a copywriter and ghostwriter . In addition, she wrote from the late 2000s until the early 2010 he years for the Bastion-Luebbe Heftroman series emergency physician Dr. Kersten some episodes under a pseudonym . Since 2014 she has been working full-time as a freelance writer , primarily in the crime novel genre .

Hanke is a member of the syndicate , the authors' group of German-language crime literature and of the Murderous Sisters - an association of German- language crime writers .

During her studies, Hanke published her first book under her maiden name Kathrin Langer together with Christine Demmer in 1994 at Gabler Verlag , the Ratgeber EVERYTHING you always wanted to know about communication. Further books followed as a ghostwriter for her. Hanke has been under contract with Gmeiner Verlag since 2013 . In the same year, the regional crime thriller Blutheide appeared here , the first volume of the so-called Heidekrimi series about the Lüneburg investigator Katharina von Hagemann , which she wrote in a duo with Claudia Kröger . By 2019 the author duo u. a. a total of seven volumes of the pagan crime novels together. Since then Hanke leads the detective story - book series continued alone.

With her works Die Giftmörderin Grete Beier (published 2017) and Die Engelmacherin von St. Pauli (published 2018), the author has also made a name for herself, especially in the true crime reading scene. Good reviews and positive reader responses caused them together with the Police Museum Hamburg - where it intensively for the book to Elisabeth Wiese , "the abortionist of St. Pauli" researched - in 2019 the then much discussed in the press and acclaimed picture book Hamburg's dark sides to publish.

Hanke has also written a historical novel as well as a romance novel . The latter was published by Maximum-Verlag under her maiden name Kathrin Langer .

Publications

Novels

Heide crime series

1. Blood heather . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2013, ISBN 978-3-8392-1426-8 .
2. Heather grave . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2014, ISBN 978-3-8392-1597-5 .
3. Eisheide . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2015, ISBN 978-3-8392-1740-5 .
4. Heath embers . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2016, ISBN 978-3-8392-1857-0 .
5. Heather anger . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2017, ISBN 978-3-8392-2029-0 .
6. Mordheide . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2018, ISBN 978-3-8392-2235-5 .
7. Heath Curse . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2019, ISBN 978-3-8392-2383-3 .

True crime

• The poisoner Grete Beier . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2017, ISBN 978-3-8392-2124-2 .
• The angel maker from St. Pauli . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2018, ISBN 978-3-8392-2300-0 .
• Hamburg's dark sides, illustrated book . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2018, ISBN 978-3-8392-2487-8 .

Further

• Drop of bitterness , garden thriller. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2016, ISBN 978-3-8392-1931-7 .
• Murderous Lüneburg Heath, short crime novels. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2017, ISBN 978-3-8392-2133-4 .
• Störtebeker's pirate, historical suspense novel. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2019, ISBN 978-3-8392-2486-1 .
• L (i) is a theme party, romance novel. Maximum-Verlag, Langwedel 2019, ISBN 978-3948346041 .

Guide / cookbook

• EVERYTHING you always wanted to know about communication, advice (under Kathrin Langer). Gabler-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 978-3409143066 .
• It's boiling in the heather, cookbook. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2018, ISBN 978-3-8392-2219-5 .

Audio books / radio plays

• Elbe Falls - The Dead in the Rain, read by diverse. Mermaid Media, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 9783981599404 .
• Downside, read by Bernd Dechamps . HEYRAverlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3946596035 .
• Blutheide, read by Beate Rysopp . SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen / DK 2018, ISBN 9788711849217 .
• Heide grave, read by Saskia Kästner . SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen / DK 2018, ISBN 978-3869743080 .
• Eisheide, read by Svenja Pages . SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen / DK 2018, ISBN 9783869743233 .
• Heideglut, read by Svenja Pages. SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen / DK 2018, ISBN 9788711849200 .
• Heidezorn, read by Svenja Pages. SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen / DK 2018, ISBN 9788711849194 .
• Mordheide, read by Svenja Pages. SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen / DK 2019, ISBN 9788726119664 .
• Heidefluch, read by Svenja Pages. SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen / DK 2019, ISBN 9788726119671 .
• The angel maker from St. Pauli, read by Matthias Hinz . SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen / DK 2020, ISBN 9788726410426 .

Awards

• 2020: Nomination for the Skoutz Award 2020 / midlist title (category: historical novels) for Störtebeker's pirate

Web links

• Literature by and about Kathrin Hanke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Kathrin Hanke in the catalog of the German Digital Library
• Kathrin Hanke's website
• Kathrin Hanke on the Gmeiner-Verlag website
• Kathrin Hanke (under Kathrin Langer) on the Maximum-Verlag website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kathrin Hanke - The Syndicate - Association for the promotion of German-language crime literature. Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Kathrin Hanke - Murderous Sisters. Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
3. ↑ The Deadly Heath - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. February 2, 2018, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ A surefire thing - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. June 30, 2013, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
5. ↑ Murder in the monastery garden: authors from Lüneburg write garden thrillers. Retrieved May 4, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Katharina's nerves flutter - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. March 8, 2017, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
7. ↑ Everyone now writes for themselves - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. March 24, 2020, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
8. ↑ Why do people do this? - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. September 7, 2017, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
9. ↑ Olaf Wunder: She was even more gruesome than Honka: Elisabeth Wiese, the "angel maker of St. Pauli". May 28, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
10. ↑ VIDEO | “Hamburg's dark sides”: Eerie photos of historical police work immortalized in an illustrated book. October 11, 2019, accessed on May 4, 2020 (German). 
11. ^ NDR: On the trail of Hamburg's crime scene photos. Retrieved May 4, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Historical insights into police work: Unique crime thriller pictures from the Gängeviertel. Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
13. ↑ New police book: Guessing the dead standing dead! Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Olaf Wunder: New illustrated book of the police museum: A look into Hamburg's abysses during the imperial era. October 20, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
15. ↑ The woman who loves Störtebeker - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. July 28, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
16. ↑ We are now a little more cruel - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. July 4, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
17. ^ Christmas thriller from Lüneburg. Retrieved May 4, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Benjamin is gone - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. October 8, 2015, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
19. ↑ Crime writers are now pouring a "downer" - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. June 27, 2016, accessed on May 3, 2020 (German). 
20. ↑ Delicious foods from the heather - our Stephan cooks with Claudia Kröger and Kathrin Hanke. Retrieved May 4, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Kay: Skoutz Award: Midlist History 2020 by Anna Castronovo. In: Skoutz. March 21, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 (German).