Kerstin Rech

Kerstin Rech

Kerstin Rech (born June 8, 1962 in Blieskastel ) is a German author.

Life

Kerstin Rech grew up in the Blieskastel district of Bierbach and attended high school in neighboring Homburg . After graduating from high school, she studied mathematics for three semesters, but then dropped out. She then worked in various jobs as a warehouse worker, editor of a company newspaper, chief secretary, proofreader and as a clerk in address marketing. In 1985 she began studying at the Stuttgart Film School in the Künstlerhaus Reuchlinstrasse . As a writer, she appeared in 1988 with prose , plays and radio plays . 1996 winner of the Microracconti-Mikrogeschichten competition , an initiative of the Instituto Italiano di Cultura Stuttgart and the Goethe-Institut in Turin , with the microstory Ten Minutes . In 2004, the novel The Fifth Sex was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize Crime Prize of Authors in the category of best debut in 2003. The novel Der Permes , published in 2004, was used as school reading material in the state of Saarland. 2010 first place at the Mannheim Heinrich Vetter Literature Prize with the short story Der Normalo . Kerstin Rech also writes for various German daily newspapers. She lives and works in Stuttgart and is a member of the Syndikat, the association for German-language crime literature.

Publications

Non-fiction

• Schlager, Saarland and the seventies . Geistkirch-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2017, ISBN 978-3-946036-68-5
• Spectacular criminal cases in Saarland . Geistkirch-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2015, ISBN 978-3-946036-43-2

Novels

• Saint Martin . SWB-Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-944264-06-6
• Kastanienhof . SWB-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-942661-04-1
• Hotel Excelsior . Conte Verlag, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-936950-77-9
• Schenselo . Conte Verlag, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-936950-60-1
• The werewolf from Webenheimer Bösch . Leda-Verlag, Leer 2006, ISBN 3-934927-78-5
• The Permes. Detective novel . Leda-Verlag, Leer 2004, ISBN 3-934927-52-1
• The fifth sex . Leda-Verlag, Leer 2003, ISBN 3-934927-35-1

Short stories

Short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies.

Radio plays

• 2011 Paula's instinct for murder - SWR4, Tübingen
• 2010 Dr alde Deibler (together with Carin Chilvers ) - SWR4, Tübingen
• 1999 Do you know Ms. Zapf? - WDR, Cologne
• 1995 Ten to four - MDR, Leipzig
• 1995 In the future - SR
• 1995 Nothing is proven - SR
• 1994 Oh yeah! - SR
• 1993 So much Dorn 'ein Rosenstock - Schweizer Radio DRS

Plays

• 1994 Oh yeah! (Performance by the theater group MundART SAAR , Saarbrücken with Alice Hoffmann and Gregor Weber )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Crime Couch: Kerstin Rech
2. ↑ Saarland-Lexikon (Saarbrücker Zeitung): Kerstin Rech ( memento of the original from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.