Lea Korte
Lea Korte (born June 2, 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ; actually Sylvia Ungeheuer ) is a German writer. She writes historical novels .
Life
Lea Korte started writing stories at an early age. After she had written three women's novels and a development novel under a different pseudonym , she turned to the historical novel. In 1996 The Nun with the Sword appeared , in which she dealt with the life of Catalina de Erauso , who was born in the 17th century , and in 2010 the novel The Maurin , in which she tells the last 15 years of the Spanish Reconquista based on the life of Zarah as-Sulami . In 2011 she published a romance novel for the first time: Summer Night in Mallorca: A Love Story, a contemporary novel in which two historical figures also play a role: George Sand and Frédéric Chopin . Another historical novel by her was published in December 2012: "The secret of the Maurin".
Lea Korte is a member of the authors' associations Quo vadis , DeLiA and Montsegur.
Korte has four children.
She lives in Spain and Germany.
Works
- The nun with the sword. droemer knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-63386-8 .
- The moor. droemer knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-50230-3 .
- The Maurine's secret. droemer knaur, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-50938-8 .
- Summer night in Mallorca. A Lovestory. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-352-00807-8 .
Web links
- http://www.LeaKorte.de
- Literature by and about Lea Korte in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Pieren: Lea on home visit . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . May 10, 2010 ( fnp.de [accessed June 20, 2010]). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Oliver Hack: The long way from Feldberg into the heart of Al-Andalus . In: Usinger Anzeiger . May 28, 2010 ( usinger-anzeiger.de [accessed June 20, 2010]). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information about Lea Korte on her website, accessed October 1, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korte, Lea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monster, Sylvia (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |