Ottilie Arndt
Ottilie Arndt (née Hofmann; * 1951 in Amberg ) is a German writer who writes detective novels under the pseudonym Lena Bloom . She is a qualified social scientist and member of Altstadtfreunde Nürnberg .
Career
Ottilie Hofmann grew up in Amberg and attended the Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium in Amberg with her twin sister Lydia from 1961 to 1970 . After graduating from high school, she studied pedagogy at the University of Regensburg .
In 1974 she married Hans-Jürgen Arndt and moved to Nuremberg with him. She worked as a teacher and wrote for the magazine Freund der Kinder . Arndt became more and more interested in foreign school systems and studied them during numerous stays abroad, including from 1987 to 1991 in Colombia . At the same time, she published a number of scientific articles on this.
In 1992 the Arndt family moved into a house on the Pegnitz in the Johannisviertel, which is only a few hundred meters away from the Johannisfriedhof. At the Institute for Elementary School Research Nuremberg of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg , she wrote her dissertation on the topic: The Spanish school reform of 1990. Investigation of a systemic reform concept . In 1999 she was appointed professor by the university.
In 2000, she finished her teaching position in order to devote herself to her writing career under the pseudonym Lena Bloom .
“ I've always enjoyed reading crime novels from other cities to get a picture of the city, then I thought to myself, why shouldn't there be something like this for Nuremberg? "
Works
Fiction
The main character in the crime novels is chief inspector Johanna Uhl .
- Roses in Sankt Johannis. Novel . Fouqué-Literaturverlag, Frankfurt / M. 2002, ISBN 3-8267-5105-1 (the action takes place in St. Johannis (Nuremberg) , one of the oldest districts of Nuremberg).
- Deceptive appearance. Novel . Fouqué-Literaturverlag, Frankfurt / M. 2004, ISBN 3-8267-5561-8 (the plot begins in the Rosenaupark).
- Put on the line. Novel . Fouqué-Literaturverlag, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-86548-801-5 (the action begins in the rocky passages and takes place in the vicinity of the Nuremberg Toy Fair , at the Chinese Carnival in Dietfurt and in the USA Frankenmuth ).
Non-fiction
- The Spanish school reform of 1900. Investigation of a systematic reform concept . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-412-08999-0 (also dissertation, University of Erlangen 1999).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Roßner: crime scene Nuremberg, place of birth Amberg. In: Amberger Zeitung . December 11, 2004, accessed April 22, 2009 .
- ↑ Information on the tomb in the Johannisfriedhof
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arndt, Ottilie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bloom, Lena (pseudonym); Hoffmann, Ottilie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | On the mountain |