Lena Falkenhagen

Lena Falkenhagen (born October 10, 1973 in Celle ) is a German author of novels and games , editor and translator in the genres of historical novels and fantasy . Since 2019 she has also been the federal chairwoman of the Association of German Writers (VS) .

Lena Falkenhagen, 2019

Life

Lena Falkenhagen comes from Celle , where she was born on October 10, 1973. She studied German and English and published her first novel in 1996 with Wilhelm Heyne Verlag . In addition to writing novels, she worked as a translator, editor and author of novels and computer games. She is committed to the rights of authors in the cultural sector.

In 2009, Falkenhagen's second historical novel was published with the title Die Lichtermagd , for which she was honored with the Delia Literature Prize for the best German-language romance novel . In 2011 she was involved with the science fiction title Undercover in the “Justifiers Series” by Markus Heitz . In 2013 she published the last novel to date, The Last Hanseatin .

In the games area, Lena Falkenhagen helped design the role-playing world Aventurien as an editor from 1994 to 2011 and has contributed to more than two dozen products of the black eye ( Fantasy Productions , now Ulisses Games ). She then wrote for the computer game Drakensang Online ( Bigpoint ) for five years . The game received the German Developer Award in 2015 for the Rise of Balor expansion written by Falkenhagen . In 2017, Falkenhagen was voted one of the German TOP 10 games developers by the Gameswirtschaft magazine for her work and the presentations in the field of narrative design .

She leads writing workshops and gives introductions to Writing for Games' narratives . Her latest project is a network of narrative-heavy artists from the gaming industry. Here she works with Jason Durall (Systems & Content Design) and Andy Gibson (Audio Design).

Commitment and memberships

Falkenhagen has been a member of the jury of the German Role Playing Award since 2017 , in 2018 she was a member of the jury of the German Developer Award , and in 2017 of the jury of the Seraph Literature Award .

The author was a member of the historical novel Quo Vadis , which dissolved in 2014, and is a member of DeLiA , the syndicate and the Association of German Writers (VS). She is co-founder of the Fantastic Authors Network (PAN) and was second chairwoman of the board from 2016 to 2019. In this function she co-founded the network authors' rights . On May 31, 2017, she was elected Deputy Chairwoman of the board of the Berlin State Association (VS Berlin) within the Association of German Writers and was confirmed in the office on May 9, 2018. On February 16, 2019, the Federal Conference of Delegates in Aschaffenburg elected her as the Federal Chairperson of the Association of German Writers.

Works

Historical novels

• The girl and the black death. Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-453-40562-5 .
• The maid of lights. Heyne, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-453-40568-4 .
• The destiny reader. Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-47103-0 .
• The last Hanseatic woman. Heyne, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-47102-3 .

More novels

• Justifiers: Undercover. Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-52717-1 .

The following novels have been published for the game world of the black eye:

• Snake and sword. Heyne, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-11938-X .
• The Boron Island. , Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12684-X .
• Children of the night. Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12699-8 .
• The mist spirits. Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-15634-X .

Computer and online games

• Rise of Balor Add-On, Drakensang Online, Bigpoint GmbH 2016.
• Die Zwerge von Myrdosch Add-On, Drakensang Online, Bigpoint GmbH 2013.
• Atlantis Add-On, Drakensang Online, Bigpoint GmbH 2012.
• Drakensang: At the river of time , dtp entertainment AG 2010.
• Blood revenge . Mobile Game, Chromatrix 2005.

Games publications as (co-) author / editor

• In the shadow of Simyala (Das Schwarze Auge, reissue of the Simyala campaign), with Thomas Finn , Ulisses Spiele, 2007, ISBN 3-940424-03-X .
• Year of Fire III: The Return of the Emperor (Das Schwarze Auge, campaign volume ), together with Mark Wachholz and Denny Vrandecic, Fantasy Productions, 2005, ISBN 3-89064-396-5 .
• Year of Fire II: From the Ashes (Das Schwarze Auge, campaign volume), Fantasy Productions, 2005, ISBN 3-89064-389-2 .
• Der Basiliskenkönig (The Black Eye, Adventure), together with Thomas Finn, Fantasy Productions, 2001, ISBN 3-89064-363-9 .
• Gods and Demons (Editor Momo Evers ). Fantasy Productions, ISBN 3-89064-287-X .
• Magic and witchcraft (with Thomas Römer and others). Fantasy Productions, 2002, ISBN 3-89064-286-1 .
• Easily earned gold . Fantasy Productions, 2002, ISBN 3-89064-370-1 .
• Stone of the Mada . Fantasy Productions, 2001, ISBN 3-89064-355-8 .
• The Kingdom of Almada (co-editor Niklas Reinke). Fantasy Productions, 2000, ISBN 3-89064-278-0 .
• Sumu's blood . Ulisses Games, 1999, ISBN 3-89064-343-4 .
• The Levthan's ribbon . Ulisses Games, 1999, ISBN 3-89064-337-X .
• Churches, cults, religious warriors ( Jörg Raddatz and others). Fantasy Productions, 2000, ISBN 3-89064-259-4 .
• Golden flowers on a blue background . Schmidt Games

Web links

Discussion between Lena Falkenhagen and Uwe Rohwedder about gender-sensitive language on Wikipedia (Hamburg, May 2019)

• Literature by and about Lena Falkenhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lena Falkenhagen in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Lena Falkenhagen at Open Library
• Official website of the author
• Web presentation Writing for Games' Narrative

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fantastic Authors Network (PAN) eV: Lena Falkenhagen. Retrieved from www.bannkreis.de on February 9, 2020.
2. ↑ Previous winners - DELIA - Association of German-speaking romance novelists. In: delia-online.de. Accessed August 1, 2017 (see 2010). 
3. ↑ Lena Falkenhagen in conversation with Vinsalt's DSA ticker. In: vinsalt.de. Retrieved August 1, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Denise Bergert: German Developer Award 2015: The winners. In: heise.de. December 18, 2015, accessed August 1, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Top 50 women in the games industry 2017: Development. In: gameswirtschaft.de. January 24, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2017 . 
6. ↑ 1narrative - One Vision in Audio, Art and Text. In: 1narrative.de. Retrieved August 1, 2017 . 
7. ^ German RPG Award: The Jury 2017. Accessed on May 22, 2019 . 
8. ^ German developer award : Lena Falkenhagen. Retrieved May 22, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Fantastic Academy: Jury. Retrieved May 22, 2019 . 
10. ^ Fantastic authors network: The board. In: phantastik-autoren.net. Retrieved July 18, 2017 . 
11. ↑ New board members at PAN. May 8, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2019 (German). 
12. ↑ Board members. VS Board of Directors Berlin, elected on May 31, 2017. (No longer available online.) In: vs-berlin-brandenburg.de. Archived from the original on July 13, 2017 ; accessed on August 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ New board members , elected on May 9, 2018, online at vs-berlin-brandenburg.de
14. ^ BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH: Lena Falkenhagen is the new VS chairwoman. In: BuchMarkt. February 16, 2019, accessed on February 17, 2019 (German).