Marlene Bach

Marlene Bach (* 1961 in Rheydt ) is a German writer . The surname "Bach" is a pseudonym . She writes detective novels and short stories.

Life

Bach grew up on the Dutch border. She studied psychology in Bonn and did her doctorate there in 1991. Since 1997 she has lived in Heidelberg . Since then she has increasingly occupied herself with art and literature. In recent years, productions with hammer and pencil have emerged : stone sculptures, short stories and finally, in 2006, Elena's Silence, the first crime thriller, which has since been followed by six more volumes. In 2011 she received the Walter Kempowski Literature Prize for her short story Der Herbstsohn .

Awards and honors

• 2011 Walter Kempowski Literature Prize of the Hamburg Authors' Association (1st Prize)
• 2017 North Hessian Literature Prize "Holzhäuser Heckethaler" (2nd prize)

Fonts

Books

• Elena's silence. Emons-Verlag, Cologne, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89705-435-6
• Palatinate intrigue. Emons-Verlag, Cologne, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89705-520-9
• Off to hell. Emons-Verlag, Cologne, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89705-609-1
• Kurpfalzblues. Emons-Verlag, Cologne, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89705-757-9
• Kurpfalzgift. Emons-Verlag, Cologne, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95451-057-3
• Terminal in Heidelberg. Emons-Verlag, Cologne, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-968-2
• Velvet black. Emons-Verlag, Cologne, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7408-0766-5

Contributions

• Odenwälder Bauernschnitzel. In: Murderous Electoral Palatinate. Wellhöfer Verlag. Mannheim, 2008. ISBN 978-3939540236

• Beierlein’s Liberation. In: Gabriele Bensberg (Ed.), Schwanenhals and Krähenfuß. Engelsdorfer Verlag, 2009. ISBN 978-3869011691

• Kurpfälzer spice mixture. In: Soko Metropolitan Region (Hrsg.): Murderous Ingenuity: Criminals from the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region. Gmeiner Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3839211274

• Entangled. In: Cordelia Borchardt & Andreas Hoh (eds.): Death is waiting in the network. The best submissions to the Agatha Christie Crime Prize 2011. Fischer-e-books, 2011. ISBN 978-3-10-401335-0

• Two who lose. In: Working group against gambling addiction eV (Ed.): Colorful lights - dark shadows. Gambling - fascination and abyss. Geest-Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3866853898

• Thaddäus Zech & Stefan Schöbel (eds.): People - eyes - looks. Illustrated book about the "Weinloch" in Untere Straße / Heidelberg; Photos by Thaddäus Zech & Thilo Ross, texts by Marlene Bach. Schöbel-Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3981636604

• The autumn son. In: Sabine Witt (Ed.): First of all, wait for winter. Short Stories / Walter Kempowski Prize of the Hamburg Authors' Association 2005 to 2017. Expeditions Publishing House, Edition Hamburger Authors Association, 2017. ISBN 978-3943863789

Web links

• Literature by and about Marlene Bach in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage