Mechtild Borrmann
Mechtild Borrmann (* 1960 in Cologne ) is a German crime novelist , educator and restaurateur. She lives in Bielefeld .
Life and work
Borrmann grew up in Kleve on the Lower Rhine. She completed training as an educator, gestalt therapist, and dance and theater teacher. As an educator she was among others at a charity as a professional carer working, worked in a drug counseling center and in the Bodelschwingh Institutions with epileptic children and in a folk high school . After training to become a dance theater teacher, she worked as an assistant director and choreographer for various dance and theater projects , where she also took over the service management. She then spent 18 months in Corsica in 1994/95 . From 2003 to August 2008 Mechtild Borrmann ran a restaurant in Bielefeld's old town.
She made her debut in 2006 as a freelance writer with the detective novel When the heart beats in the head . In 2007 and 2009, two more detective novels and some short stories followed . She was awarded the German Crime Prize in 2012 for the crime thriller Who breaks the silence . In 2015 she was the first German-speaking author to receive the Elle magazine's literary prize for the novel Der Geiger .
Awards
- 2012: German Crime Prize for Who Breaks the Silence .
- 2013: Herzogenrath handcuffs for Der Geiger
- 2015: Grand prix des lectrices de Elle for Le Violoniste (The Violinist) .
- nomination
- 2015: Nomination for the Friedrich Glauser Prize with The Other Half of Hope
Publications
- Detective novels
- When the heart beats in your head. KBV-Verlag, Hillesheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-937001-70-8 . → Audiobook 2008
- Tomorrow is the day after yesterday. Pendragon, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-86532-077-3 .
- In the middle of the city. Pendragon, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-86532-128-2 .
- Who breaks the silence. Pendragon, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-86532-231-9 . → Audiobook 2011
- Novels
- The violinist. Droemer, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-19925-1 .
- The other half of hope . Novel. Droemer, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-28100-0 . → Audiobook 2014, ISBN 978-3-86804-849-0 .
- Rubble child . Novel. Droemer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-28137-6 .
- Frontier workers . Novel. Droemer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-28179-6
- stories
- Friendship award. In: OWL-criminal. KBV-Verlag, 2009
- Rare water lily. In: Mordswestfalen. Pendragon, 2009
- Admission. In: Just like you me. 19 variations on Die Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . Pendragon, 2010
- Back on the trail . Knaur, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-43111-5 . ( E-book )
Web links
- Short biography and reviews of works by Mechtild Borrmann at perlentaucher.de
- Literature by and about Mechtild Borrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mechtild Borrman's website
- The dark side of coffee smuggling In: Aachener Zeitung from November 15, 2018
- Mechtild Borrmann in Babelio (French)
Individual references, comments
- ↑ a b Deutschlandradio Kultur from July 20, 2011: Eternal friendship with fatal consequences
- ↑ Lexicon of German crime authors: Borrmann, Mechtild
- ↑ Mechtild Borrmann, biography ( Memento from February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Heidi Hagen-Pakdemir: The restaurant "Der Rabe" is closed again. In: New Westphalian . August 24, 2017, archived from the original on December 15, 2018 ; accessed on December 15, 2018 .
- ↑ The other half of hope. Droemer Knaur , accessed December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Tomorrow is the day after yesterday. Pendragon Verlag, 2007, accessed May 9, 2017 .
- ↑ In the middle of the city. Pendragon Verlag, 2009, accessed May 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau Review of February 16, 2011: "Innocence of late birth"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borrmann, Mechtild |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German crime novelist, educator and restaurateur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |