Michael Kirchschlager

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Michael Kirchschlager (born April 23, 1966 in Staßfurt ) is a German historian , author and publisher . As an author and editor, he publishes both non-fiction books and fictional stories, especially on historical criminal cases and on the history and folklore of Thuringia . He has been running the Kirchschlager publishing house since 1995 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1984, Kirchschlager studied German and history from 1986 to 1991 at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , graduating as a historian. The subject of his diploma thesis was The Runneburg in Weißensee - History of a Residence of the Thuringian Landgraves . In November 1990 he was one of the founding members of the Runneburg Association along with the archaeologist Thomas Stolle. He has been a freelance historian since October 1992. In 1995 he founded the Kirchschlager publishing house , where he focused on criminal history and regional studies both his own works (as an author, editor or editor) and publications by other authors such as B. published the books by Hans Thiers .

In February 1998 Kirchschlager discovered the “Weißensee Purity Law ” from 1434 in the Statuta thabernae , a manuscript in the historical archive of the city of Weißensee - and thus 82 years older than the better-known Bavarian Purity Law from 1516.

In addition to many historical publications, he started writing historical crime novels in 1995. Since 2012 he has published children's books about the dragon Emil from the Drachenschlucht (Illustrations: Steffen Grosser) and appears at readings as the dragon knight Michael .

Due to his publications on medieval recipes, he worked as an actor in the living history production Adventure Middle Ages (ARD / Arte / MDR) in 2005 .

Works

Non-fiction

  • Michael Kirchschlager, Burkhard Lohmann, Thomas Stolle (edit.): Runneburg in Weißensee: Official guide . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1998
  • Everything you always wanted to know about the German pier . Hetzbold, Weißensee 1999, ISBN 3-934277-00-4
  • Michael Kirchschlager, Lothar Bechler: The Thuringian Obscurum: Terrible, hideous & horrible stories as well as all sorts of other peculiarities from old chronicles . Hetzbold, Weißensee 2001, ISBN 3-934277-01-2
  • Michael Kirchschlager, Lothar Bechler: The Saxon Obscurum: Terrible, hideous and horrible stories as well as all sorts of other peculiarities from old chronicles . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2001, ISBN 978-3-934277-02-1
  • Michael Kirchschlager, Lothar Bechler: The Saxon-Anhalt Obscurum: Terrible, hideous and horrible stories as well as all sorts of other peculiarities from old chronicles . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2003, ISBN 978-3-934277-06-9
  • St. Marien Güsten: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Catholic Church in Güsten . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2003.
  • I want to be a good cook: Kitchen secrets of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2004, ISBN 3-934277-08-X
  • Michael Kirchschlager, Lothar Bechler: The Obscurum: Murder and horror stories from chronicles of old Europe . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2005, ISBN 3-934277-09-8
  • (as editor): Murderers, robbers, cannibals: One hundred biographies and oddities of German criminals from the 15th to 18th centuries . Verlag Kirchschlager, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-934277-04-7
  • Thuringian crime chronicle of executed criminals . Festa, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-86552-069-2
  • (as editor): Kirchschlagers Criminal & Curiositäten-Cabinett 1 . Festa, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-86552-047-0
  • (as editor): Kirchschlager's Criminal & Curiositäten-Cabinett 2 . Festa, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-86552-048-7
  • Michael Kirchschlager, Stephan Harbort (foreword), Mark Benecke (afterword): Historical serial killers . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2007, ISBN 3-934277-13-6
  • The girl killer Hugo Schenk . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-934277-15-1
  • (as editor): Berlin criminals . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-934277-18-2
  • (as editor): Prussian criminal chronicle of executed criminals . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-934277-14-4
  • Michael Horn, Michael Kirchschlager, Petra Klages, Wolfgang Krüger, Armin Rütters, Richard Wosnik: Historical serial killers II . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-934277-25-0
  • Uwe Michas, Michael Kirchschlager, Marcel Piethe: The Mark Brandenburg. Thieves, murderers, robbers and scoundrels . Großer, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-910134-69-0
  • (as editor): Phantoms of the Underworld. The House of Torment and Other American Murder and Crime Cases (1897–1927) . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-934277-53-3
  • Small Thuringian Beer Book . RhinoVerlag, Ilmenau 2015, ISBN 978-3-95560-037-2
  • Michael Kirchschlager, Michael Horn (Ed.): A cruel murder. Selected leaflets with criminal and legal cases from the Wickiana . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-934277-59-5

Novels, short stories, anthologies

  • The diabolical tool: a literary chronicle . Burgverlag, Weißensee 1995, ISBN 3-931303-01-2
  • Crako and greed (historical thriller). Festa, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-86552-031-6
  • The Crako and the Poison Girl (historical thriller). Festa, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86552-053-1
  • Poison in the "Henne" (historical detective novel). Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-934277-23-6
  • Michael Kirchschlager, Steffen Grosser: Witch, Werewolf and Vampire: Mystical sagas and legends from Thuringia . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-934277-32-8
  • Hans Stahl and the Death of the Roses (historical detective novel). Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-934277-41-0
  • Michael Kirchschlager, Otto Kurt Dieter Heese (Hrsg.): My Arnstadt Christmas Book . Verlag Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-934277-58-8 .

Children's and young people's literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The publisher. (No longer available online.) Verlag Kirchschlager, archived from the original on April 6, 2016 ; accessed on April 23, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verlag-kirchschlager.de
  2. ↑ a b Falk Rockmann: European history (s) from Güsten to the world. Volksstimme.de, October 7, 2010, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Matthias Schulz: Struggle for the source. Der Spiegel, April 26, 1999, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Susanne Schlaikier: Book reading in Bernburg: Michael Kirchschlager presents his first children's book. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, February 5, 2013, accessed on April 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Heidi Henze: The dragon knight Michael tells about the dragon Emil in Zeulenroda. Ostthüringer Zeitung, September 22, 2015, accessed on April 23, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Marcel Schwarzenberger: Living History Series starts in autumn. Chronico, November 9, 2005, accessed April 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kirchschlager, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Staßfurt