Nele Neuhaus

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Nele Neuhaus at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016

Cornelia "Nele" Neuhaus (born June 20, 1967 in Münster as Cornelia Löwenberg) is a German writer . She became known for her crime novels about the investigators von Bodenstein and Kirchhoff, who play in the Taunus region.

Youth and private life

Neuhaus was born in 1967 as the second of four children. She grew up in Paderborn and moved with her family to the Taunus at the age of eleven, when her father Bernward Löwenberg became district administrator of the Main-Taunus district . After graduating from high school, she studied law, history and German studies, but dropped out after a few semesters and worked in an advertising agency in Frankfurt. In 1995 she married the 20 years older meat manufacturer and show jumper Harald Neuhaus, whom she supported in running his meat factory in Schwalbach am Taunus .

After the separation in 2011, the author lives with her second husband, the financial expert and CEO of her foundation, Matthias Knöß, in Vordertaunus .

Professional career

In 2005 Neuhaus published her first book, the thriller Unter Haien , which tells the story of a German investment banker in New York City , on one of the self-publishing platforms of the Monsenstein and Vannerdat publishing group . Good reviews and positive reader reactions led her to write a second book. The detective novel An Unpopular Woman was self- published again. Mordsfreunde , the second crime thriller with the investigator duo Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff, made the Berlin publishing house Ullstein Verlag aware of Neuhaus. She has been under contract with Ullstein since the beginning of 2008 and published Deep Wounds, the third crime novel in the Bodenstein-Kirchhoff series , in September 2009 . In June 2010 the fourth novel in the series was published, entitled Snow White Must Die , which followed on from the success of earlier books. The fifth novel in the series with the title Wer Wind sät was published in March 2011 and made it to number 1 on the SPIEGEL bestseller list. The follow-up band Böser Wolf also entered SPIEGEL's hardcover best list in October 2012 at number 1.

Neuhaus also writes under her maiden name Nele Löwenberg.

Memberships and social engagement

Neuhaus is a member of the PEN Center Germany . She has taken on patronage for the FeM girls' house in Frankfurt and for Mentor - Die Leselernhelfer and founded a foundation of which her husband is the chairman of the board. The Nele Neuhaus Foundation supports projects that promote reading, writing and language skills in children and young people.

Works

Novels

Sheridan Grant series

  1. Summer of truth. (under Nele Löwenberg). Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-548-28561-0 .
  2. Road to nowhere. (under Nele Löwenberg). Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-548-28738-6 .
  3. Times of storm. Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-864-93124-6 .

Bodenstein & Kirchhoff series

  1. An unpopular woman. Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2006. (List, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-60887-7 .)
  2. Murder friends. Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2007. (List, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-60886-0 .)
  3. Deep wounds. List, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-60902-7 .
  4. Snow White must die. List, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-548-60982-9 .
  5. Who sows the wind. Ullstein, Berlin 2011. (New edition ibid. 2012, ISBN 978-3-548-28467-5 .)
  6. Bad Wolf. Ullstein, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-550-08016-6 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from October 22nd to December 2nd, 2012 )
  7. The living and the dead. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-550-08054-8 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from October 27 to November 16, 2014 )
  8. In the forest. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-550-08055-5 . In the forest as an audio book read by Julia Nachtmann . Audiobook Hamburg , Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95713-052-5 .
  9. Mother's Day. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-08103-3 .

Youth books

Film adaptations

The TV series Der Taunuskrimi began on ZDF with the broadcast of the first film adaptation, Snow White Must Die from the Bodenstein & Kirchhoff series on February 25, 2013 . Felicitas Woll took on the main roles as Commissioner Pia Kirchhoff and Tim Bergmann as Commissioner Oliver von Bodenstein .

Awards

literature

  • Oliver Mayer: Popular German Crime Fiction: Nele Neuhaus and her Bestselling Novels. In: Studies in Foreign Languages ​​& Literature. Vol. 50, pp. 45-60. (Link to the full text)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lisa Becker: The crime queen from the suburbs on faz.net from February 15, 2011, accessed on February 15, 2011.
  2. ↑ neleneuhaus.de
  3. ↑ Tina Schehler: Portrait of Nele Neuhaus from Our Horse. 7/2009, accessed on July 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ Nike Vlachos: "Not even my parents knew that we were getting married". In: Bunte . June 29, 2017 (issue 27), p. 28.
  5. ^ Peter Lückemeier: Crime writer Nele Neuhaus - sausage and murder and manslaughter. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . online on September 5, 2011.
  6. ↑ Britta Heidemann: Nele Neuhaus writes as Nele Löwenberg. In: WAZ. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
  7. ^ Grand Prix of Booksellers of Japan, List of Prizes in the International Category 2013 , accessed March 1, 2016.
  8. ↑ Book Journal 5/2016 , accessed on December 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Neuhaus, Nele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuhaus, Cornelia (full name); Löwenberg, Cornelia (maiden name); Löwenberg, Nele (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster