Nicola Förg

Nicola Förg (2019)

Nicola Förg (2009)

Nicola Förg (born December 13, 1962 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German travel journalist and writer .

Life

Nicola Förg is the daughter of Maximilian Förg (District Director Allianz, †) and Grit Förg (Senior Student Councilor, †). She grew up in Oberstaufen and Kempten in the Allgäu. She graduated from the Hildegardis Gymnasium in Kempten ; traveled to Australia (work & travel) and began studying German and geography at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich in 1983 . At the time she was already designing a city magazine in Kempten and was a freelance radio operator for sports topics. After graduating, Förg worked as an editor for the magazines Traveller`s World and Ski.

From 1991 Förg published as a freelance journalist articles on the topics of travel, tourism and interior design in various magazines and newspapers. Her focus was on winter sports, winter travel as well as horse keeping and riding trips. The country focus mainly in the Alps , Scandinavia , GB / Ireland and Canada . She wrote various travel guides and travel books. She is a committed animal connoisseur and has been responsible for the weekly animal website at Münchner Merkur for 15 years .

With "Schussfahrt" Nicola Förg made her debut in 2002 as an author of crime novels. Her first series of books about Commissioner Gerhard Weinzirl was published by Emons Verlag and was later reprinted by Goldmann. The location of Förg's Weinzirl series was initially her home in the Allgäu, then the Pfaffenwinkel .

The second series started in 2009 with “Death on the Piste”. The series around the two commissioners Irmi Mangold and Kathi Reindl takes place around Garmisch-Partenkirchen , in the Ammergebirge and Ausserfern. The books regularly reach the top ten of the Spiegel bestseller list. The characteristics of the series are well-researched environmental, nature conservation and animal topics such as B. biogas plants, the use of glyphosate, illegal puppy trade, the sale of the Alps.

Nicola Förg has worked on numerous crime anthologies (including Droemer Verlag , Ars Vivendi , Allitera , dtv , Heyne , Piper and many more)

Nicola Förg lives and runs a farm with her husband Lutz Rudat in Prem am Lech in the Weilheim-Schongau district .

Works

Detective novels

Commissioner Weinzirl series

• 2002: Shot run. (Allgäu crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 3-89705-286-5
• 2003: Spark Sunday. (Allgäu crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 3-89705-302-0
• 2004: horse trading. (Allgäu crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 3-89705-362-4
• 2005: fear of God. (Oberland crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 3-89705-404-3
• 2006: Iron Heart. (Upper Bavaria crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 3-89705-438-8
• 2007: Night trails. (Upper Bavaria crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 978-3-89705-522-3
• 2008: Hundsleben. (Upper Bavaria crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 978-3-89705-615-2
• 2010: Market bustle. (Upper Bavaria crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 978-3-89705-786-9
• 2013: Thunderstorm. (Upper Bavaria crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 978-3-95451-140-2
• 2017: Home Heart. (Allgäu crime thriller). Emons Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7408-0173-1

Commissioner Mangold series

• 2009: Death on the slopes , (Alpen-Krimi), Piper Munich, ISBN 978-3-492-25389-5
• 2010: Mord im Bergwald , (Alpen-Krimi), Piper Munich, ISBN 978-3-492-25788-6
• 2011: Hüttengaudi , (Alpen-Krimi), Piper Munich, ISBN 978-3-492-26496-9
• 2012: Mordsviecher , (Ein Alpen-Krimi), Pendo Munich, ISBN 978-3-86612-310-6
• 2013: Platzhirsch , (Ein Alpen-Krimi), Pendo Munich, ISBN 978-3-86612-343-4
• 2014: Scheunenfest , (Ein Alpen-Krimi), Pendo Munich, ISBN 978-3866123441
• 2016: The silent poison (An Alpine thriller), Pendo Munich, ISBN 978-3866123458
• 2017: Scharfehund (An Alpine Crime), Pendo Munich, ISBN 978-3866124189
• 2018: Raven Black Booty (An Alpine Crime), Pendo Munich, ISBN 978-3-86612-419-6
• 2019: Angry Wolves (An Alpine Crime), Pendo Munich, ISBN 978-3-86612-420-2
• 2020: Whispering Forests (An Alpine Crime), Pendo Munich, ISBN 978-3-86612-486-8

Audio books

• 2010: Murder in the mountain forest. Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-8337-2660-6 , 3 CDs 254 min., Read by Johanna Bittenbinder
• 2011: Death on the slopes. Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-8337-2717-7 , 3 CDs 230 min., Read by Julia Fischer
• 2011: Hüttengaudi. Osterwoldaudio , Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86952-101-5 , abbreviated, 4 CDs 290 min., Read by Michaela May
• 2012: murderous creatures. Osterwoldaudio, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86952-112-1 , abbreviated, 5 CDs 384 min., Read by Michaela May
• 2014: Barn Festival. Osterwoldaudio, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86952-205-0 , abbreviated, 5 CDs 389 min., Read by Michaela May
• 2014: Schussfahrt , Audio Media Verlag, abridged, 5 CDs 375 min., Read by Hans Jürgen Stockerl , ISBN 978-3868048704
• 2014: top dog. Osterwoldaudio, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86952-201-2 , abbreviated, 5 CDs, 397 min., Read by Michaela May
• 2015: Happiness is not for cowards. Osterwoldaudio, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86952-247-0 , abbreviated, 4 CDs, 295 minutes, read by Jodie Ahlborn

Christmas novels

• 2019: Dublin's Winter Wonder. (Christmas novel), Piper Verlag, ISBN 978-3-492-06179-7

Travel guide (selection)

• Upper Bavaria. (Merian Live guide!). Gräfe and Unzer, 1996, ISBN 3-7742-0261-3 .
• Munich ... the cosmopolitan city with a heart. Reise Know-How Verlag Rump, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-8317-1724-8 .
• Austria. (Polyglott on tour - travel guide). Polyglott, ISBN 978-3-493-55702-2 .
• Fun & Sport in Ice & Snow - the winter sports guide for beginners and freaks. Reise Know-How Verlag Rump, 2003, ISBN 3-8317-1086-4 .

Other publications

• The happiness of this earth horse stories, Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-475-54474-3 .
• Magnificent Bavaria Alpenland from above. (Illustrated book by Klaus G. Förg with texts by Nicola Förg), Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-475-54303-6 .
• Ms. Mümmelmeier tells about Atzenhuber. Katzengeschichten, Emons, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89705-572-8 .
• Happiness is not for cowards. Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-06015-8 .

Web links

• Nicola Förgs publisher's website with reading dates, accessed on April 4, 2017
• Nicola Förg's "Ponyhof" opened on October 5, 2014
• Literature by and about Nicola Förg in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Nowicki: “Being different can be fatal” . In: Allgäuer Zeitung. Number 195, August 26, 2009, Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag
2. ↑ Nicola Förg. at: amazon.de , accessed on January 10, 2012.
3. ↑ Nicola Förg. ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at: deutsche-krimi-autoren.de , accessed on January 10, 2012. 
4. ^ New illustrated book by Klaus B Förg at OVB-Online