Nikola Hahn

Nikola Hahn (born November 8, 1963 in Wehrda ) is a German crime writer.

biography

Nikola Hahn grew up in Angelburg- Lixfeld. After graduating from high school, she studied at the administrative college in Cologne (inspector career at Deutsche Post), but broke off her studies to begin training with the Hessian police. In the autumn of 1986, Nikola Hahn was transferred to the riot police in Mühlheim am Main , was on duty at Frankfurt am Main airport , was deployed in demonstrations and was seconded several times to the police in the city and district of Offenbach . From 1988 to 1990 she worked as a group leader in training. In the spring of 1990 she switched to the criminal investigation department in Offenbach am Main . From 1991 to 1993 she studied at the Police College in Wiesbaden (commissioner career); afterwards she worked in the commissioner for perpetrator-oriented investigations and in the fraud commissioner; from 1995 as head of department in the area of ​​counterfeiting of money and documents. From 1999 to 2004 she was a member of the Police Department 11 at the Offenbach Police Headquarters (capital offenses, subject area robbery / extortion). Since May 2004 the chief detective has been working as a specialist teacher at the Hesse Police Academy in Wiesbaden, with a focus on "Police interrogation".

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Even as a child, Nikola Hahn wrote stories in her school notebooks; first serious work dates from 1980. Parallel to her police training, she began long distance learning in fiction , poetry and non- fiction in 1985, after which she mainly wrote poems and short stories, some of which were published in anthologies and magazines. From 1988 to 1990 she worked part-time freelance for the daily newspaper Offenbach-Post ; From 1993 to 1996 she was a member of the editorial team of the Hessische Polizeirundschau, published work-related articles. In addition, she was part of the editorial team of a literary magazine for several years.

In 1995 her first book, Baumgesicht , was published, a workshop edition with short prose and poems. The historical detective novel Die Detektivin followed in 1998, and Die Wassermühle , a contemporary novel , in the summer of 2000 . Her third novel, The Color of Crystal , another historical thriller, was published in September 2002. In summer 2003 her (out of print) debut Baumgesicht was reissued.

The total circulation of her books is more than 300,000 (as of 2006).

Nikola Hahn is a member of the German Society for Police History, the Syndicate , the group of authors of German-language crime literature and Agent of International Penfriends (IPF).

bibliography

Crime novels

• The detective , 1998 (novel)
• The color of crystal , 2002 (novel)
• The detective: Kriminalroman (Krimis zur Kriminalistik), (Completely revised new edition in paperback large format; with a historical city map inside), 2016

Others

• Tree Face, 1995 (poems and prose)
• The watermill, 2000 (novel)
• The Sun of the Gods - Writing Secrets, 2007
• How the snowdrop got its color, 2009 (collection of fairy tales)
• The Old Lady's Garden, 2013 (novel)
• The Runway - A Tale - A Memory, 2013
• See singing birds cry. HandyPoesie, 2013
• Mrs. Meyer's Magical Garden: A Novel, 2015 (English translation of "The Old Lady's Garden")
• Addressing the threats and questioning, 2nd revised edition 2016
• The watermill: and a cop life. Roman (newly revised paperback large format), 2016

e-book

• The Old Lady's Garden, 2012 (novel)
• See singing birds cry. HandyPoesie, 2012
• The Runway - A Story - A Memory, 2012
• The Watermill (novel), 2013 (newly revised version)
• When November is over. Farewell Chronicle, 2013
• Addressing the threat and questioning, 2013
• Tree Face, 2013
• How the snowdrop got its color, 2013
• Die Detektivin - Krimis zur Kriminalistik (novel), 2013 (newly revised version)
• The color of crystal part 1 - crime novels (novel), 2014 (newly revised version)
• The color of crystal part 2 - crime novels for criminalistics (novel), 2014 (newly revised version)

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikola Hahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Nikola Hahn's homepage
• Nikola Hahn's online diary
• Ullstein author page
• Thoni publishing house