Petra Reategui

Petra Reategui (born December 17, 1948 in Karlsruhe ) is a German writer .

life and work

Petra Reategui first studied translation and interpreting for Italian and French at the University of Heidelberg , then sociology at the Free University of Berlin . From 1977 she initially worked as a freelance journalist for newspapers and radio and completed an internship at Deutsche Welle in Cologne from 1980 to 1982 .

From 1982 to 2003, Petra Reategui worked as a radio and television editor at Deutsche Welle. Reports and research often took her to Africa, Asia and Latin America. Since 2004 she has been working as a freelance writer and translator again . She writes short stories, radio plays and radio features and above all historical novels and detective novels, which mostly go back to actual events.

Petra Reategui has lived in Cologne since 1980. She is a member of the PEN , the Association of German Writers, the Association of Literature Scene Cologne and the Cologne authors' group FAUST.

Publications

Single track

• Falkenlust . Novel. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89705-456-6 .
• Filzengraben . Novel. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89705-630-5 . (Revised new edition: The stolen fragrance. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-447-2 ; Italian translation: Il profumo rubato. Le misteriose origini dell'Eau de Cologne. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978- 3-7408-0488-6 )
• Moselle wedding . Novel. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-95451-181-5 .
• Weinbrenner's shadow . Novel. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-429-8 .
• On a Friday in Colombo. Seven stories of life and death . Stories. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-2696-4 .
• The first murder in the alley. Nine stories with and without a happy ending . Stories. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7392-9374-5 .
• Court painter. The stolen life of Feodor Ivannoff called Kalmuck . Novel biography. Triglyph Verlag, Bad Saulgau 2017, ISBN 978-3-944258-07-2 .

Translations (selection)

• Lindsay Bremner: Johannesburg. One City, Colliding Worlds. STE Publishers, Johannesburg 2004, ISBN 1-919855-28-9 .
• Aranzazu de Isusi: Deseo y otras realidades. Longing and other realities . Stories. DTV, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-09497-9 .

Radio plays / radio features (selection)

• Fratricide. Radio play. WDR, 2008.
• Witnesses by the wayside. Hallway crosses and their stories. Radio feature. SWR, 2005.
• Missed over the Eifel. In search of WWII dead. Radio feature. SWR, March 2007.
• Blockages, panic, stage fright. From the difficult path to art. Radio feature. SWR, 2008.
• I poor Welsches Teufeli, When chimney sweeps and lemon traders from Italy came to the Rhine. Radio feature. SWR, 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Petra Reategui in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website