Rainer M. Schröder

Rainer Maria Schröder (born January 3, 1951 in Rostock ) is a German author of adventure novels for young people, mystery thrillers and historical social novels for adults, who also publishes under the pseudonyms Ashley Carrington , Raymond M. Sheridan and RM Schroeder .

So far it has had a total print run of over six million book copies. In 1988 he received the Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize for his historical Australian novel Abby Lynn - Banished to the End of the World . In 1998, the Federal Agency for Civic Education counted his work Under the Jacaranda Tree among the 100 novels in world literature of the 20th century. Also in 1998 he received the 3rd International Eifel Literature Prize for the novel The Secret of the White Monks . The secret of the mapmaker was awarded the literary prize of the Moerser youth book jury as well as book of the month by the working group youth book Göttingen. In 2005 he was awarded the Buxtehuder Bulle youth book prize for The Lagoon of the Galleys . Schröder's works have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Slovak, Latvian, Dutch, Japanese, and Russian.

Life

Schröder grew up in East Berlin . Shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall , his family fled with him to the West, where they initially lived in the camp for a year. They then moved to Dortmund and Düsseldorf , where he graduated from high school in 1971 and then studied opera singing to become an opera singer. Schröder played the guitar in a rock band called Union Jack .

At the request of his father, a former head physician at the Berlin Charité , he also aimed for an academic career. First he completed a two-year officer training course with the Air Force and then volunteered at the Rheinische Post in order to take up law studies at the University of Cologne in 1974 . In addition, he studied German , theater , film and television studies and wrote texts and articles for newspapers and the WDR . In 1976 Franz Schneider Verlag bought his first book for young people , “In die Trap”, whereupon Schröder dropped out of studies after the seventh semester.

Other novels followed, which were published by Franz Schneider Verlag, Stalling and Heyne Verlag . In 1977 he made his debut as a playwright. He worked for nine months as a lecturer and then as a freelance writer . In 1980 he and his wife Helga settled on a farm in southern Virginia on Smith Mountain Lake .

Rainer M. Schröder also wrote a number of non-fiction music books, including the biography of the Scorpions , published by Heyne Verlag in 1980 , with whom he was friends, with whom he accompanied on tours in France, England and California and with whom he had spent weeks in the recording studio.

Schröder travels and collects information for his adventure novels. Today he lives in Palm Coast (Florida) and in the Bergisches Land .

His novels often take place in the period from 1100 to 1900 (for example The Secret of the Cardmaker , The Legacy of the Old Pilgrim or The Monastery of the Heretics ). An exception are the books from the time of the Second World War , such as The Long Journey of Jakob Stern . The two-parter Liberty 9 is a special feature, as it is a science fiction novel and Schröder deviated from his genre for the first time. Schröder is also the author of the Kommissar Klicker series, which appeared as a book series for young people and a radio play series.

Buxtehuder Bulle : brass plate in Buxtehuder Bahnhofstrasse

Awards

• 1984 Silver Schneider book from Franz Schneider Verlag
• 1988 Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize for Abby-Lynn - Banished to the End of the World
• 1993 Goldenes Schneider book from Franz Schneider Verlag
• 1998 3rd International Eifel Literature Prize for The Secret of the White Monks
• 1998 Book of the Month Prize for My Fire Burns in the Land of Falling Waters by the German Academy for Children's and Young People's Literature
• 1999 JuBu book of the month for Felix Faber - across the sea and through the wilderness
• 2003 Moers Youth Book Prize for The Secret of the Card Maker
• 2003 Book of the Month Prize for The Secret of the Card Maker from the Göttingen Youth Book Working Group
• 2004 Buxtehuder Bulle for The Lagoon of the Galleys
• 2016 Spandau Youth Literature Prize for Sky Without Stars

Works

as Rainer M. Schröder
Book series Commissioner Klicker (10 volumes) Private investigator Mike McCoy (3 volumes) Scary Adversaries (Science Fiction Youth Series) Scary opponents of the fourth kind - Fight in the UFO - 1978 Eerie Adversaries of the Fifth Kind - The Andromeda Riddle - 1979 Eerie Adversaries of the Sixth Kind - The Star Trap - 1979 Pizzabande (together with other authors) Pepper for Pistachio Paule or The Extra Tour - 1986 The Soft Pawed Bait or The Suspicion - 1991 Vampires don't chew cloves of garlic or The Hooded Man - 1993 The beheaded goddess or robbery at midnight - 1994 Abby Lynn saga Banished to the end of the world - 1987 Lost in the Wild - 1993 Betrayed and Persecuted - 2001 Hidden in no man's land - 2004 Paradise Lost - 2014 The falcon saga Under the sign of the falcon - 1989 On the trail of the falcon - 1990 Under the spell of the falcon - 1991 In the Valley of the Falcon - 1992 Felix Faber The real adventures of Felix Faber - 1997 Felix Faber - Across the Sea and Through the Wilderness - 1998 The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail The fall of Acre - 2006 The amulet of the desert warriors - 2006 The Labyrinth of the Black Abbey - July 2007 The Medici Chronicles Guardian of Power - February 2010 The Godfather of Florence - July 2010 The legacy of the clan - August 2011 Liberty 9 Liberty 9 - Security Zone - 2012 Liberty 9 - Dead Zone - 2013 Father Angelico trilogy The Colors of Florence: Father Angelico's First Fall - 2012 The Angel of Death of Florence: Father Angelico's new case - 2013 The Florence Blood Mass: Father Angelico's New Case - 2014	Individual works California Gold Rush - 1979 Sir Francis - Pirate of the Seven Seas - 1980 Gallows Island - 1980 Genghis Khan - King of the Steppes - 1981 Captain Kidd's Last Voyage - 1981 Explorer, researcher, adventurer - 1992 David Cooper's odyssey - 1992 Jonathan Blum's wondrous world tour - 1995 The Secret of the White Monks - 1996 My fire burns in the Land of the Falling Waters - 1998 Among treasure hunters, gold diggers and alligators - 1999 The Legacy of the Old Pilgrim - 1999 The Alchemist's Secret Knowledge - 2000 The Treasure of Santa Maravilla - 2000 The Invisible Seal - 2001 Alice Shadwell's Missing Testament - 2001 The Cardmaker's Secret - 2002 The divided Bruges - 2002 Red Cape of Adventure - 2002 The long journey of Jakob Stern - 2003 White Gold Hunter - 2003 The lagoon of the galleys - 2004 The Secret Mission of Jonah of Judea - 2005 The Heretic Monastery - 2005 Land of Fire, Land of Longing - 2005 Isle of Peril - 2006 Becky Brown- promise to look for me! - 2007 The Judas Papers - June 2008 Days of Darkness - July 2009 Madison Mayfield - The Eyes of Evil - November 2014 Sky Without Stars - October 2015 Wolf Moon River - 2016
Pseudonym Ashley Carrington
Book series Jessica series Jessica or the wrong ways of love - 1984 Jessica or The Goal of All Longing - 1987 Jessica or in the distance, happiness beckons - 1987 Jessica or what remains is hope - 1988 Jessica or the Island of Lost Love - 1989 Jessica or the longing in the dawn - 1989 Jessica or under the Southern Cross –1990 Jessica or in the storm wind of passion - 1990 Jessica or all luck has its price - 1992 Jessica or Love Never Ends - 1992 Valerie series Valerie, heiress to Cotton Fields - 1987 Valerie, mistress of Cotton Fields - 1987 Valerie - Clouds Over Cotton Fields - 1989 Valerie - Caught on Cotton Fields - 1989 Valerie - Flames Over Cotton Fields - 1990 Valerie - Return to Cotton Fields - 1991	Single volumes Hickory Hill - The Legacy of Alice Shadwell - 1990 River of Dreams - 1990 Belmont Park - 1991 The Lords of the Coast - 1992 The Prisoner of the Sun Island and Other Stories - 1992 Coast of Promise - 1993 Alluring Land - 1993 Blood and Diamonds - 1994 (2007 new release Im Rausch der Diamanten as Rainer M. Schröder) Seasons of Love - 1994 The Shell Merchant's Son - 1995 The Kimberley Rose - 1996 Under the jacaranda tree - 1997
Pseudonym Raymond M. Sheridan
Book series Edgar Wallace chases the Phantom series Edgar Wallace chases the Phantom Die 3 from Dock Hurricane (Volume 1) - 1983 Edgar Wallace Chasing the Phantom Die 3 and the Man with the Harmonica (Volume 2) - 1983 Edgar Wallace Chasing the Phantom Die 3 and the Snow-White Jaguar (Volume 3) - 1984 Edgar Wallace Chases the Phantom The 3 and the Black Glove (Volume 4) - 1984 Edgar Wallace Chases the Phantom The 3 and the Golden Monkey (Volume 5) - 1985
Pseudonym RM Schroeder Lady Moonshine - 2017

Audio books

• Abby Lynn. Banished to the end of the world. The Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-89940-232-2 .
• Abby Lynn. Betrayed and persecuted. The Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-89940-536-1 .
• Abby Lynn. Lost in the wild. The Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-89940-326-8 .
• The secret of the white monks. The Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-89940-095-3 .
• The cardmaker's secret. The Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-89940-412-8 .
• The legacy of the old pilgrim. The Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-89940-020-5 .
• The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The amulet of the desert warriors. Goya libre, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8337-1778-9 .
• The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The labyrinth of the black abbey. Goya libre, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8337-2125-0 .
• The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The fall of Acre. Goya libre, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8337-1685-0 .
• The Judas Papers. The Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-86717-361-2 .
• The lagoon of the galleys. Goya libre, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8337-2002-4 .
• The Medici Chronicles 1. Guardian of Power. Goya libre, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8337-2592-0 .
• The Medici Chronicles 2. The Godfather of Florence. Goya libre, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8337-2610-1 .
• Days of darkness. Goya libre, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8337-2479-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer M. Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage
• The author's website at his agency AVA international
• Interview with Rainer M. Schröder, November 9, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ German National Library: Schröder, Rainer M. - Other names and pseudonyms d-nb.info .
2. ↑ ava-international.de: ava-international.de ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 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. .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Histo Couch editor: Rainer M. Schröder . In: Histo-Couch.de . ( histo-couch.de [accessed on August 29, 2017]).
4. ↑ Scorpions - Germany's most successful rock group . Heyne, Munich 1980. ISBN 978-3-453-80048-9 .