Rebecca Abe

Rebecca Abe

Rebecca Abe (pseudonym), actually Stephanie Schuster (* 1967 as Stephanie Wagner, in Niederpöcking near Starnberg ), is a German writer , painter and illustrator . She also publishes under the pseudonyms Stephanie Fey , Ida Ding .

Life

Rebecca Abe is the daughter of the painter Josef Wagner (* 1937). Like her father, she also wanted to be a painter. After training as a graphic designer in Munich, she first worked as a freelance illustrator. In 1989, she illustrated the first book Heidi by Johanna Spyri . As an illustrator and author, she used the pseudonym Rebecca Abe from then on. She illustrates picture books, school books, children's books, books for young people and her own novels.

Her first novel was published in 2008 . The memory of the lie deals with the Lebensborn e. V. and plays in Munich and Norway between 1900 and the present. In it she links three women’s fates that have to do with the Lebensborn in different ways.

In 2011 her first historical novel was published, dealing with the Fugger merchant family . In it she describes the fate of the Fugger daughter Anna Jakobäa Fugger, who opposed the fate predetermined for her by her family and the priest and exorcist Petrus Canisius .

The main character in their thriller series The Faceless , the silenced , under the pseudonym published Stephanie Fey, the Munich medical examiner , Carina Kyreleis who also works as Gesichtsrekonstrukteurin. Her novels are created in close collaboration with the facial reconstructor Constanze Niess from the Frankfurt Institute for Forensic Medicine, with whom she also wrote the non-fiction book The Faces of the Dead , which deals with forensic medicine cases and facial reconstruction .

Her crime series, which she writes as Ida Ding, takes place in her hometown of Pöcking on Lake Starnberg. Volume 1 Hendlmord is a declaration of love to her husband Thomas, with whom she thinks up all the novels. Breaking Bad in Bavaria, because the crime thriller pays homage to Breaking Bad .

Her first novel, The Moment of Time , was published in 2018 under her real name Stephanie Schuster. A novel about the drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci , La Bella Principessa .

In 2020 the first part of the "Wunderfrauen" trilogy will appear, which takes place in their home on Lake Starnberg and begins in the 1950s and revolves around a corner shop .

Stephanie Wagner married in 1990 and is called Stephanie Schuster in civil life. She lives with her family in Pöcking on Lake Starnberg .

Works

As Rebecca Abe:

• The memory of the lie . Skalding Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940695-02-4 .
• In the Fugger's labyrinth . Gmeiner-Verlag 2011, revised new edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-8392-1144-1 .

Contribution to anthology in:

• 24 stories about winter time . Esslinger Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-480-22481-4 .
• A horse for me! . Coppenrath, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-8157-9690-0 .

As Stephanie Fey:

• The faceless ones . Forensic medicine thriller. Heyne-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-43586-5 .
• The silent ones . Forensic medicine thriller. Heyne-Verlag, February 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-40979-8 .
• The faces of the dead . Non-fiction. Lübbe-Verlag, February 2014, ISBN 978-3-7857-2492-7 .
• The torn . Forensic medicine thriller. Heyne-Verlag, February 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-41760-1 .

As Ida Ding :

• Chicken murder . Starnberger See-Krimi, Rowohlt-Verlag, February 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-22862-9 .
• Maiden voyage . Starnberger See-Krimi, Rowohlt-Verlag, April 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-26990-5 .

As Stephanie Schuster :

• The moment of time. Novel. Blessing Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-89667-569-9 .
• The wonder women . Part 1. Everything your heart desires. Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2020, ISBN 978-3-596-70032-5 .
• Milena and the letters of love . Novel. Structure TB, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-7466-3593-4 .

Awards

• 2012: She was the first author to receive the Discovered! - Amazon author price in the first quarter.
• 2013: Annual winner of the Discovered! Amazon Author Award.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rebecca Abe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal website as Stephanie Fey and Rebecca Abe
• Personal website as Ida Ding
• Stephanie Schuster's personal website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Press report Süddeutsche.de from April 26, 2015