Sabine Ebert

Book premiere of Sword and Crown - The Young Falcon (2017)

Sabine Ebert (* 1958 in Aschersleben , Halle district , GDR ) is a German journalist and novelist .

Life

Sabine Ebert grew up in Berlin . She completed her journalistic traineeship in Magdeburg and studied Latin America and linguistics in Rostock .

In her adopted home Freiberg / Saxony, she co-founded the city's first independent newspaper in 1990, and headed its editorial office for several years. From 1995 she worked as a freelancer for daily newspapers, television and radio and also published a number of non-fiction books on the history of Freiberg, including the Freiberg Yearbook (1991-2006), which summarizes the most important regional events of the year.

In 2006, Sabine Ebert's debut novel was published by Knaur-Verlag, The Secret of the Midwife , the prelude to a five-volume saga about the migrations of settlers to the East and the first silver finds in the Ore Mountains at the time of Barbarossa , with Hedwig von Meißen and the Wettin family as the main characters. There are four sequels so far. Overall, the books are said to have sold over 2.5 million times.

In 2013, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Leipzig Battle of the Nations, the novel 1813 - War Fire was published . The sequel 1815 - Blood Peace (2015) deals with the time immediately after the Battle of Nations up to the Congress of Vienna and the Battle of Waterloo .

Her novel Sword and Crown - Masters of Deception was published at the beginning of 2017 as the prelude to a series of novels about the power struggles of the individual German royal houses in the 12th century and the rise of Friedrich Barbarossa . Volume 2, Sword and Crown - The Young Falcon , was published on November 2, 2017.

All published her historical novels stood for weeks on the mirror - bestseller lists . Your books have sold 3.5 million copies so far. Some have been translated into several languages, including Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Lithuanian.

Sabine Ebert's debut novel The Secret of the Midwife was filmed (Director: Roland Suso Richter ) and broadcast on Good Friday 2016 by ARD. The material was also used for a play (director: Odette Bereska ) for the Saxony State Theater on the Rathen rock stage . The world premiere took place on June 8, 2018.

Sabine Ebert has lived in Dresden since November 2018 , after previously living in Leipzig .

Awards

• 2009 LovelyBooks Readers Award in the Historical Novel category for Blood and Silver

Works

Midwives series

• The midwife's secret . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-426-63412-7 .
• The midwife's trail . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-63695-4 .
• The midwife's decision . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-63835-4 .
• The midwife's curse . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-50606-6 .
• The midwife's dream . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-63837-8 .

Sword and crown series

• Sword and Crown - Masters of Deception. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-65412-5 .
• Sword and Crown - The Young Falcon. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-65413-2 .
• Sword and crown - time of betrayal. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-65445-3 .
• Sword and crown - heart of stone. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-426-22662-9

Other novels

• Blood and silver. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-66288-5 .
• 1813 - war fire. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-65214-5 .
• 1815 - Blood Peace. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-426-65272-5 .

Web links

Commons : Sabine Ebert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Sabine Ebert
• Sabine Ebert . In: LovelyBooks.de
• Sabine Ebert in portrait . In: Droemer-Knaur.de
• Literature by and about Sabine Ebert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Successful author Ebert tells the story of the Battle of Nations , sz-online.de
2. ↑ Sabine Ebert with a new novel: Barbarossa and his way to power. In: lvz.de. February 25, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017 . 
3. ^ "Rotbart" Barbarossa - the new hero of bestselling author Sabine Ebert. In: lvz.de. October 31, 2017, accessed November 3, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Pia Lucchesi: This bestselling author now lives in Dresden! In: Tag24.de. November 18, 2018, accessed November 25, 2018 .