Sabine Weigand

Sabine Weigand (born June 11, 1961 in Nuremberg ) is a German writer , historian and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). Her novels take up biographies and themes from the Middle Ages .

Life

Weigand grew up in the Gibitzenhof district of Nuremberg . She did her Abitur at the Sigena-Gymnasium . She studied history, English and American studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . After master's degree and state examination, she did her doctorate in Bavarian regional history at the University of Bayreuth in 1992 and then worked as a research assistant at the Schwabach City Museum .

Following on from her first work The Margravine (2004 - setting: the Plassenburg ), all subsequent novels made it into the bestseller lists immediately. Weigand was a member of the historical novel Quo Vadis , which disbanded in 2014.

In 2008 she was elected to the city council for the Greens . In 2018 she ran for the Bavarian state election for the party in the Nuremberg-South constituency and was elected to the state parliament via the district list of the Greens.

Weigand has lived in Schwabach since 1989 and is chairman of the local history and homeland association. She has a son (* 1992).

Works

In addition to short stories and various historical specialist literature such as the Historical City Lexicon Schwabach , the historical novels were published:

• The margravine . 2004, ISBN 3-8105-2365-8 (source: The life of Barbara von Brandenburg )
• The pearl medallion . 2005, ISBN 3-8105-2660-6 (Original: The life of Dorothea Landauer )
• The royal lady . 2007, ISBN 978-3-8105-2662-5 (template: The life of Fatma Kariman )
• The souls in the fire . 2008, ISBN 978-3-8105-2663-2
• The silver castle . 2010, ISBN 978-3-8105-2664-9
• The gates of heaven . 2012, ISBN 978-3-8105-2665-6 (about Elisabeth of Thuringia )
• The Queen's Book . 2014, ISBN 978-3-8105-2666-3
• I, Eleanor, queen of two realms . 2015, ISBN 978-3-8105-2257-3 (about Eleanor of Aquitaine )
• Helga . 2016, ISBN 978-3-8105-2525-3
• The manufacture of fragrances . 2018, ISBN 978-3-8105-2532-1
• The English princess: between glamor and rebellion . 2019, ISBN 978-3-8105-3059-2 (about Daisy von Pless )

Film adaptations

In September 2013 filming began on The Souls in Fire , a commissioned production by ZDF and ORF , which ZDF first broadcast on March 2, 2015.

Awards

• 2006 Culture Meter , award from the city of Schwabach
• 2013 Wolfram-von-Eschenbach-Förderpreis
• 2015 Silver Homer in the Biography category for The Queen's Book
• 2018 winner of the IHK culture prize of the Central Franconian economy in the literature section

Web links

• Literature by and about Sabine Weigand in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sabine Weigand in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Author page "Historical Novels" ( Memento from November 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Author page Fischerverlage
• Historical city dictionary Schwabach
• Biography. Bavarian State Parliament.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jo Seuss: Everyone should feel at home here. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten of August 21, 2018, p. 11.