Silvia Götschi

Silvia Götschi (2013)

Silvia Maria Götschi (born March 20, 1958 in Stans ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Götschi is the daughter of a Swiss woman and a Swiss architect and painter . She lived in Kriens , Lucerne and Martigny , among others . She graduated from commercial vocational school before moving to Davos in 1979 . There she worked in the hotel industry and started her family in 1984.

After her first detective novel Mord im Parkhotel , which was published by the Literaturwerkstatt publishing house that she founded and runs, she wrote four crime novels about the cases of Lucerne investigator Thomas Kramer. In July 2013 she signed a contract with the German Emons Verlag . In 2014 she started a series of detective novels with the Davos law student Allegra Cadisch, and in 2015 another with the Schwyz police officer Valérie Lehmann as the protagonist . In 2018, Bürgenstock was the first crime thriller about the private detective Max von Wirth.

Silvia Götschi is married and has three sons and two daughters. She works as a publishing director and on the side in an advertising agency. She is a member of the Central Switzerland Writers' Association (ISSV), the Association of Authors of Switzerland (AdS) and the Syndicate and Murderous Sisters associations . Today she lives in Weggis .

Works

• And still not Olivia. Edition Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-89950-150-0 .
• Solar storm. Liebig, Frauenfeld 2009; Revised new edition: Literaturwerkstatt, Immensee 2015, ISBN 978-3-9524230-5-9 .
• The pigs lick the honey. Literaturwerkstatt, Küssnacht 2013, ISBN 978-3-9523927-6-8 .
• Emilia. A woman on her way to herself. Literature workshop, Immensee 2016, ISBN 978-3-9524230-6-6 .
• 111 places in the canton of Schwyz that you have to see. Emons, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7408-0116-8 .
• 111 places in Nidwalden that you have to see. Emons, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-7408-0566-1 .

Detective novels

• Murder in the Park Hotel. Literaturwerkstatt, Küssnacht 2010, ISBN 978-3-9523694-2-5 .
• The devil of Uri. Emons, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7408-0179-3 .
• Bürgenstock. Emons, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0413-8 .
• Engelberg. Emons, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-7408-0625-5 .

Thomas Kramer series:

• Angel finger. A case for Thomas Kramer. Literaturwerkstatt, Küssnacht 2011, ISBN 978-3-9523694-6-3 .
• Cinderella. Kramer's second case. Literaturwerkstatt, Küssnacht 2012, ISBN 978-3-9523927-2-0 .
• Bad luck for artists. Kramer's third case. Literaturwerkstatt, Küssnacht 2013, ISBN 978-3-9523927-7-5 .
• Riggeister. Kramer's fourth case. Literaturwerkstatt, Küssnacht 2014, ISBN 978-3-9524230-2-8 .

Allegra-Cadisch series:

• Jakobshorn. Emons, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-260-7 .
• Mattawald. Emons, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-482-3 .
• Bear kick. Emons, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-777-0 .

Valérie Lehmann series:

• Herrengasse. Emons, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-713-8 .
• Klaus hunter. Emons, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-988-0 .
• Muotathal. Emons, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7408-0053-6 .
• Einsiedeln. Emons, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0318-6 .
• Itlimoos. Emons, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-7408-0509-8 .
• Lauerzersee Emons, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-7408-0784-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Silvia Götschi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Silvia Götschi in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Website of Silvia Götschi
• Publishing house literature workshop