Stephan Rother

Magister Rother

Stephan Manfred Rother (artist names : Magister Rother , Stephan M. Rother and Benjamin Monferat ; born October 27, 1968 in Wittingen ) is a German historian , writer and comedian .

life and work

In 1988 Rother began studying Middle and Modern History , Art History and German Philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , and in 1997 he graduated as a Magister Artium (MA) in the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences .

During his studies he worked as a freelancer in the regional press in East Lower Saxony. As a historian, he wrote various articles on regional historical topics. Since the mid-1990s, Rother has written a series of non-fiction articles for history and role-playing magazines such as Karfunkel , pax et gaudium , LARPZeit and Mystic & Entertainment .

From 1993 to 2008 Rother worked as a historical cabaret artist Magister Rother . He has been active as a writer since 2000. His greatest successes include the crime thriller around Hamburg investigators Jörg Albrecht and Hannah Friedrichs, as well as the title Welt in Flammen , published under the pseudonym Benjamin Monferat .

Rother is married and lives in Bad Bodenteich .

Awards

• 2008: Honorary gift of the soil pond
• 2014: Historikus on histo-couch.de, September 2014

Publications

Novels

Single novels

• The eagle of the morning. A medieval mystery thriller Karfunkel-Verlag, Wald-Michelbach 2000. ISBN 978-3980564267 .
• The way to Altamura. A medieval mystery thriller Zauberfeder-Verlag, Braunschweig 2005. ISBN 978-3-938922-02-6 .
• The last revelation , Blanvalet-Verlag, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-4423-7115-0 .
• The Babylon Virus Blanvalet-Verlag, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-442-37443-4 .
• Sturmwelle Blanvalet-Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-442-37758-9 .

Books for children and young readers

• The Secret of Dorian Grave. More than you should know Baumhaus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8339-3626-5 .
• The Curse of Dorian Grave. More than you should know Bastei-Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, 2009. ISBN 978-3-8339-3628-9 .
• The coat of the winds Baumhaus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009. ISBN 978-3833-93627-2 .
• Der Stein des Raben cbj-Verlag, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-5702-2110-5 .
• The prophecy of the magical stone Thienemann-Verlag, Stuttgart 2018. ISBN 978-3-522-20244-2 .

Chief Inspector Jörg Albrecht determined

• I am the master of your fear (Volume 1). Rowohlt-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-499-25869-5 .
• Open your soul (Volume 2). Rowohlt-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-499-25986-9 .
• A grave with your name on it (Volume 3). Rowohlt-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-499-26797-0 .

Contemporary historical novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Monferat

• World in Flames Wunderlich-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-8052-5069-6 .
• The Tower of the World Wunderlich-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-8052-5093-1 .

The royal chronicles

• A ring of iron (Volume 1). Rowohlt Polaris, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-499-27356-8 .
• A circlet of bronze (Volume 2). Rowohlt Polaris, Reinbek near Hamburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-499-40357-6 .
• A circlet of silver and gold (Volume 3). Rowohlt Polaris, Reinbek near Hamburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-499-27406-0 .

Other publications

• Two Wittingen noblemen as spiritual dignitaries in Halberstadt In: Landkreis Gifhorn (Hrsg.): Kreiskalender 2000 Gifhorn Heimatbuch . Size Oesingen: Harms 1999. ISBN 3-929632-45-4 .
• The knights of Bodenteich and their castle In: Publication of the Förderkreis Burg Bad Bodenteich, 2001. ISSN  1617-3791
• Legacy of the Knights Templar online version

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan M. Rother: Hexewwahn. The history of witches in German-speaking countries . In: Mystic & Entertainment , No. 3, 2005, pp. 8-10.
2. ^ Stephan M. Rother: Templer . In: LARPZeit , No. 2, 2003, pp. 8–12.
3. ↑ "A historian falls for magic" , report and interview in the magazine "chronico", April 7, 2006, accessed on July 30, 2017; A "best of" as a farewell . Report in "Uelzener Anzeiger", October 19, 2008, p. 5.
4. ↑ buchreport.de bestseller placements on I am the Lord of Your Fear , accessed on July 30, 2017.
5. ↑ buchreport.de Bestseller placements on World in Flames , accessed on July 30, 2017.
6. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung der Lüneburger Heide, October 31, 2008, p. 29.
7. ^ Archives of the Historikus Award, September 2014 , accessed on July 30, 2017.
8. ^ Publisher's website on World in Flames , accessed December 30, 2014.
9. ↑ Publisher's website for Der Turm der Welt , accessed on July 30, 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephan Rother in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official homepage of the artist
• Stephan Rother on phantastik-couch.de
• Interview with Stephan M. Rother on buchkarriere.de