Tessa Korber

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Tessa Korber

Tessa Korber (born June 23, 1966 in Grünstadt , Palatinate) is a German writer and bestselling author .

Life

Tessa Korber has lived in Franconia since she was four and attended elementary school and the modern-language grammar school in Forchheim . After graduating from high school, she studied modern German literature, modern history and communication studies. In 1997 she did her doctorate at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg summa cum laude with a thesis on "Technological experience and technology as a motif in early modern literature". Tessa Korber worked in publishing and bookshops, as an advertising copywriter and lecturer.

Since her bestseller success Die Karawanenkönigin she has been a freelance writer and has become known as the author of extensively researched historical novels and thrillers . She created the crime series around Jeannette Dürer , the plot of which is mainly in the area around the city triangle of Nuremberg / Fürth / Erlangen . With this series she is considered a co-founder of the Franconian regional crime novel . Your current novels, however, are regional. The two funeral thrillers Murdered Always and To Die Beautiful are only superficially located in the metropolitan region of Nuremberg.

Korber writes under various pseudonyms ( Franka Villette , Sophia Palmer , Charlotte Winter ). She has also published fantasy novels under the pseudonyms Alice Braga and Serena David . Her works have been translated into Spanish, Czech and Turkish, among others. In 2010, Korber was awarded the Forchheim Culture Prize. In addition to her writing activities, the author is also active as an editor of anthologies.

During her television appearances in the Kölner Treff and in the night café in 2012, Korber reported on the life with her autistic son Simon. She also dealt with this topic in her book I don't love you, but I want to be able to do it sometime .

From 2012 Korber was married to the author Christian Klier , with whom she collaborated on the crime novel backbreaking job and the time travel thriller JACK (under a pseudonym). After the separation, she has been married to the German writer Elmar Tannert since 2020 .

Works

Historical novels

  • The Caravan Queen , 1998
  • The Empress , 2000
  • The Emperor's Medicus , 2001
  • Berenike , 2003
  • The Queen of Sheba , 2005
  • The maid and the queen , 2007
  • The Guardian , 2008
  • The Serpent's Legacy , 2009 (continued from The Guardian )
  • The last song of the troubadour , 2012

Crime series in the Nuremberg area

  • Blind Spot , 2000
  • Deep Shadows , 2001
  • False Angels , 2003
  • Sad tones , 2004
  • Cold Hearts , 2005
  • Expensive fun , 2007

More crime novels

  • Life is murderous , 2010
  • Death butterfly , 2011
  • There is always murder , 2012
  • The clean men , 2013
  • Beautiful to die for , 2014
  • (with Christian Klier) Back-breaking job , 2016
  • The cats of Montmartre , 2016

Novels under a pseudonym

  • The Viking's Wife (Franka Villette), 2004
  • The Village of Mothers (Franka Villette), 2005
  • Daughter of Odin (Franka Villette), 2006
  • The Mistress of the Jugglers (Sophia Palmer), 2005
  • The Lady of the Horses (Charlotte Winter), 2009
  • The Village of Immortals (Alice Braga), 2008
  • Sea daughter (Serena David), 2011
  • (with Christian Klier) JACK

Non-fiction

  • I don't love you, but I want to be able to do it in 2012

Stories and contributions

  • In the circle of my loved ones , narration in: Weiberweihnacht. Adorable Stories about the Festival , 2003
  • The Seven Heads (Chapters 9 and 10), 2004
  • The Twelfth Day (Chapters 9 and 10), 2006
  • The Third Sword (Chapters 21 and 22), 2008
  • Old stories , narration in: Tatort Franken , ars vivendi 2009
  • Time of grace , narration in: Das Steinerne Auge , 2009
  • Der Pelzmärtelmörder , short story in: Der Pelzmärtelmörder , 2010
  • Schneewandern , story in: Kaltestarre , 2011
  • Das Loch , story in: Tatort Franken 2 , ars vivendi 2011
  • A sad case , story in: Tatort Franken 3 , ars vivendi 2012
  • Schneeweißchen und Rosentod , story in: Tatort Garten , 2012
  • Everything will be fine , narration in: Mordsappetit , 2012
  • Self-Justice , narration in: Geigen, Gauner, Griegeniffte , 2013
  • (with Christian Klier) The wedding night , story in: Tatort Franken 4 , ars vivendi 2013
  • Johnny Walker leaves , narrated in: Scotch as Scotch can , 2013
  • Breathing exercise , narration in: Leiche sucht Autor , 2013
  • The Christmas bottle , story in: Christkindlesmorde , 2013
  • At the moment , story in: Kirchweihleichen , 2015
  • Mirror images , narration in: Tatort Franken 5 , ars vivendi 2015

Editorships

  • Nasty provincial murders , 2011
  • Death comes on quiet paws , 2013

Awards

  • 2010: Forchheim Culture Prize Triton

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ official document: Nuremberg registry office, marriage certificate E 810/2020.
  2. ^ Udo Güldner: Mathias Wehr: Forchheims new culture award winner. In: North Bavarian News . November 5, 2017, archived from the original on November 5, 2017 ; accessed on March 20, 2020 (German, award winner and year in caption).
personal data
SURNAME Korber, Tessa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korber, Tessy; Klier, Tessy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt , Palatinate, Germany