In English

I am a thriller writer, also teaching creative writing, mainly for children and adolescents, writing for the sciences and autobiography. Crimefiction has always been my favorite genre, but I appreciate poetry, biography and short stories, too. My carrier as a writer started after I had left University, where I worked for more than 10 years as a PhD and a University lecturer, teaching students the secrets of Universal Grammar and preposition stranding and so forth. So I've dealt with German, French and Italian language and linguistics for quite a long time. Then I felt I needed a somewhat more creative, playful thing to do. For all my life I have called a broad and sometimes fanciful and frisky imagination my own. Therefore I have always been a writer - not writing for the public, but for myself. In 2000, I decided to start writing for being published. I wrote lots of short stories, most of them crime fiction again, and one of them is translated into English (Death of a Fish Concessionaire. In: Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine. The World’s Leading Mystery Magazine. Translation: Mary W. Tannert. December 2009. P. 58-64.) 
My first book series is set in the German town of Bamberg, where I studied and worked at University. The main character is a private investigator (a woman), who solves all in all eight cases. After that, I wanted a change again and convinced my publisher to go for a new series with a ghostwriter (again a woman) as main character. These books (the fourth volume came out in July 2010) in the Bavarian capital of Munich and its surroundings. Meanwhile I also write crimefiction for children and adolescents, the first novel will be published in autumn 2010. I love presenting my books and reading on literature festivals or in restaurants, pubs and schools; it is wonderful to get into contact with my readers and to chat about the books and the characters, as if they were real persons we know from our neighbourhood.
Besides, I love tap dancing and travelling.
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Reading night in Miesbach, Bavaria.