Carlo Schäfer
Karl Christoph "Carlo" Schäfer (2 January 1964 – 8 September 2015) was a German author of crime novels.[1]
Life[edit]
Carlo Schäfer was born in Heidelberg. He grew up as the youngest of three children in Pforzheim in Germany, his father was a Protestant priest there. After leaving school, Schäfer studied German at the University of Heidelberg, but he soon changed to studying at the Heidelberg University of Education (German: Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg). After studying, he worked for ten years as a secondary school teacher in Mannheim. Since 2003 Schäfer has been a lecturer at the Heidelberg University of Education (Institute for German language and literature and its didactics).
Schäfer was also a musician and cabaret performer. From 2002 he has been widely known as a crime author.
His protagonist, Detective Theurer, is a brooding, disillusioned man in his mid-fifties. He died in Heidelberg in 2015.
Bibliography[edit]
- Im falschen Licht 2002
- Der Keltenkreis 2003
- Das Opferlamm 2004
- Silberrücken 2006
- Schlusslicht 2007 (Der letzte Band der Reihe)
Novels that do not take place in Heidelberg:
- Kinder und Wölfe 2007
- Schattendasein (Jugendkrimi) 2010
- Verdachtsmomente (Zweiter Band der Jugendreihe) 2010
References[edit]
- ^ "Krimi-Autor Carlo Schäfer starb überraschend im Alter von 51 Jahren". rnz.de. Archived from the original on 2015-09-20.
External links[edit]
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
