Best-selling German crime novelist Andrea Maria Schenkel will read from her new book, Kalteis (Nautilus, 2007), on Fri., Oct. 12, 7:00 p.m. at New York University s Deutsches Haus (42 Washington Mews at University Place). The reading will be in German and English.
Best-selling German crime novelist Andrea Maria Schenkel will read from her new book, Kalteis (Nautilus, 2007), on Fri., Oct. 12, 7:00 p.m. at New York Universitys Deutsches Haus (42 Washington Mews at University Place). The reading will be in German and English.
Schenkels first book, Tannöd (Nautilis, 2006), is based on the unsolved real-life murder of a farm family in the 1920s. She describes, in ghastly and suspenseful detail, how a small Bavarian village became the unlikely site of a horrific crime. Der Spiegel wrote the debut novel is as dark as it is successful, and Germanys Vanity Fair profiled Schenkel in July, noting Tannöds meteoric rise on the countrys best-seller lists.
Her second work, Kalteis, is set in Munich at the end of the 1930s where female bodies keep surfacing around the city and the circumstantial evidence points to an unassuming and married Joseph Kalteis. Kalteis shows Schenkels success with Tannöd was not a coincidence, one critic writes. With her collage of witness records, interrogating fragments, and scenes, again based on a real case, she has her own way of crime novel writing: refined, gripping, cleverly composed, with courage for breaks and silence.
- WHO: Andrea Maria Schenkel
- WHAT: Reading-Kalteis
- WHEN: Fri., Oct. 12, 7:00 p.m.
- WHERE: NYUs Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews (at University Place) [Subway Lines: Subway Lines: N, R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place)]
The event is free and open to the public. Please call 212.998.8663 for more information. Reporters interested in attending the event should contact James Devitt, NYUs Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu. For more information on Schenkel, go to www.andreamariaschenkel.de (click International for English language text).