Carlo Schäfer
{{short description|German crime writer}}
Karl Christoph "Carlo" Schäfer (2 January 1964 – 8 September 2015) was a German author of crime novels.{{cite web|url=http://www.rnz.de/kultur-tipps/kultur-regional_artikel,-Krimi-Autor-Carlo-Schaefer-starb-ueberraschend-im-Alter-von-51-Jahren-_arid,127231.html|title=Krimi-Autor Carlo Schäfer starb überraschend im Alter von 51 Jahren|work=rnz.de|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920150619/http://www.rnz.de/kultur-tipps/kultur-regional_artikel%2C-Krimi-Autor-Carlo-Schaefer-starb-ueberraschend-im-Alter-von-51-Jahren-_arid%2C127231.html|archivedate=2015-09-20}}
Life
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 ({{langx|de|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
- 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
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External links
- [http://www.carlo-schaefer.de/ Homepage von Carlo Schäfer]
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Category:Writers from Heidelberg