Karl Christoph

Karl Christoph "Carlo" Schäfer (2 January 1964 – 8 September 2015) was a German author of crime novels.[1]

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 (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

  • 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

  1. ↑ "Krimi-Autor Carlo Schäfer starb überraschend im Alter von 51 Jahren". rnz.de. Archived from the original on 2015-09-20.
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