Effective period / Period of releases: 2007

Andrea Maria Schenkel, born in 1962, is considered one of Germany's most renowned crime writers. Her debut Tannöd was published in 2006 - a surprise success that caused a sensation: the novel was awarded the German Crime Fiction Prize, the Friedrich Glauser Prize and the Martin Beck Award, the Swedish crime fiction prize for the best international crime novel. The initial print run was 1000 copies - the novel sold over a million copies, was translated into twenty languages and was made into a movie. For her second book Kalteis (2007), Schenkel received the German Crime Fiction Prize for the second time in a row. Her most recent books are Bunker (2009), Finsterau (2012), Täuscher (2013), Als die Liebe endlich war (2016), her first novel outside the crime genre, and Der Erdspiegel (2023). Schenkel has three grown-up children and lives in Regensburg and in Larchmont, a suburb of New York. After completing her master's degree, she is currently a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in Comparative Literature. As part of her training, she teaches at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. Andrea Maria Schenkel not only writes novels, but also regularly contributes to ZEIT Verbrechen.