Carlo Schäfer Explained

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

External links

• Homepage von Carlo Schäfer

Notes and References

1. Web site: Krimi-Autor Carlo Schäfer starb überraschend im Alter von 51 Jahren. rnz.de. dead. 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. 2015-09-20.