Andrea Maria Schenkel
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Andrea Maria Schenkel (* 1962 in Regensburg) is a german writer. She published her debut novel "Tannöd" in 2006.
Based on the Hinterkaifeck murder in the 1920s, Schenkel’s fictional account takes place in the 1950s. She describes, in ghastly and suspenseful detail, how a small Bavarian village, called Tannöd, became the unlikely site of a horrific crime.
In her novel a whole family - the farmer, his wife and children, the maidservants and farm labors - are all killed in one night.
Nobody had liked the farmer, they had been unfriendly, avaricious, and crabby. But now after the outrage, fear dominates life in the village. Nobody knows the murder. Slowly, anxious, shocked gives every witness his statement. Speculations, assumptions about the case are described direct, merciless, and impressive.
With her debut novel, Andrea Schenkel present not only thrilling crime and fiction. She draws also pilessly the portraits of a bigot and unromantic rural society influenced by traumatic relations, which led finally to death.
More than 120.000 copies were sold in Germany· Foreign rights are sold to France (Actes Sud), Italy (Riuniti), The Netherlands (Signature), Norway and Denmark· Also film option rights are still sold.
Her first novel won the "Deutsche Krimi-Preis" (german award for crime literature) in the category "best national crime novel 2007".
Andrea Maria Schenkel is currently working on her second novel, which focuses on a serial killer in 1930s Germany, and which will be published in autumn 2007.
The writer Andrea Maria Schenkel lives with her family near Regensburg.
