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Sample of authors
Deitmer, Sabine
The German author of crime novels Sabine Deitmar was born in Jena, Thüringen, and grew up in Düsseldorf. Deitmer became interested in crime fiction at an early age, and wrote her literature MA thesis on the work of Agatha Christie. After working as a teacher and translator in the UK, southern Germany and Berlin, she moved to the Ruhr district in the 1970s where she became a high school teacher. D...
Literary figures
Milena Proháska
Gender: Female
Her parents fled from Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the temperamental redhead Milena Proháska grew up in West Germany. She gained a qualification in Law and finally ended up in the security service Bundesnachrichtendienst. She has had a relationship with Detective Chief Inspector Jean Beringer, but that broke up, and according to author Doris Gercke, he then began to suspect that she was a ...