Karl Christoph "Carlo" Schäfer (2 January 1964 – 8 September 2015) was a German

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of crime novels.

Life

Carlo Schäfer was born in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; ; ) is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fifth-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of studen ...

. 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 Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public university, public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is List ...

, but he soon changed to studying at the Heidelberg University of Education (). After studying, he worked for ten years as a secondary school teacher in

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (), is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, second-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, the States of Ger ...

. 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

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

External links

Homepage von Carlo Schäfer
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schafer, Carlo German crime writers Writers from Heidelberg 1964 births 2015 deaths Heidelberg University alumni German male writers