Cora Stephan (born 7 April 1951 in Strang
Bad Rothenfelde, West Germany) is a German-speaking writer and essayist.
As an author of
crime fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professiona ...
she is known under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet.
Stephan grew up in
Osnabrück
Osnabrück (; ; archaic English: ''Osnaburg'') is a city in Lower Saxony in western Germany. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population of 168 ...
(Germany). Having studied at the
University of Hamburg
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and
Goethe University Frankfurt
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she graduated as a teacher in 1973 and took her PhD in 1976 with a thesis on the History of German Social-Democracy in the 19th Century.
From 1976 to 1984 she taught at the
Goethe University Frankfurt
Goethe University Frankfurt () is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt ...
in
Frankfurt
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(Germany).
From 1985 to 1987 she worked as a journalist in the Bonn office of the German news magazine ''
Der Spiegel
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''.
Today Cora Stephan lives in
Mücke near Frankfurt (Germany) and
Laurac-en-Vivarais (France). Under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet she was awarded the ''
Deutscher Krimi Preis'' twice (in 2001 and 2004) and received ''Radio Bremen Krimipreis'' in 2003.
Books
Essays by Cora Stephan
* 1992 ''Wir Kollaborateure''
* 1993 ''Der Betroffenheitskult''
* 1995 ''Neue deutsche Etikette''
* 1998 ''Das Handwerk des Krieges''
Novels by Anne Chaplet
* 1998 ''Caruso singt nicht mehr''
* 1999 ''Wasser zu Wein''
* 2000 ''Nichts als die Wahrheit''
* 2002 ''Die Fotografin''
* 2003 ''Schneesterben''
* 2004 ''Russisch Blut''
* 2006 ''Sauberer Abgang''
* 2007 ''Doppelte Schuld''
* 2008 ''Schrei nach Stille''
External links
Websites in German
Cora Stephancontains articles by Cora Stephan, a short autobiography and a bibliography
Anne Chapletcontains, amongst other useful information, a detailed bibliography and numerous photos
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German crime writers
German crime fiction writers
Living people
1951 births
Writers from Osnabrück
Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt
Der Spiegel people
Hessischer Rundfunk people
University of Hamburg alumni
Goethe University Frankfurt alumni