Cora Stephan

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 she is known under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet.

Stephan grew up in Osnabrück (Germany). Having studied at the University of Hamburg and Goethe University Frankfurt 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 in Frankfurt (Germany).

From 1985 to 1987 she worked as a journalist in the Bonn office of the German news magazine Der Spiegel.

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 Stephan contains articles by Cora Stephan, a short autobiography and a bibliography
Anne Chaplet contains, amongst other useful information, a detailed bibliography and numerous photos