- Thea Dorn
Christiane Scherer (born
July 23 1970 ), better known as Thea Dorn, is a German writer ofcrime fiction and TV host. She lives and works in Berlin.Born in
Offenbach, Hesse , Dorn was initially trained as a singer, and later studiedphilosophy and theatrical sciences inFrankfurt andBerlin . She graduated ("Magistra") inphilosophy with a work onself-deception . She worked as scientific assistant at theFree University of Berlin , then asdramaturge and writer at theStaatstheater Hannover . Thea Dorn'spseudonym alludes toTheodor Adorno , whose works she read and found hard to understand. [http://www.theadorn.de/ (See the interview on Adorno.)] After receiving her M. A. in philosophy, she became a freelance writer.In 1995 she released her first book, "Berliner Aufklärung", for which she received the
Marlowe Prize . For her third book, "Die Hirnkönigin", she received the German Crime Fiction Prize 2000. The same year she wrote the theatrical piece "Marleni", a staged meeting ofMarlene Dietrich andLeni Riefenstahl . Thisdrama premiered onJanuary 15 2000 inHamburg at the "Deutsches Schauspielhaus".In 2003 she wrote the script to the episode "Der schwarze Troll" (lit. "The black troll") of the German TV series "
Tatort ". The next year, with the book "Die Brut", she left the genre of crime fiction and concentrated on characterisations of the milieu. {WP:OR}?Beginning with 2003 together with "Dirk Schümer" she was host of the TV show "Schümer und Dorn - Der Büchertalk", broadcasted by
Südwest-Rundfunk . Since 2004 she hosts the TV show "Literatur im Foyer", presenting new books and talking to writers.External links
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