Cora Stephan (born 7 April 1951 in Strang

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, West Germany) is a German-speaking writer and essayist. As an author of

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she is known under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet. Stephan grew up in

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. 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 ...

(Germany). Having studied in Hamburg and 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

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a 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 wealt ...

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

(Germany). From 1985 to 1987 she worked as a journalist in the Bonn office of the German news magazine ''

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''. Today Cora Stephan lives in

Mücke Mücke is a municipality in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Mücke lies from 200 to 350 m above sea level in the northwest foothills of the Vogelsberg Mountains on the upper reaches of the river Ohm, a tributary to the ...

near Frankfurt (Germany) and

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(France). Under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet she was awarded the ''

Deutscher Krimi Preis The Deutscher Krimi Preis, or the ''German Crime Fiction Award'', is the oldest and most prestigious German literary prize for crime fiction. It has been awarded since 1985 by the Bochum Crime Archive. Unlike the Friedrich Glauser Prize, which is a ...

'' 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Stephan, Cora German crime writers Living people 1951 births Writers from Osnabrück Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt Der Spiegel people Hessischer Rundfunk people