''Tannöd'' is a novel by German author

Andrea Maria Schenkel Andrea Maria Schenkel (born 21 March 1962 in Regensburg, West Germany) is a German writer. She received the Corine Literature Prize (2007). Biography She published her debut novel '' Tannöd'' in 2006. Based on the Hinterkaifeck murder in th ...

. It was first published in Germany in January 2006 and was adapted for film in 2009.

The novel narrates the story of a multiple murder at an isolated Bavarian farm called Tannöd in the 1950s. The points of view of the victims, the witnesses, and the perpetrator are intertwined in 39 short passages. Through these largely separate testimonies, the reader gradually builds a complete picture of the events that lead a rural family, headed by a tyrannical, abusive father to all be brutally murdered.

Background

The novel is based on the unsolved murder of an entire family in 1922 on the farmstead Hinterkaifeck, Bavaria.

Adaptations

A film adaptation of the novel with the same title ''Tannöd'' was released in cinemas in Germany on 19 November 2009, directed by Bettina Oberli (Wüste-Film West) and starring

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, Monica Bleibtreu, and

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Awards

* ''2007'':

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 ...

, Friedrich Glauser Prize * ''2008'': Swedish Crime Fiction Prize * ''Audiobook'': CORINE-Weltbild-Leserpreis

Publication history

By May 2009 one million copies had been sold of the novel ''Tannöd''.Information on ''Tannöd''
on Andrea Maria Schenkel's homepage. The English translation of the novel was released by Quercus Publishing on 5 June 2008. The title is ''The Murder Farm''. Quercus released a paperback edition of ''The Murder Farm'' on 26 December 2008.

Bibliography

* Andrea Maria Schenkel: ''Tannöd'', Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2006, * Andrea Maria Schenkel: ''Tannöd'', btb, Munich 2008,

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