Thea Dorn (pseudonym; Christiane Scherer, born 23 July 1970) is a
German writer of crime fiction and TV host. She lives and works in
Berlin.Born in Offenbach am Main, Dorn was initially trained as a
singer, and later studied philosophy and theatrical sciences in
Frankfurt and Berlin. She graduated (Magistra) in philosophy with a
work on self-deception. She worked as scientific assistant at the Free
University of Berlin, then as dramaturge and writer at the
Staatstheater Hannover. Thea Dorn's pseudonym alludes to Theodor
Adorno, whose works she read and found hard to understand. (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 of Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl.
This drama premiered on 15 January 2000 in Hamburg 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}?
German writer of crime fiction and TV host. She lives and works in
Berlin.Born in Offenbach am Main, Dorn was initially trained as a
singer, and later studied philosophy and theatrical sciences in
Frankfurt and Berlin. She graduated (Magistra) in philosophy with a
work on self-deception. She worked as scientific assistant at the Free
University of Berlin, then as dramaturge and writer at the
Staatstheater Hannover. Thea Dorn's pseudonym alludes to Theodor
Adorno, whose works she read and found hard to understand. (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 of Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl.
This drama premiered on 15 January 2000 in Hamburg 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}?
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