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Barbara Büchner deals in fantasy and horror. Her stories are narrated in the Gothic tradition, but transposed to modern-day settings. Shadowy cemeteries, dark catacombs and gloomy houses contribute to an atmosphere of eeriness that is seasoned with love, eroticism, humour and a tinge of reflectiveness. Born in 1950, Barbara Büchner works as a freelance novelist and journalist in her home city of Vienna. She has written fifty books to date, including fantasy, horror and crime, as well as children’s books and non-fiction. Her work has been published by Rowohlt, Piper, Heyne and Ueberreuter. Her latest novel, Der Pestarzt (‘The Plague Doctor’), is set during an outbreak of the plague in nineteenth-century Vienna. She is an author of wide-ranging talents who has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Austrian State Prize for her journalistic writings.
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Hurrikan
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The Heretic's Wife
Volume II of the trilogy God Knows Their Names)
Salzburg, 1728: peace reigns between Catholics and Protestants but the calm is deceptive. Many Protestants are too afraid to profess their faith and the situation worsens when Archbishop Firmian, a fanatical Catholic, promises to rid the land of Protestants. Together with the Jesuits, he plots to frame innocent farmers as dissidents and run them off their land. For the Wagenreiter family, things are about to get difficult, for the father is Catholic and his children are protestant. Family ties and religious devotion will be put to the test…
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The Plague Doctor
Vienna, 1898: A team of ambitious doctors is working in secrecy on a bacterium imported from India that is known to cause the plague. Unfortunately for them, news of the risky undertaking leaks out, as does the bacterium itself. Dr Hermann Müller and his team of doctors devote themselves selflessly to the afflicted and are determined to defy the ‘demonic’ plague. But this is a race against time, and the city is starting to panic…
- HC: Brendow 2005
- Sold to: The Netherlands (Uitgeverij De Banier)
- Filmoption: LE VISION Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH
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Das Hotel Agarthi
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Kopfkönig
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Herz im Stein
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Blaubarts Schloss
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Liebhaber des Todes
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Die toten Weiber von Wien
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Morde unterm Mikroskop
Mit der Wissenschaft auf Verbrecherjagd
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