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Die Winterprinzessin. Ein unheimlicher Roman um die Brüder Grimm.
1997
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Januar 1813. Am badischen Hof in Karlsruhe geraten die Brüder Grimm in eine bizarre Intrige. Eine Prinzessin aus Indien macht Jagd auf den neugeborenen Sohn des Herzogs – und die Grimms werden Zeugen von Mord und Erpressung. Dezember 1812. Wie ein Flüchtiger reist der vor Moskau geschlagene Napoleon durch Europa. In tiefer Nacht macht er in Weimar Station und sucht Goethe mit einem dringenden Anliegen auf … Wenige Tage später reisen die Brüder Grimm an den Hof zu Karlsruhe – mit einer Empfehlung Goethes in der Tasche. Der Herzog sucht einen Lehrer für sein neugeborenes Kind. Doch in Karlsruhe stoßen sie bald auf schaurige Warnungen. Wer drängt sie, von ihrem Auftrag abzulassen? Was hat es mit dem herzoglichen Sohn auf sich? Als die Brüder der Wahrheit auf den Grund gehen wollen, geraten sie selbst in tödliche Gefahr.
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Kai Meyer
Kai Meyer
Author · 59 books

With millions of books sold worldwide, Kai Meyer is one of Germany's most successful authors. His novels have been translated into 27 languages including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Chinese. Kai Meyer was born in 1969 in northern Germany. He began college at the University of Bochum, Germany, where he studied film, theatre, and philosophy. After a year, he dropped out to work for a newspaper as a trainee journalist, followed by two years as a staff journalist. Kai wrote his first novel in his early 20s, and it was published when he was just 24 years old. He has been a full-time novelist since 1995. To date, Kai has written nearly 50 books – some for adults, some for teenagers. Kai’s books are mostly historical with strong fantastical overtones. There are over 1.5 million Kai Meyer books in print in Germany, and he is quickly gaining popularity in other countries as well: THE WATER MIRROR went into its third US printing before it was even delivered to bookstores, and his young adult dark fantasy series SIEBEN SIEGEL is a substantial hit in Japan. The British edition of THE FLOWING QUEEN / THE WATER MIRROR won the 2007 Marsh Award for Best Children´s Book in Translation. In 2007 his historical novel DAS GELÜBDE (The Vow) was turned into a movie by celebrated German director Dominik Graf. SIEBEN SIEGEL is set to be filmed in 2008, other books are optioned. Kai has also written screenplays, two of which have been made into TV movies. He is the author of a hardcover comic book, PANDORAMICUM, and is one of the creators of the fantasy role-playing game ENGEL (US edition by White Wolf). Kai Meyer lives in Westphalia near the Rhine in Germany.

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