Maren Friedlaender

Maren Friedlaender studied psychology and worked as a journalist, including for many years in the ZDF editorial department covering domestic politics. She also served for several years as a member of Cologne’s cultural affairs committee. Her experiences in journalism and politics informed crime novels such as “Berlin. Macht. Männer.”, “Die Macht am Rhein” (co-written with Olaf Müller), “Rheingolf”, “Schweigen über Köln”, and “Das Opern-Phantom”. She also published the novel “Der Löwe Gottes”, which draws on the history of her Jewish family and its emigration during the Nazi era.