Till Raether

Till Raether, born in 1969, grew up in Berlin and attended the German School of Journalism in Munich. He studied American studies and history in Berlin and New Orleans, and worked as a magazine journalist and as deputy editor-in-chief of »Brigitte«. Raether has published crime novels and literary fiction. He is known in particular for his crime novels featuring Hamburg detective Adam Danowski, which were nominated several times for the Friedrich Glauser Prize; »Blutapfel« was adapted for ZDF with Milan Peschel in the leading role. His essay »Bin ich schon depressiv, oder ist das noch das Leben?« spent several weeks on the SPIEGEL bestseller list in 2021. His novel »Die Architektin« received the Hamburg Literature Prize for Book of the Year.