Geheimagent Marlowe

Elizabethan England: the writer Christopher Marlowe is recruited by the secret service to report on enemy activities in France. Provided with a false identity and a letter of credit written in invisible ink, he is sent to Paris. But after bar brawls and amorous adventures, his cover is soon blown and he becomes a double agent. Back in England, he faces liquidation for high treason. He hopes to stage his death, flee to Ireland and write plays undercover – but will his cunning plan succeed?

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  • Publisher: FISCHER Taschenbuch
  • Release: 01.11.2008
  • ISBN: 978-3-596-17535-2
  • 272 Pages
  • Author: Dieter Kühn
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Dieter Kühn

Dieter Kühn, born 1935 in Cologne, died in Brühl in 2015. His biographies, novels, stories, audio plays and critically acclaimed translations from Middle High German (the Medieval Quartet ) earned him many awards, including the Herman Hesse Prize, the High Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Arts, and most recently the Carl Zuckmayer Medal. His works range from vast biographies (of Clara Schumann, Maria Sibylla Merian, Gertrud Kolmar, and perhaps most famously Oswald von Wolkenstein) and novels ( Geheimagent Marlowe ) to historical-biographical studies ( Schillers Schreibtisch in Buchenwald ) and volumes of stories ( Ich war Hitlers Schutzengel ). He most recently published two autobiographical volumes, Das magische Auge and Die siebte Woge .