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So excited that my Rowohlt Verlag novel “Das Rätsel von Ainsley Castle” was chosen as one of ten novels to be presented in March with “Books at Berlinale,” an event sponsored by the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival with the Frankfurt Book Fair. It offers publishers and agents the chance to pitch their books to internationally established film producers. The working title for the film adaptation of my book is “Double Puzzle.” More information behind the link.
My home office online reading season has begun! I'm happy to read to you and your classes in English or German or both. Send me an email to info@holly-jane-rahlens.com . Can't wait to hear from you! Wallflower (8th-13th grades and adults) Whispering Leaves (5th-8th grades); English unpublished Silence of Snow (5th-8th grades); English unpublished The Mystery of Ainsley Castle (5th-8th grades); English unpublished
I’m thrilled to be this year’s recipient of the German Children’s Radio Drama Award for “Stella Menzel and the Golden Thread” (rbb/NDR) with many thanks to the award’s sponsors, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the ARD Radio network.
The photo shows us in the rbb-studio in July 2019 during a break. We see Theresa Zertani (left), who played Stella, Leslie Malton (right) Stella’s mother, Isabel Zwickel-Menzel, and yours truly (middle) who was cast as Stella’s Oma from America, Josephine. (Me? A grandmother? Yikes!) The photo is a little out of focus. And do you know why? Director Leonhard Koppelmann’s hands were shaky because he just couldn’t wait to get a bite of the cake, a surprise from the folks over at Ohrenbär (rbbKultur). Many thanks to the baker, Birgit Patzelt, and producer, Sonja Kessen. They were all a part of this wonderful production and I am deeply grateful to them!
I am thrilled to report that my novel “The Mystery of Ainsley Castle” has been awarded two more book awards this fall: the LEKTORIX, awarded by the Austrian weekly magazine “Die Furche,” the Institut für Jugendkultur and the STUBE-Vienna. Equally wonderful: “The Mystery of Ainsley Castle” was named Children's Book-of-the-Month October by the German Academy for Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Volkach, Bavaria. Read more here:
My novel DAS RÄTSEL VON AINSLEY CASTLE (The Mystery of Ainsley Castle) was just named by Deutschlandfunk and Focus Magazin one of the “7 Best Books for Young Readers” for the month July 2020!
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My mother never stopped comparing Berlin to her hometown. “I left New York,” she’d say, “but it never left me!” After a visit to Berlin in the early eighties she found so much to dislike about the city, she decided to stay and make an art out of complaining about it. |
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