novels
author of nine novels. Writes suspense, fantasy and literary fiction.
research
PhD at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester, researching the historical novel, memory practices and contemporary retellings of the Trojan war. Degree in English Literature and Cultures and Political Sciences from the University of Bonn with a stop at Paris III.
journalism
Founder of 42 Magazine. Published in The New Federalist, Deutsche Welle, The Wire India. Regular contributor to DW Culture.
public writing
writes on egalitarian societies in the past, today and the future, literature, the uses we put the past to, memory making, the nation-state and Europe, the publishing industry, and historical warrior women.
teaching
Founder of the Novel Writing Workshop at the University of Bonn. Teaches writing and literature at the University of Bonn. Community writing in Recklinghausen. Lectured at the Universities of Bochum and Wuppertal.
Christine Lehnen is a novelist, journalist and researcher. Her research has been published in the Journal of Literary Theory, Antigone Journal and Alluvium. Her novels are published by HarperCollins UK, Heroic Books and Penguin Random House Germany. She has been teaching the Novel Writing Workshop at the University of Bonn since 2014.
represented by
agent: Thérèse Coen
2022 The Wayfarer Saga as C. E. Bernard
Publisher: Heroic Books, Liverpool
2021 The Wayfarer Saga as C. E. Bernard
Publisher: Penguin Random House Germany, Munich
2021 Local Whispers as C. K. Williams
Publisher: HarperCollins UK, London
2020 Flowers for the Dead as C. K. Williams
Publisher: HarperCollins UK, London
2019 “Ende Gut, Alles Gut” as C. E. Bernard
Publisher: Drachenmond Verlag, Köln
2019 Episode 1×02 “Johanna”, Think Big!
ITV Studios Germany, Cologne
2018-2019 The Palace Saga as C. E. Bernard
Publisher: Penguin Random House Germany, Munich