The mysterious murder of writer Alexandra Freolich

There are still many unknowns. The wireless body of 58 -year -old bestseller author Alexandra Freolich was found on April 22 at her home – a boat anchored in the Hamburg neighborhood of Morflet. Meanwhile, police have confirmed that her death is violent and the murder is still under investigation.

Marriage to Russian inspires her first novels

In her first novels, Alexandra Freolich writes about her failed marriage to a Russian. She achieved a literary breakthrough in 2012 with the novel « My Russian Mother -in -law and other catastrophes ». In the half -biographical work, Freolich tells the story of German lawyer Paula, who falls in love with Russian – and suddenly finds himself in the chaotic space of his dominant mother.

With a joke and self-irony, Freolich attaches to the cultural clichés and family disorders that she herself experienced as part of a German-Russian family.

The novel has been sold in over 50,000 copies in Germany and is on the authoritative list of bestsellers of Spiegel magazine. In 2015 it was also translated into French.

Two years later, the continuation of « Travel with Russians » followed. In this book, Paula goes to the capital of Ukraine Kiev to reconcile with her husband Artyom – but finds that he has disappeared without a trace. This is followed by a trip that is funny as it is a topic of reflection, filled with strange meetings and many questions about identity and roots. Both in the debut novel and in this Freolich describes his own experience as a Russian wife’s former wife.

Deep family dramas with black humor

With his third novel, Death is an inevitable, Alexandra Freolich reaches for the criminal genre and again proves her sense of subtle shades and strange humor.

At the center of the story is 91-year-old Agnes Weisgut, who is the head of a Hamburg family of stonemasons. « Agnes’s Business was Death » writes in the book annotation. As they age, the woman decides before she goes to reveal all the secrets of her life. The novel tells the traumas of the post -war generation in Eastern Prussia and receives high estimates of its unusual humor.

« I just love family stories, especially if it is such a wonderful dysfunction clan like Weisgut, » the author says in one interview.

In 2019, « Skeletons in the wardrobe » are published – another novel for family disorders. This time, these are four brothers who have not been communicating with each other for a long time, but are visible again after their grandfather’s death. A mysterious suitcase with old documents, including Grandpa’s diary, allows them to learn family secrets hidden for decades.

A long career and a tragic end

Before he fully devoted himself to writing, Freul worked as an editor in various women’s magazines. Her journalistic career began in Kyiv, where she founded a female magazine in post -Soviet times.

Alexandra Freolich has three sons. According to media publications, one of them finds her and reports to the police at 5:20 in the morning, after which his mother’s death was established and an investigation began. She was shot dead, NDR reports.