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The author duo Iny Lorentz writes three novels a year, while Ken Follett only publishes one.
Who is the true master of historical fiction?
We show ten of the duo's bestsellers.
1 / 10Iny Lorentz “The Young Wandering Whore”: Constance in 1410: After the bitter betrayal by her noble fiancé, who only wanted her fortune, the beautiful merchant's daughter Marie is dishonored and chased out of the city, seriously injured.
The hiking whore Hiltrud finds her and takes care of her.
At first, Marie longs for death so that she can leave all the hardship and misery behind her.
Over time, however, she realizes that her death would mean the final triumph of her enemies.
To maintain hope of retribution, Marie decides not to give up, even if it means selling her body and living a life of shame.
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2 / 10Announced new release by Iny Lorentz “The Sold Singer”: Thuringia around 1796: Her blonde hair makes the young Cristina an outsider even in her own family of jugglers.
She is simply too different from her relatives who come from Italy.
The authorities therefore often mistake her for a kidnapped child.
Her aunt takes the first chance she gets to get rid of the girl and sells her to the Duke of Saxony-Meinigen.
Cristina is to be trained as a singer in Meiningen.
Although her training involves military drill, she loves music and her captivatingly beautiful voice soon causes admiration, but also resentment and envy.
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3 / 10Iny Lorentz “The Wandering Whore and the Oriental Doctor”: Germany, 1441;
Marie and Michel can't believe their eyes: on the path in front of them lies a young, seriously injured woman - an arrow straight through her chest.
Michel sends for the mysterious oriental doctor Rasul al Hakimi, whom they met in an inn the evening before.
He manages to keep the injured noblewoman alive.
But Marie and Michel end up in the middle of the feud between opposing noble families who are fighting for supremacy.
And the oriental doctor seems to know more than he pretends.
To prevent the worst, Marie must uncover the doctor's secret.
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4 / 10Iny Lorentz “The Wandering Whore and the Nun”: Since the new Prince-Bishop of Würzburg wants to force Kibitzstein Castle under his rule, Marie Adler enters into an alliance with the Thuringian Count Ernst von Herrenroda.
But the castle where Marie meets the count is attacked and the residents are mercilessly killed.
Only Marie, her daughter Trudi and the nun Ignatia, who is related to the count, can initially escape into the impassable forests, but Ignatia is seriously injured.
When the three women are finally captured by robbers who are connected to the leader of the attack, Marie understands the full extent of the catastrophe: they have found themselves in the middle of the bitter feud between two Thuringian noble families!
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5 / 10Iny Lorentz “The Trick of the Wandering Whore”: Abbess Isabelle de Melancourt keeps a secret in her forest monastery.
Leopold von Gordean and his knights are convinced that this is the hiding place of the Holy Grail.
They attack the monastery, kill some nuns and take Isabelle and the others prisoner.
The novice Justina escapes them and sets off on Isabelle's behalf to ask the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Johann von Brunn for help.
The Grandmaster's henchmen catch up with her and want to kill her.
That's when the former hiking whore Marie and her husband Michel intervene.
The two of them have no idea that Justina's rescue is the beginning of a dangerous path for them, where death is always lurking.
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6 / 10Iny Lorentz “Daughters of Sin”: The former wandering whore Marie lives happily at Kibitzstein Castle.
Her children are grown, the daughters are already married, and now her son Falko is also supposed to go under the hood.
But Falko is a hothead, and when he makes bitter enemies at a tournament, the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg sends him to Rome with his niece Elisabeth.
There the young girl is supposed to become head of a nunnery.
Falko is initially able to resist the temptation to seduce the beautiful woman, but in Rome he plunges into an affair with the daughter of his mortal enemy.
In doing so, he endangers the task that awaits him there: he is supposed to visit the German King Friedrich III.
and prepare his imperial coronation, and the opponents are already lurking... © Droemer
7 / 10Iny Lorentz “The Wandering Whore's Daughter”: More than twelve years have passed since Marie had to go through her last adventures.
She lives happily and contentedly with her husband at Kibitzstein Castle - until her patron, the Würzburg Prince-Bishop, dies: the two of them are a thorn in the side of his successor. Trudi, the eldest daughter of Marie and Michel, is the pride and joy of her parents and dreams of great love.
A terrible thing happens at Trudi's friend's wedding: Michel is murdered!
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8 / 10Iny Lorentz “The Legacy of the Wandering Whore”: When Marie's mortal enemy Hulda learns that her rival is pregnant again, she hatches a perfidious plan: Marie should be kidnapped and declared dead.
At first the plan seems to work: Marie ends up in the hands of a merchant who has her sold as a slave.
Together with the son she has now given birth to, she comes into the possession of Anna, wife of the nephew of the Grand Duke of Moscow.
She manages to gain Anna's trust, but then Anna is in great danger and has to flee.
When Marie finally manages to find her way home at the risk of her life, she discovers that her beloved Michel is no longer free... © Droemer
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9 / 10Iny Lorentz “The Castellan”: Marie lives happily with her husband Michel Adler, whom she loves dearly.
Her happiness seems complete when she is expecting a child.
But then Michel has to go into battle against the rebellious Hussites.
He shows so much courage that he is knighted - and after a cruel massacre he disappears without a trace. After he is declared dead, Marie is left to her own devices and is exposed to new humiliations every day.
Ultimately she only has one way out: she has to flee her castle.
Marie has not given up hope that Michel could still be alive and joins a new army as a sutler.
The adventure of a lifetime begins.
Will she ever find the man she loves again?
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10 / 10Iny Lorentz “The Wandering Whore”: Constance in 1410: When Count Ruppert asks for the hand of the beautiful citizen's daughter Marie, her father can hardly believe his luck.
He has no idea that the noble suitor only cares about his future wife's fortune and that he will not shy away from any crime to achieve this.
Marie and her father become victims of a vicious intrigue that drives the girl out of town.
In order to survive she has to sell her body.
But Marie doesn't give up... © Droemer
The writer couple who hide behind the pseudonym Iny Lorentz are Elmar Wohlrath and Iny Klock.
They tied the knot in 1982 and began publishing their first works while working at an insurance company.
Her novel “The Wandering Whore,” written in 2001, sold over 3.5 million copies and became a huge success.
Numerous other historical novels and several film adaptations of her works followed.
They also used the corona pandemic to write undisturbed.
Ken Follett publishes a new historical novel annually and is often referred to as the “master of historical fiction.”
However, if you look at the workload of the writing duo Iny Lorentz, this title could falter.
In an interview with BZ Berlin, the two authors revealed that they finish three novels every year, research another and “mentally prepare” another one.
According to the authors, they even wrote six and a half books during the corona pandemic in 2020.