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Retired engineer becomes an author

2021-11-15T09:57:24.182Z


Dorothea Turina-Förster worked as a civil engineer. Now the 68-year-old is retired and has fulfilled a dream. She brought out her first book. In doing so, she proceeded quite well-planned.


Dorothea Turina-Förster worked as a civil engineer.

Now the 68-year-old is retired and has fulfilled a dream.

She brought out her first book.

In doing so, she proceeded quite well-planned.

Gröbenzell

- "I've always wanted to write something," reveals Dorothea Turina-Förster from Gröbenzell.

Now that the 68-year-old civil engineer is retired, she has the time.

Her debut work "Malizia - The best comes at the end - right?" Was launched at the beginning of the year.

It's a book about love, infidelity, and betrayal, and she published it under the pseudonym Olivera Mager.

The author was able to present it to some people from Groebenzell at a reading in the library.

It is also ready to be borrowed here.

As a child, the 68-year-old wrote and made up stories.

In her school days, it was the essays that she wrote with enthusiasm.

And her sister kept delighting her with stories she invented.

Too clamped beforehand

But during the years of her professional activity, the civil engineer was too busy to realize her dream of writing.

She had shared a statics office with a partner for 21 years.

“Writing is one side of me, the artistic one,” she says.

In contrast to the technical one, which she had made her job.

However, writing is not the Gröbenzeller's only great hobby, the second is traveling.

She has seen a wide variety of countries and has become a fan of Asia.

She loves the warm, humid climate.

And she was particularly impressed by Singapore.

In addition to Munich and the Maldives, the city-state has therefore also become the setting for her book.

In 2017 she started working on her first work.

“Completely engineering-like,” said a friend, she went to work.

a Lovestory

It was clear to Dorothea Turina-Förster that she wanted to write a love story that shouldn't be “too sweet”, as she emphasizes.

Rather, “it should be exciting, with intricacies, so that the reader is happy to stick with it”.

According to the publisher, the book is “aimed at a female readership who enjoys stories of betrayal, infidelity, passion and love.

First, the 68-year-old worked out a rough grid, the beginning and end of the novel were quickly determined, a surprising ending, as her husband comments. She set a time frame, the story extends over several years, and has thought out the characters of the individual characters. The book tells about the couple Hartmut and Anette who are expecting their first child together. But then Hartmut gets a new colleague, Malizia, who unscrupulously pursues her goal of winning the man over.

Writing a book was completely new territory for the 68-year-old.

But not only that, she also had to worry about how to publish it.

And she did extensive research on the Internet.

Which publishers are there?

How are they different?

She then decided on a Hamburg publisher that publishes books in self-publication.

She was looking for a lecturer herself and she also designed the cover picture of the book herself.

The book can be bought in every bookstore.

It is also available as an e-book.

(sus)

Source: merkur

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