diff --git a/defaults/solr/schema.xml b/defaults/solr/schema.xml
index c430bb0b5..d71683db2 100755
--- a/defaults/solr/schema.xml
+++ b/defaults/solr/schema.xml
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
    <field name="description" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="comments" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="author" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
-   <copyField source="author" dest="author_s" maxChars="100" />
+   <copyField source="author" dest="author_sxt" maxChars="100" />
    <field name="keywords" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="category" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="content_type" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/federate/solr/YaCySchema.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/federate/solr/YaCySchema.java
index 3a0df9b7e..c4c4ec737 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/federate/solr/YaCySchema.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/federate/solr/YaCySchema.java
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public enum YaCySchema implements Schema {
     coordinate_p(SolrType.location, true, true, false, "point in degrees of latitude,longitude as declared in WSG84"),
     ip_s(SolrType.string, true, true, false, "ip of host of url (after DNS lookup)"),
     author(SolrType.text_general, true, true, false, "content of author-tag"),
-    author_s(SolrType.string, true, true, false, "content of author-tag as copy-field from author. This is used for facet generation"),
+    author_sxt(SolrType.string, true, true, true, "content of author-tag as copy-field from author. This is used for facet generation"),
     description(SolrType.text_general, true, true, false, "content of description-tag"),
     description_unique_b(SolrType.bool, true, true, false, "flag shows if description is unique in the whole index; if yes and another document appears with same description, the unique-flag is set to false"),
     keywords(SolrType.text_general, true, true, false, "content of keywords tag; words are separated by space"),
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/search/query/QueryParams.java b/source/net/yacy/search/query/QueryParams.java
index 438d11380..62bba6e30 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/search/query/QueryParams.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/search/query/QueryParams.java
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ public final class QueryParams {
         YaCySchema.host_s.getSolrFieldName(),
         YaCySchema.url_protocol_s.getSolrFieldName(),
         YaCySchema.url_file_ext_s.getSolrFieldName(),
-        YaCySchema.author_s.getSolrFieldName()};
+        YaCySchema.author_sxt.getSolrFieldName()};
     
     private static final int defaultmaxfacets = 30;
     
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ public final class QueryParams {
         
         // add author facets
         if (this.author != null && this.author.length() > 0) {
-            fq.append(" AND ").append(YaCySchema.author_s.getSolrFieldName()).append(":\"").append(this.author).append('\"');
+            fq.append(" AND ").append(YaCySchema.author_sxt.getSolrFieldName()).append(":\"").append(this.author).append('\"');
         }
         
         if (this.protocol != null) {
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/search/query/SearchEvent.java b/source/net/yacy/search/query/SearchEvent.java
index 95b81235d..bc95a905a 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/search/query/SearchEvent.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/search/query/SearchEvent.java
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ public final class SearchEvent {
         }
 
         if (this.authorNavigator != null) {
-            fcts = facets.get(YaCySchema.author_s.getSolrFieldName());
+            fcts = facets.get(YaCySchema.author_sxt.getSolrFieldName());
             if (fcts != null) this.authorNavigator.inc(fcts);
         }