Press

"Hohlbein is the best known and most productive German writer of fantasy." WIKIPEDIA

PRESS QUOTES

"Hohlbein′s greatest strength is the images created by his words" DIE WELT

"Wolfgang Hohlbein. The name for the inexplicable". FAZ

"Wolfgang Hohlbein is "Germany′s top best-selling author". No other German author born after 1950 has managed to come even close to matching Hohlbein′s worldwide sales figures." FOCUS

"Breathtaking reading that is all but impossible to put down." BERLINER MORGENPOST

"... a mix of English gothic novel and German Romantik" DIE ZEIT

CAREER

Born Aug. 15th 1953 in J.W. von Goethe′s hometown Weimar/Germany, Wolfgang Hohlbein is Germany′s most successful author. His books have been translated into 37 languages.
One of the most versatile writers, he has published more than 200 novels and sold more than 35 million copies in Germany and all over the world.
Having won numerous prizes, Hohlbein′s repertoire stretches from fantasy to horror, from children′s and teen books to historical topics as well as film related stories (e.g. Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean) Regarded as the trailblazer of the new German genre "Phantastik" and fantasy, he is often compared to J.R.R. Tolkien or Michael Ende. His breakthrough success MAGIC MOON is surpassed only by Ende′s "Neverending Story" as most successful children′s fantasy book.
Hohlbein ranked No. 2 as "best fantasy author" in an online survey, surpassed only by J.R.R. Tolkien and high above Terry Pratchett and other authors.

MILESTONES

1983:
- MAGIC MOON (Märchenmond) surpasses all expectations and becomes a long-running success in the sales charts. Sold over 4 million copies to date in Germany alone. Translated into more than 25 languages and sold in Asia, Europe and the U.S.
1993:
- THE DRUID GATE (Das Druidentor) remains a whole year on German best seller lists; More than 2 million copies have been sold in Germany alone. A TV Mini-Series is in production by Constantin Film
2005:
- 4 new Hohlbein books make it on the best seller lists of acclaimed news mags SPIEGEL, FOCUS, STERN (and other) - no other German author has come close
to achieving this. ANUBIS remains 6 months in a row on SPIEGEL's best seller list.
2008:
- The Chinese Wolfgang Hohlbein award was launched in Beijing. The Wolfgang Hohlbein award is the most important german literature award of a living german author, endowed in Germany with 10.000 Euro. In China there are nearly thirty books of Wolfgang Hohlbein available.

PRIZES AND AWARDS

Some of Wolfgang Hohlbeins awards:

→ ZDF TV prize of the bookworms
→ Fantasy award of Wetzlar - leading German Fantasy award
→ German adventure game award
→ Award best German SF serial

Some of the last important audience awards:

→ 2004: German Fantasy Prize BEST AUTHOR NATIONAL
→ 2005: Sondermann award BEST COMIC NATIONAL
→ 2005: Nyctalus BEST NOVEL PUBLISHED IN GERMANY 2005
→ 2006: Fantastic Award for "The Chronicle of the Immortal"
→ 2007: German Fantasy Prize BEST SHORT STORY