Titus Muller

Titus Müller, 2010

Titus Müller (born October 15, 1977 in Leipzig ) is a German writer who mainly writes historical novels .

Life

Titus Müller was born as the second son of Matthias Müller, pastor of the Seventh-day Adventists , and his wife Ulrike, a pediatric nurse .

He studied literature, history and journalism in Berlin .

In March 1998 he founded the literary magazine Federwelt . In 2002 he was co-founder of the group of authors of the historical novel "Quo Vadis" and in the early years its spokesman. The circle of authors was dissolved in 2014. In the years of its existence, it has organized literary nights in eleven different cities and published four collective novels in the Aufbau Verlag .

In 2002, at the age of 24, Müller published his first novel The Calligrapher of the Bishop . Thirteen novels have been published to date, most recently Nachtauge , a novel that refers to the bombing of the Möhne reservoir as part of Operation Chastise , and The Day X about the uprising of June 17, 1953 in the GDR, as well as The golden years of Franz Tausend about the editor of the Weltbühne Carl von Ossietzky and the impostor Franz Tausend .

In 2005, Müller was the first to win the CS Lewis Prize . The award-winning story was published as Perry Rhodan booklet No. 2319 on January 27, 2006 under the title The Settlers of Vulgate and in the same year as an independent, expanded novel.

In spring 2014 he was accepted into the PEN writers' association (PEN Club).

Müller lives in Landshut and is a member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . He is married and has two sons.

Works

Novels

• The bishop's calligrapher . 2002, ISBN 3-7466-1856-8
• The priest's daughter . 2003, ISBN 3-7466-1990-4 *
• The glasses maker . 2005, ISBN 3-352-00717-9
• The doomed . 2005, ISBN 3-7466-2180-1
• The settlers of Vulgate . 2006, ISBN 3-86506-140-0
• The mystery . 2007, ISBN 3-352-00748-9
• The Jesuit of Lisbon . 2010, ISBN 3-352-00782-9
• Dance under the stars . 2011, ISBN 978-3-89667-456-2
• The kiss of the enemy . 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-85445-5
• Night eye . 2013, ISBN 978-3-89667-458-6
• Berlin Tierra del Fuego . 2015, ISBN 978-3-89667-503-3
• The D-Day . 2017, ISBN 978-3-89667-504-0
• The golden years of Franz Tausend . 2020, ISBN 978-3-89667-617-7

stories

• The snow crystal researcher . 2013, ISBN 978-3-942208-07-9
• Happy man . 2014, ISBN 978-3-86334-006-3
• Who stills the storm . 2015, ISBN 978-3-95734-041-2
• Silent Night . 2015, ISBN 978-3-86334-074-2
• Violins of Hope (with Christa Roth). 2016, ISBN 978-3-86334-117-6
• The voice of the creator . 2018, ISBN 978-3-95734-527-1
• Dance with me, Aurelia . 2019, ISBN 978-3-86334-239-5

Narrative non-fiction book

• To live on happiness . 2006, ISBN 3-7655-1891-3
• The little book for bon vivants . 2009, ISBN 3-7655-1713-5
• The little book about everyday happiness . 2010, ISBN 3-7655-1786-0
• The adventure of writing a novel . 2010, ISBN 978-3-7375-2734-7 (revised and expanded in 2015)
• Happiness has a thousand colors . 2012, ISBN 978-3-942208-57-4
• Luck has little chocolate fingers . 2017, ISBN 978-3-86334-170-1
• Just go for a walk . 2019, ISBN 978-3-7160-2779-0
• The almost forgotten art of writing letters (with Gaby Trombello-Wirkus). 2020, ISBN 978-3-86334-272-2

Adaptations

Audio books

Novels:

• The doomed. 2009, read by Tobias Dutschke, 1 MP3-CD, 12 h 36 min, ISBN 978-3-8368-0649-7
• The Jesuit of Lisbon. 2010, read by Tobias Dutschke, 13 CDs, 16 h 18 min, ISBN 978-3-8368-0539-1
• Dance under the stars. 2010, read by Günter Merlau, 9 CDs, 10 h 39 min, ISBN 978-3-8368-0618-3
• Night eye. 2013, read by Günter Merlau, 1 MP3-CD, 12 h 35 min, ISBN 978-3-8368-0704-3
• Berlin Tierra del Fuego. 2015, read by Tobias Dutschke, 2 MP3 CDs, 14 h 53 min, ISBN 978-3-8368-1162-0
• Der Tag X. 2017, read by Svenja Pages, 2 MP3-CDs, 12 h 57 min, ISBN 978-3-86974-283-0

Stories:

• The snow crystal researcher. 2014, read by the author, 2 CDs, 2 h 34 min, ISBN 978-3-86334-033-9
• Dance with me, Aurelia. 2019, read by the author, MP3 download, 3 h 6 min, ISBN 978-3-86334-820-5

Narrative non-fiction book:

• The little book for bon vivants. 2009, read by the author, 2 CDs, 2 h 30 min, ISBN 978-3-7655-8732-0

Graphic novel

• Basileia. The legacy of the monk. (on the novel Die Todgebeihte, drawings: Roloff, text: Michael Bregel ). 2006, ISBN 3-7655-1942-1

Awards

• 2005 - CS Lewis Prize for The Settlers of Vulgate
• 2005 - 2nd place at the Würth Literature Prize of the University of Tübingen
• 2008 - Sir Walter Scott Prize (Bronze Laurel) for The Mystery
• 2014 - Histo-König 2013 for Nachtauge
• 2016 - HOMER literature award as "best social novel 2016" for Berlin Tierra del Fuego

Web links

• Literature by and about Titus Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Titus Müller in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Titus Müller's website
• Titus Müller in Perrypedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Note on the dissolution of the “ Authors' Circle Historical Roman Quo Vadis ” see information on co-founder Titus Müller under Das HistoJournal Author Portrait - Titus Müller , online at histojournal.de
2. ↑ Day X at randomhouse.de
3. ↑ The golden years of Franz Tausend at randomhouse.de
4. ^ Writer Christoph Hein new PEN Honorary President , on Focus.de on May 18, 2014.
5. ↑ Kreisverband Mühldorf am Inn , accessed on August 22, 2018
6. ↑ Kreisverband Mühldorf am Inn , accessed on August 22, 2018
7. ↑ 2005 CS Lewis Prize , accessed June 27, 2011.
8. ↑ The Histo-King of 2013 , accessed on June 16, 2014.