Andreas Eschbach

Andreas Eschbach at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

Andreas Eschbach (born September 15, 1959 in Ulm ) is a German writer and bestselling author . He has received several awards for his works and is considered one of the most important European science fiction authors.

Life

Eschbach studied aerospace engineering in Stuttgart , but did not graduate, but worked as a software developer and entrepreneur until his success as a writer allowed him to concentrate on writing. He has been living in Brittany for the second time since 2003 .

Artistic creation

Andreas Eschbach at the Perry-Rhodan -Weltcon in October 2011 in Mannheim

Eschbach's first published novel The Hair Carpet Knotters (1995) can also be read as a collection of short stories all set in the same science fiction universe. He takes up this universe again in Quest (2001), a novel designed as a classic space opera . Solarstation (1996) is designed as a real thriller . With Kelwitts Stern (1999) Eschbach parodies the story of ET and relocates it to the Swabian Alb.

Eschbach's first bestseller is Das Jesus Video (1998). The thriller, the basic idea of ​​which is based on a journey through time , takes place entirely in the present. With One Billion Dollars (2001) , Eschbach moves even further away from the fantastic . Only the idea of ​​a $ 1,000,000,000 inheritance that originated sometime in the 16th century is fantastic. The thriller is driven by the question of who will end up holding money and thus power. On almost 900 pages the reader also learns a lot about economics and money.

The novel The Nobel Prize uses no fantastic elements, kidnapping and blackmailing a member of the Nobel Prize committee set the story rolling. Apparently Eschbach is constructing an economic thriller, but in the end you learn a few surprising things about the main characters, things that let the actors and the plot appear in a completely new light.

Burnt out describes the emergence and consequences of a profound energy crisis , triggered by exceeding the global maximum oil production , also known as “peak oil”. With this material as a basis, Eschbach approaches science fiction again . What will the world be like when we run out of cheap oil? With this book, Eschbach shows a glimpse into the possible future.

From September 2001 to June 2002 his serial novel Exponentialdrift was published in 42 parts in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . Eschbach also wove current references into the plot. The collected sequels were then published as a book with a detailed afterword on the genesis.

As the first of several guest authors in the meantime, he wrote the 1935th volume of the Perry-Rhodan series in 1998 and was thus able to fulfill a childhood dream. In the course of time there were also five other guest novels and five short stories. One of the following guest novels was the writing of the anniversary volume 2700 in 2013, which was previously usually reserved for one of the main authors of the series. He received a special honor when Andreas Eschbach was invited to the Leipzig Book Fair 2017 to write the prequel ( How it all began ) for the Perry Rhodan series. The novel was published in 2019 as Perry Rhodan - The Greatest Adventure and tells the story of the title hero Perry Rhodan before the flight to the moon, who started the Perry Rhodan series with volume 1.

His works have been translated into numerous languages. In April 2005 appeared as the first translation into English his debut novel, The Carpet Makers under the title The Carpet Makers 2014 in the USA, Lord of all things as Lord Of All Things . Further translations were carried out into French ( The last of its kind in 2006 as Le Dernier de son espèce ), Italian ( The carpet weavers 2001 as Miliardi di tappeti di capelli ), Spanish , Dutch , Czech , Polish , Russian , Latvian , Japanese and Turkish .

Teaching

For many years, Andreas Eschbach has been actively involved as a senior speaker at writing seminars for young writers. In addition to extensive book tips on the subject, its website also offers a long list of questions and answers that Eschbach has answered by email over the course of time. This service will be continued on the website, but Eschbach stopped active seminars at the end of 2007.

On the initiative of Andreas Eschbach, a writing experiment took place under his and Klaus N. Fricks direction at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel in 2005: 15 participants in a writing seminar wrote the rough version of a complete novel within 44 hours.

Works

Novels

• The hair carpet weavers . Schneekluth, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7951-1371-7 .
• Solar station . Schneekluth, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7951-1406-3 .
• The Jesus video . Schneekluth, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7951-1625-2 .
• Kelwitt's star . Schneekluth, 1999, ISBN 3-404-23232-1 .
• Quest . Heyne, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-18773-3 .
• One trillion dollars . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, ISBN 3-7857-2049-1 .
• Exponential drift . Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2003, ISBN 3-404-14912-2 (published in 2002 in continuations in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung ).
• The last of its kind . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2003, ISBN 3-7857-2123-4 .
• The Nobel Prize . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2005, ISBN 3-7857-2219-2 .
• Burned out . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-2274-9 .
• A king for Germany . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-2374-6 .
• Lord of all things . Lübbe, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-7857-2429-3 .
• Angel of death . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7857-2481-1 .
• The Jesus deal . Lübbe-Ehrenwirth, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-431-03900-9 .
• Devil gold . Lübbe-Ehrenwirth, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-7857-2568-9 .
• NSA - National Security Agency . Lübbe, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7857-2625-9 .

Youth novels

• Perfect Copy , The Second Creation . Arena 2002, ISBN 3-401-05425-2 .
• The rare gift . Arena 2004, ISBN 3-401-05461-9 .
• The Mars Project , a pentalogy with a prequel , consisting of:
  • Is there life on Mars or The Mars Project - The Whispering Storm. Prequel for the Mars project, Arena 2009, ISBN 978-3-401-06366-9 , also contained in a special volume of Die Rare Gabe ( ISBN 978-3-401-50353-0 ).

1. The distant glow. Arena 2005, ISBN 3-401-05749-9 , new edition of Das Martsprojekt , Arena 2001.
2. The blue towers. Arena 2005, ISBN 3-401-05770-7 .
3. The glass caves. Arena 2006, ISBN 3-401-05867-3 .
4. The stone shadows. Arena 2007, ISBN 978-3-401-06060-6 .
5. The sleeping guardians. Arena 2008, ISBN 978-3-401-06061-3 .

• Out trilogy

1. Black * out . Arena 2010, ISBN 978-3-401-06062-0 .
2. Hide * Out . Arena 2011, ISBN 978-3-401-06587-8 .
3. Time * out . Arena 2012, ISBN 978-3-401-06630-1 .

• Aquamarine.

1. Aquamarine . Arena 2015, ISBN 978-3-401-60022-2 .
2. Submarine . Arena 2017, ISBN 978-3-401-60023-9 .
3. Ultramarine . Arena 2019, ISBN 978-3-401-60389-6 .

Perry Rhodan

• novel
  • Perry Rhodan - The greatest adventure . 848 pp., FISCHER Tor, Frankfurt 2019, ISBN 978-3-5967-0145-2 .
• Perry Rhodan magazine series
  • No. 1935: The Song of Silence . Booklet novel, 1998.
  • No. 2295: The Return . Booklet novel, 2005.
  • No. 2503: The Trap of Dhogar . Booklet novel, 2009.
  • No. 2700: The Techno Moon . Booklet novel, 2013.
  • No. 2812: Welcome to Tamanium! Booklet novel, 2015.
  • No. 2813: At Rhodan's grave . Booklet novel, 2015.
• Short stories
  • World of calamity . 1975 as a reader's short story in Perry Rhodan No. 739.
  • A lousy historian . 2001 as a short story in Perry Rhodan-Magazin (special edition).
  • The nightmare man. 2006 as a short story.
  • Second death . 2008 as a short story in the paperback Ara-Toxin 4 .
  • An insignificant man . 2011 as Stellaris episode no.25 in Perry Rhodan no.2614.

Short story collection

• An untouched world. Bastei, 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-15859-1 .

Short stories (selection)

• Dolls . 1991 in c't - magazine for computer technology. No. 6/91, Heise Verlag.
• The wonders of the universe . 1997 in Science Fiction Media 132.
• Beyond the mountains.
• Druupies . 1999 in Alien Contact 34.
• The dragon in the Hindu Kush.
• Quantenmüll In: The breath of God and other visions 2004. Shayol, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-926126-42-6 .
• One trillion euros . Short story in the anthology of the same name edited by Andreas Eschbach, 2004, ISBN 3-404-24326-9 .
• Is there life on Mars? 2009, ISBN 978-3-401-06366-9 .
• LOVE HACKING or: LOVE IN 2064 in Bild der Wissenschaft 02/2014.
• Acapulco! Acapulco! In: EXODUS 34/2016, ISSN  1860-675X .

Others

• Made-to-measure software. Planning, implementation and control of IT projects . Pearson Education, 2000, ISBN 3-87791-327-X .
• The book of the future . Non-fiction book 2004, ISBN 3-87134-476-1 .

As editor

• One Trillion Euro , 2004, ISBN 3-404-24326-9 (in addition to the eponymous story by Eschbach, it also contains contributions by other European SF authors, including Pierre Bordage , Elia Barceló , Wim Maryson , Valerio Evangelisti , Leo Lukas , Wolfgang Jeschke , Michael Marrak and Marcus Hammerschmitt )

Adaptations

filming

• The Jesus video . D 2002, director: Sebastian Niemann , 3 h 2 min, FSK 16 (with Matthias Koeberlin , Naike Rivelli , Frank Scharl and others).

Radio plays

Novels and Stories:

• One trillion dollars. SWR / Lübbe Audio 2003, director: Leonhard Koppelmann , 4 CDs, 4 h 3 min, ISBN 978-3-404-77318-3 (with Andreas Pietschmann , Felix von Manteuffel , Maria Schrader and others).
• Quantum waste. SRF 2004, director: Isabel Schaerer, 30 min (with Thomas Sarbacher , Hans Schenker , Bernhard Bettermann and others).
• The Jesus video. Lübbe Audio 2016, director: Armin Prediger, radio play in 4 parts (with Till Hagen , Timmo Niesner , Friedhelm Ptok and others):

1. Traces. 1 CD, 54 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5284-5 .
2. The holy city. 1 CD, 57 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5276-0 .
3. The mission. 1 CD, 54 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5299-9 .
4. Exodus. 1 CD, 1 hour, ISBN 978-3-7857-5300-2 .

• The Jesus deal. Lübbe Audio 2016, director: Armin Prediger, radio play in 4 parts (with Till Hagen and others):

1. The legacy. 1 CD, 57 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5227-2 .
2. Ex machina. 1 CD, 51 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5301-9 .
3. Last supper. 1 CD, 50 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5302-6 .
4. New beginning. 1 CD, 52 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5303-3 .

Line:

• Perry Rhodan - Star Ocean

1. No. 37 - The Luna Convoy. Lübbe Audio 2013, 51 min, only available as a download .
2. No. 38 - In the hell of Whocain. Lübbe Audio 2013, 54 min, only available as a download.
3. No. 39 - Under the condenser dome. Lübbe Audio 2013, 1 h 2 min, only available as a download.
4. No. 40 - Protocols of the Immortals. Lübbe Audio 2013, 59 min, only available as a download.
5. No. 41 - Battle for the Sol System. Lübbe Audio 2013, 1 h 2 min, only available as a download.
6. No. 42 - Ahandaba. Lübbe Audio 2013, 2 h 23 min, only available as a download.

Audio books

Novels:

• The Jesus video. Lübbe Audio 2002, read by Matthias Koeberlin, 6 CDs, 6 h 58 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-1265-8 (accompanied by the film music).
  • as an anniversary edition (10 years Lübbe Audio) reissued in 2006, ISBN 978-3-7857-3178-9 .
  • reread and re-edited in 2014, read by Matthias Koeberlin, 6 CDs, 7 h 4 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5011-7 .
  • also available as a download in full, 20 h 20 min.
• The last of its kind. Lübbe Audio 2004, read by Martin May , 5 CDs, 5 h 45 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-1395-2 .
• The Nobel Prize. Lübbe Audio 2005, read by Stephan Benson , 6 CDs, 6 h 57 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-3048-5 .
• Burned out. Lübbe Audio 2007, read by Ulrich Noethen , 8 CDs, 9 h 36 min, ISBN 978-3-404-77316-9 .
• A king for Germany. Lübbe Audio 2009, read by Ulrich Noethen, 6 CDs, 6 h 57 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4243-3 .
• Lord of all things. Lübbe Audio 2011, read by Matthias Koeberlin, 8 CDs, 9 h 34 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4515-1 (also available for download in full, read by Sascha Rotermund : 23 h 40 min).
• The hair carpet weavers. Lübbe Audio 2012, read by Sascha Rotermund, 4 CDs, 5 hours, ISBN 978-3-7857-4686-8 (also available as a download in full: 9 hours 26 minutes).
• Kelwitt's star. Lübbe Audio 2012, read by Sascha Rotermund, 4 CDs, 4 h 54 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4661-5 (also available as a download in full: 11 h 39 min).
• Quest. Lübbe Audio 2012, read by Sascha Rotermund, 6 CDs, 7 h 22 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4663-9 (also available as a download in full: 17 h 20 min).
• Solar station. Lübbe Audio 2012, read by Sascha Rotermund, 6 CDs, 7 h 30 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4602-8 (also available as a download in full: 9 h 1 min).
• Death Angel. Lübbe Audio 2013, read by Matthias Koeberlin, 8 CDs, 9 h 12 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4888-6 (also available as a full download: 16 h 26 min).
• The Jesus deal. Lübbe Audio 2014, read by Matthias Koeberlin, 6 CDs, 7 h 22 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5012-4 (also available as a download in full: 23 h 43 min).
• One trillion dollars. Lübbe Audio 2014, unabridged by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 28 h 40 min, only available as a download.
• Aquamarine. Arena Audio 2015, read by Maximiliane Häcke , 6 CDs, 7 h 16 min, ISBN 978-3-401-24018-3 .
• Devil gold. Lübbe Audio 2016, read by Matthias Koeberlin, 8 CDs, 9 h 13 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5351-4 (also available as a download in full: 15 h 40 min).
• NSA - National Security Agency . Lübbe Audio 2018, read by Laura Maire , 10 CDs, 11 h 48 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5763-5 (also available as a download in full: 22 h 14 min).
• Perry Rhodan - The greatest adventure . Argon Verlag 2019, read by Uve Teschner , 4 MP3-CDs, 29 h 24 min, ISBN 978-3-8398-1689-9 (also available as a full download: 29 h 24 min).

Rows:

• The Mars Project

1. The distant glow. Lübbe Audio 2008, read by Marie Bierstedt , 4 CDs, 5 h 3 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-3603-6 .
2. The blue towers. Lübbe Audio 2008, read by Marie Bierstedt and Timmo Niesner, 4 CDs, 5 hours, ISBN 978-3-7857-3668-5 .

• Out trilogy

1. Blackout. Arena Audio 2010, read by Stefan Kaminski , 6 CDs, 6 h 50 min, ISBN 978-3-401-26062-4 .
2. Hide * Out. Arena Audio 2011, read by Stefan Kaminski, 6 CDs, 7 h 10 min, ISBN 978-3-401-26587-2 .
3. Time-out. Arena Audio 2012, read by Stefan Kaminski, 6 CDs, 7 hours, ISBN 978-3-401-26630-5 .

• Perry Rhodan

1. No. 2503 - The Trap of Dhogar. Eins A future 2009, read unabridged by Michael-Che Koch , 3 h 23 min, available as a download as well as an MP3 CD and DVD at www.einsamedien.de.
2. No. 2700 - The Techno Moon. Eins A future 2013, read unabridged by Andreas Laurenz Maier, 4 h 21 min, available as a download and as an MP3 CD and DVD at www.einsamedien.de.
3. No. 2812 - Welcome to Tamanium! Eins A future 2015, unabridged by Renier Baaken, 4 h 8 min, available as a download and as an MP3 CD and DVD at www.einsamedien.de.
4. No. 2813 - At Rhodan's grave. Eins A future 2015, read unabridged by Andreas Laurenz Maier, 4 hours, available as a download and as an MP3 CD and DVD at www.einsamedien.de.

Stories:

• One trillion euros. Lübbe Audio 2005, unabridged by Sascha Rotermund, 1 CD, 58 min, ISBN 978-3-404-77048-9 .
• Halloween. Lübbe Audio 2013, read in full by Jürgen Prochnow , 35 min, only available as a download.
• Quantum waste. Lübbe Audio 2013, read in full by Jürgen Prochnow, 40 min, only available as a download.
• The man from the future. Lübbe Audio 2014, read in full by Rolf Berg, 21 min, only available as a download.
• A celebration of love. Lübbe Audio 2014, unabridged by Yara Blümel, 51 min, only available as a download.
• An untouched world. Lübbe Audio 2014, read in full by Jürgen Prochnow, 39 min, only available as a download.
• Humanic Park. Lübbe Audio 2014, read unabridged by Jürgen Prochnow, 13 min, only available as a download.
• Al-Qaeda ^TM . Lübbe Audio 2015, read unabridged by Rolf Berg, 30 min, only available as a download.
• The most beautiful party. Lübbe Audio 2015, read in full by Christoph Wortberg , 17 min, only available as a download.
• The wonders of the universe. Lübbe Audio 2015 read in full by Nicole Engeln, 42 min, only available as a download.
• The black knife. Lübbe Audio 2016, read in full by Jürgen Prochnow, 36 min, only available as a download.
• The amaryllis virus. Lübbe Audio 2016, read in full by Christoph Wortberg, 24 min, only available as a download.
• The rediscovery. Lübbe Audio 2016, read unabridged by Simon Jäger , 42 min, only available as a download.
• Garden of eden. Lübbe Audio 2016, read unabridged by Christoph Wortberg, 28 min, only available as a download.
• Survival training. Lübbe Audio 2016, read unabridged by Christoph Wortberg, 29 min, only available as a download.
• Unauthorized advertising. Lübbe Audio 2016, read unabridged by Rolf Berg, 25 min, only available as a download.
• The nightmare man. Lübbe Audio 2016, read unabridged by Rolf Berg, 47 min, only available as a download.

Awards and honors

• 1994/1995 - Arno Schmidt scholarship
• 1996 - German Science Fiction Award for The Hair Carpet Knotters as best novel
• 1997 - German Science Fiction Award for Solar Station as best novel
• 1997 - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for solar station as best novel
• 1998 - German Science Fiction Award for The Miracles of the Universe as the best short story
• 1999 - German Fantasy Prize for Das Jesus Video as best novel
• 1999 - German Science Fiction Award for Das Jesus Video as best novel
• 1999 - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Das Jesus Video as best novel
• 2000 - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Kelwitts Stern as best novel
• 2000 - Prix ​​Bob Morane (Belgian Literature Prize) for the carpet weavers
• 2000 - Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (French literary prize) for the carpet weavers
• 2002 - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Quest as best novel
• 2004 - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the last of its kind as best novel
• 2004 - German Science Fiction Award for the last of its kind as best novel
• 2004 - Deutscher Phantastik Award for the last of its kind as best novel
• 2004 - Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (French literary prize) for one trillion euros in the Prix européen category
• 2005 - German Phantastik Prize for quantum waste as the best short story
• 2006 - Reading Peter February for "The rare gift"
• 2008 - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for burned out as best novel
• 2009 - Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize for survival training as best short story
• 2009 - Prix ​​Une autre Terre for Burned Out
• 2010 - Prix Bob Morane for Burned Out
• 2010 - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for A King for Germany as best novel
• 2012 - Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for Lord of All Things as the best novel
• 2019 - Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize for NSA - National Security Office as best novel

literature

• Peter Bräunlein: An alien Swabian. About the SF author Andreas Eschbach. In: The Other Arcadia. Out and about in the Fantasticum universe. About the opportunities and risks of a literary genre. Pp. 198-200 ( die horen , vol. 217) 2005, ISBN 3-86509-265-9 .
• Oliver Buslau : "You are an author 24 hours a day." The writer Andreas Eschbach. In: TextArt . Magazine for creative writing, issue 4/2002, pp. 14–19.
• Marcel Feige : The clearer. A conversation with Andreas Eschbach. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 2000. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag , Munich, ISBN 3-453-16183-1 , pp. 752–768.
• Sonja Dirsch, Alexander Seibold: I don’t worry at all about the homogeneity of my entire oeuvre. A conversation with Andreas Eschbach. In: Sascha Mamczak , Wolfgang Jeschke: The Science Fiction Year 2004. Munich 2004, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, ISBN 3-453-87896-5 , pp. 399-433.
• Bartholomäus Figatowski: Cliques, clones and adolescent crises - generation- specific readings of three science fiction novels by Andreas Eschbach. In: Maren Bonacker (ed.): The child in the reader. Fantastic texts as all-ages reading. Trier 2008, ISBN 978-3-88476-968-3 , pp. 155-170.

Web links

Commons : Andreas Eschbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andreas Eschbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andreas Eschbach in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Andreas Eschbach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Works by and about Andreas Eschbach at Open Library
• Official website
• Andreas Eschbach in Perrypedia
• PR volume 1935 , 2295 , 2503 , 2700 in the Perrypedia

Interviews

• Interview on www.leser-welt.de
• I was in acute danger of being completely over-fed. (Interview)
• Interview on the novel Quest
• Voting computers do not have to be ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• I am not criticizing the German right to vote. Interview on Buchwurm.info (01/2010)
• I always research as much as necessary and as little as possible. Interview on Janett's opinion (10/2016)
• Imagine if the Nazis had our computer technology Interview by Deutschlandfunk Kultur (10/2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book shelf: "Jesus Video" at Andreaseschbach.de, accessed on October 17, 2012.
2. ^ Andreas Eschbach, Klaus N. Frick, Olaf Kutzmutz (eds.): [1] . Federal Academy. for cultural education, Wolfenbüttel 2006, ISBN 3-929622-23-8 .
3. ↑ Beyond the Mountains (PDF; 63 kB) 1999 at SF-Fan.de
4. ↑ ^{a b} quantum waste. ( Memento from January 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )