Karl Olsberg
Karl Olsberg is the pseudonym of the German writer and entrepreneur Karl-Ludwig Max Hans Freiherr von Wendt (born December 19, 1960 in Bielefeld ).
Life
Baron von Wendt began his first writing activities in 1971 under the pseudonym Karl Olsberg, the second part of the name of which refers to his hometown, where he grew up. In Münster he studied business administration and received his doctorate on applications of artificial intelligence . He then became a management consultant at the management and strategy consultancy McKinsey. For some time he was also the marketing director of a TV broadcaster, managing director of a medium-sized production company and founded a multimedia agency in 1993. In 1999 he founded a software company that was named “Start Up of the Year 2000” in 2000.
Since 2003 he has concentrated more on writing books, but remains a full-time management consultant and has his main residence in Hamburg. He specifies his daily workload as 1,000 words, which he wants to achieve between 6:00 and 7:00 a.m.
His first book was published in 2005, Here Comes Elbot , which made it onto the Spiegel bestseller list .
Freiherr von Wendt is married and has three children.
Publications
Mygnia series
- 2012 Mygnia - The Discovery
- 2012 Mygnia - The City of Wind
Rafael 2.0 series
- 2011 Rafael 2.0
- 2012 Rafael 2.0 reboot
Cube world trilogy
- 2013 Cube World
- 2013 Back to the world of the cube
- 2014 Escape from the world of the cube
The village series
- 2014 Volume 1: The Stranger
- 2015 Volume 2: Kolle in Not
- 2015 Volume 3: The dispute
- 2015 Volume 4: The End
- 2015 Volume 5: The Golem
- 2015 Volume 6: The Revenge of Endermans
- 2016 Volume 7: Primo's Son
- 2016 Volume 8: Caught Ice Cold
- 2016 Volume 9: The Journey to the Moon
- 2016 Volume 10: Uprising of the Endermen
- 2017 Volume 11: The Count
- 2017 Volume 12: Slime
- 2017 Volume 13: Sponge About It
- 2018 Volume 14: The Eerie Stranger
- 2018 Volume 15: The Enigmatic Case
- 2018 Volume 16: Sunk low
- 2019 Volume 17: The Robbers
- 2019 Volume 18: Utopia
- 2020 Volume 19: again on the Nether!
Segi series
- 2013 Delete
- 2015 Enter
Boy in a white room row
- 2017 Boy in a white room
- 2018 Girl in a Strange Land
- 2019 Boy in a Dead End
Others
- 2005 Here comes Elbot
- 2007 2057 - How we will live in the future
- 2007 The system
- 2008 The fragrance
- 2009 black rain
- 2010 Creation out of control - How technology uses us
- 2011 shine
- 2013 The eighth revelation
- 2016 Mirror
- 2018 The KALA experiment
Audio books
- 2008 The system
- 2011 Rafael 2.0
- 2011 shine
- 2013 Delete
- 2013 The Eighth Revelation (Audible Exclusive)
- 2015 Enter
- 2015 Würfelwelt (Audible Exclusive)
- 2015 Back to the Cube World (Audible Exclusive)
- 2015 Escape from the Cube World (Audible Exclusive)
- 2017 Mirror (Audible Exclusive)
- 2017 Das Dorf: The Complete 1st Season (1st Season, Volumes 1 to 4) (Audible Original)
- 2017 Boy in a White Room (Audible Exclusive)
- 2018 The Village: The Complete 2nd Season (2nd Season, Volumes 5 to 8) (Audible Original)
- 2018 The KALA Experiment (Audible Exclusive)
- 2018 Girl in a Strange Land (Audible Exclusive)
- 2018 Le village. La série complète (1st season, volumes 1 to 5 / French version of "Das Dorf") (Audible Exclusive)
- 2019 Das Dorf: The Complete 3rd Season (3rd Season, Volumes 9 to 12) (Audible Original)
Awards and honors
- September 2005: 1st prize in the writing competition of the book journal.
- March 2008: Das System's website is recognized as the best website for a book at the Leipzig Book Fair.
- March 2008: The system is nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize .
- July 2009: The system is nominated for the French crime prize “Prix SNCF du polar”.
- 2018: Nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize 2018
- Several mirror bestsellers
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Olsberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl Olsberg in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Karl Olsberg in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Karl Olsberg's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Briends GmbH: About Briends. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
- ^ Karl-Ludwig Max Hans Freiherr von Wendt, Hamburg - managing director of Briends GmbH. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
- ^ Karl Olsberg: Who is Karl Olsberg? . In: Karl Osberg's blog . www.karlolsberg.twoday.net. April 9, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2009.
- ↑ Michael Krause: Interview with Karl Olsberg . www.buchtips.net. Retrieved November 1, 2009.
- ↑ a b Interview with Karl Olsberg (audio) www.podcast.de. October 10, 2007. Retrieved November 1, 2009.
- ↑ Over 425,000 of the Best Audiobooks & Original Content. In: Audible.com. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
- ^ Karl Olsberg: Achievements . In: Karl Olsberg's blog . Retrieved November 1, 2009.
- ↑ What moves me. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
- ↑ My books. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olsberg, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wendt, Karl-Ludwig Freiherr von (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld |