Marc Elsberg

Marcus Rafelsberger (2016)

Marc Elsberg (born January 3, 1967 in Vienna , actually Marcus Rafelsberger ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Marc Elsberg was born in Vienna in 1967 and grew up in Baden (Lower Austria) . There he attended the grammar school Biondekgasse and graduated in 1985 with the Matura , then he began to study industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . Elsberg worked as a strategy consultant and creative director in the advertising industry , including for agencies in Vienna and Hamburg . He has received awards from the Creativ Club Austria , among others, for his work . At the same time he began to design a column for the daily newspaper Der Standard under the title “No advertisement from Marcus Rafelsberger” .

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Marc Elsberg made his literary debut in 2000, at that time still under his real name Marcus Rafelsberger, with the satirical novel Saubermann in the Berlin Espresso publishing house, which is about a run-down detergent . 2004 appeared in Cologne Emons Verlag with the principle third a detective story in which the same Commissioner the death of the chief of an advertising agency must make clear. Other works by Marc Elsberg were Menschenteufel (2009) and Wienerherz (2011).

Marc Elsberg achieved greater fame with the thriller Blackout - Tomorrow is too late , in which he creates the scenario of a widespread power supply collapse and its consequences. The book received mostly positive reviews, including the Handelsblatt describing it as a "grippingly narrated thriller". Bild der Wissenschaft judged that the plot was "well researched and described realistically". 2013 was one of the "10 books to read that you need this summer," the iBookstore , also was blackout for several years on the bestseller list of the mirror . In July 2013 it reached second place in the top. The novel has been sold over a million times in German-speaking countries alone and has been translated into several languages. In addition, received Blackout award Knowledge Book of the Year 2012 in the Entertainment category. This is awarded by a jury of renowned science journalists on the initiative of Bild der Wissenschaft .

The sixth book by Marc Elsberg is titled Zero - They know what you're doing and deals with the topics of big data and data protection . On June 9, 2014, the title reached number three on the Spiegel bestseller list in the hardcover fiction category. This book was also named Knowledge Book of the Year - 2014 in the category “Entertainment”. Elsberg was the first author to receive the award twice.

The seventh book, entitled Helix - They Will Replace Us, deals with genetics .

In Greed - How Far Would You Go? Elsberg deals with economic concepts, findings and theories and the consideration of whether comprehensive cooperation between economic partners and branches of industry could lead to greater prosperity. It was based on scientific work on the ergonomic economy of a group led by Ole Peters at the London Mathematical Laboratory , supported by Nobel Prize winners Murray Gell-Mann and Ken Arrow (afterword).

Works

as Marcus Rafelsberger:

• Clean man . Espresso, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88520-781-8 .
• The principle of thirds . Commissioner Terz's first case. Emons, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-351-9 .
• Human devil . Emons, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89705-668-8 .
• Viennese heart . Emons, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-89705-839-2 .

as Marc Elsberg:

• Blackout - Tomorrow will be too late . Blanvalet, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7645-0445-8 .
• Zero - you know what you're doing . Blanvalet, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7645-0492-2 .
• Helix - you will replace us . Blanvalet, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7645-0564-6 .
• Greed - How Far Would You Go? Blanvalet, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7645-0632-2 .

Web links

Commons : Marc Elsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Marc Elsberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Marc Elsberg at perlentaucher.de
• Official website of Marc Elsberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marc Elsberg. Random House Publishing Group, accessed March 31, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Gabi Stockmann: Ex-Biondekgassler as a bestselling author. In: BezirksBlätter. October 23, 2013, accessed March 31, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Biondek literature. Read graduates. Badener Kulturgymnasium, accessed on March 31, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Claudia Zettel: A total power failure is realistic. In: futurezone. April 3, 2012, accessed March 31, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Marcus Rafelsberger. In: Pearl Divers. Retrieved March 31, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Marcus Rafelsberger. Amazon, accessed March 31, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Marc Elsberg. In: literaturtipps.de. Retrieved March 31, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Satirical novel. (No longer available online.) Espresso, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on March 31, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Jörg Kijanski: The principle of thirds. In: Crime Couch. February 2007, accessed March 31, 2014 (review). 
10. ↑ Alexander Neubacher, Tobias Schulze, Michael Stürzenhofecker: Canned bread and crank lamp . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 2013, p. 44-45 ( online ).
11. ^ Arnulf Ramcke: Oppressive and exciting. “Black Out” by Marc Elsberg. In: newsline. Westdeutsche Zeitung, July 15, 2013, accessed April 1, 2014 . 
12. ↑ The world without electricity. In: Handelsblatt. June 10, 2012, accessed March 31, 2014 . 
13. ↑ Encouraging winners . The newly elected knowledge books of the year. In: Image of Science . No. 12 , 2012, p. 66 ff . ( Wissenschaft.de [accessed April 1, 2014]).
14. ↑ 10 books to read this summer. (PDF; 182 kB) In: iBookstore. Apple, accessed April 1, 2014 . 
15. ↑ bestseller placements (hardcover / fiction). In: book report. Retrieved August 24, 2016 . 
16. ↑ bestseller placements (paperback / fiction). In: book report. Retrieved August 24, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Paperback 28/2013. Der Spiegel, July 9, 2013, archived from the original on July 9, 2013 ; Retrieved April 1, 2014 . 
18. ↑ Matthias Iken : When the power fails . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . January 30, 2013, p. 6/7 .
19. ↑ The “Knowledge Books of the Year” 2012 have been determined. In: BuchMarkt. November 21, 2012, accessed April 1, 2014 . 
20. ↑ The choice is yours! In: Image of Science. Retrieved August 24, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Thomas Jüngling: The programmers are also losing control. In: The world . March 11, 2014, accessed April 1, 2014 . 
22. ↑ ZERO. You know what you are doing. Placements hardcover / fiction . ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Book report 
23. ↑ The most exciting knowledge book of 2014 is "Zero" by Marc Elsberg. In: book report. November 24, 2014, accessed August 24, 2016 . 
24. ↑ HELIX. They will replace us. October 24, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2016 . 
25. ^ Marc Elsberg: The cooperation plus. A paradigm shift. In: Bonner Perspektiven. Edition 01/2019. Bonn Academy for Research and Teaching of Practical Politics (BAPP), 2019, accessed on January 8, 2020 . 
26. ^ London Mathematical Laboratory - Economics. Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
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28. ↑ GREED. How far would you go? July 22, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .