Markus Heitz

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Markus Heitz - Lucca Comics & Games 2014
Markus Heitz at the Perry Rhodan World Con 2011 in Mannheim

Markus Heitz (born October 10, 1971 in Homburg ) is a German fantasy , horror and science fiction author. With more than 5 million books sold in Germany alone, Heitz is one of the most successful German fantasy authors.

Life

After Heitz 1991 his Abitur at the private Catholic school Johanneum completed in Homburg and his the following year military service in Bexbach had done, he studied until 2000 German and history , first to teachers , then a master's degree . The Protestant then worked as a freelance journalist for the Saarbrücker Zeitung . He has been a freelance writer since his breakthrough in 2003.

Create

In 2002 Heitz published his debut novel Die Dunkle Zeit 1 - Shadows over Ulldart , for which he received the German Fantasy Prize in 2003 in the category Best Novel Debut National . His final breakthrough came with the novel Die Zwerge in 2003.

In 2005, Heitz, in collaboration with the Pegasus Press publishing house, revived the adventure game book , a popular genre of the 1980s. Here the reader decides for himself how the main character proceeds in order to survive an adventure. Since then, game books have been published, the plot of which is set alternately in the worlds of the Ulldart novels and the dwarf novels. The author of the first two game books was Heitz himself, the later ones were created in collaboration with Nicole Schuhmacher (adventure game book in the secure land of the dwarves) and Sonja Rüther (adventure game book in Ulldart).

The Justifiers role-playing game system was developed in the USA in 1988. Markus Heitz secured the rights and, together with other authors, developed a modernized version of the role-playing game, which has since been discontinued. However, a series of novels and comics based on it continues.

Between 2002 and 2005 Heitz wrote a total of six novels and a short story for the Heyne series on the role-playing game Shadowrun . The two edited volumes Schattenjäger and Schattenläufer summarize the six loosely connected novels.

As a guest author, Heitz wrote volume 2615 of the Perry Rhodan series under the title Death Hunt on Rhodan , which was published in 2011 for the PERRY-RHODAN-WeltCon on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the series.

Heitz wrote the libretto for " Timm Thaler - Das Musical " with music and lyrics by Xavier Naidoo and Michael Herberger , which was published in 2012 by Gallissas Theaterverlag . The musical is based on the novel Timm Thaler by James Krüss .

Personal

Heitz lives in Homburg. For a time he ran an Irish pub in Zweibrücken . He is a passionate cook, which is why some of his books contain recipes for specially created food and drinks in the appendix.

Awards (selection)

German Fantastic Prize:

  • 2003: Best Novel Debut National for Die Dunkle Zeit 1 - Shadows over Ulldart
  • 2005: Best National Novel for The War of the Dwarfs
  • 2006: Best National Novel for The Dwarfs Revenge
  • 2007: Best National Novel for The Forces of Fire
  • 2007: Best series for Ulldart - Time for the New
  • 2009: Best German-language novel for Das Schicksal der Zwerge
  • 2010: Best German-language novel for Die Legenden der Albae 1 - Gerechter Zorn
  • 2011: Best German-language novel for Daughters of Juda
  • 2012: Best German-language novel for Die Legenden der Albae 2 - Vernichtender Hass
  • 2017: Best German-language comic for Die Zwerge (II): The Contender to the Throne

Bibliography (selection)

Novels

  • Ulldart:Main article: Ulldart
    • Die Dunkle Zeit , 6 volumes, Piper-Verlag 2002–2009, partly also in the Hörbuch-Verlag 2008–2012
    • The time of the new , 3 volumes, Piper-Verlag 2006–2009
  • Vampires! Vampires! - Everything about bloodsuckers . Piper-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-29181-1
  • Wédōra - Dust and Blood , Droemer Knaur , Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-65403-3 , audio book Audible 2016
  • Wédōra - Shadow and Death , Droemer Knaur, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-65436-1 , audio book Audible 2017
  • Doors , 2 seasons, Droemer Knaur-Verlag 2018, Audible 2018
  • Pact of Darkness (also League of Darkness), 10 volumes, Droemer Knaur-Verlag 2006–2015, audio books from Lagato-Verlag, Argon-Verlag, Bastei Lübbe-Verlag, audio media, and Audible
  • Reflections , audio book, Audible 2017
  • The devil's prayer book . Knaur, 2017, ISBN 978-3426654194 , Audiobook Audible 2017
  • The blade of doom . Knaur, 2018, ISBN 978-3426654484 , audio book Audible
  • The Dark Lands , Knaur Verlag 2019, Audiobook Audible 2019
  • The Master: The Beginning , Knaur, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3426517833

The Salvaged Land, Ishím Voróo and Phondrason

The dwarfs

Main article: The dwarfs

The legends of the Albae

Shadowrun

see also: List of Shadowrun novels

Suspense / horror / thriller

Short stories

Web links

Commons : Markus Heitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Publishing information . Droemer Knaur. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  2. Markus Heitz: Vampires! Vampires! . Piper Verlag , 2008. p. 108.
  3. a b German Fantastic Prize . Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  4. Markus Heitz: Memories came up Article on musicalzentrale.de from April 4, 2012, accessed on April 4, 2012
  5. Why a menu inspires a fantasy writer , saarbruecker-zeitung.de, accessed on March 22, 2020
  6. Person , mahet.de, accessed on March 22, 2020