Oliver Pötzsch

Oliver Pötzsch (born December 20, 1970 in Munich ) is a German writer and film author.

Life

After graduating from high school, Oliver Pötzsch attended the German School of Journalism in Munich from 1992 to 1997 . He then worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk , initially in the radio department, and later for the weekly television program across the board. In addition, Pötzsch produced television reports on Cuba , South Africa , Vietnam and other countries for the Bayerischer Rundfunk's leisure magazine. Oliver Pötzsch has been working full-time as an author since 2013.

In addition to his professional activity, Pötzsch researched his family history. He is a descendant of the Kuisls , who were a well-known executioner dynasty in Schongau from the 16th to the 19th century . This research resulted in eight historical novels about the Schongau hangman Jakob Kuisl and his daughter Magdalena. The Ludwig Conspiracy was published in 2011 in the 125th year of death of the Bavarian King Ludwig II . The detective novel takes place on two time levels - in the time of Ludwig II and in the present - and describes the discovery of the diary of a confidante of King Ludwig. In his historical novel The Castle of the Kings from 2013 he made the legendary Stauferburg Trifels the focus of the action.

With Knight Kuno Kettenstrumpf , Pötzsch published his first children's book in 2014 , and in 2015 his first youth book The Black Musketeers - The Book of the Night , a historical adventure story at the time of the Thirty Years War.

In his 2016 book Meine Kur hat eine Schatten. How I survived rehab after a heart operation despite country evenings and beer dealers , the author wrote down his experiences in rehab, which he had to visit a few years ago to regenerate after a bypass operation. The book shows rehab in all its facets, from the funny and absurd moments to the serious aspects.

In 2018, the historical novel Der Spielmann was the first volume of a planned Faustus saga . The second volume in the series about the historical Johann Georg Faustus followed in 2019 under the title Der Lehrmeister .

Pötzsch's books have appeared in more than 20 countries, including China, the USA and Russia. More than 3 million books and e-books have been sold worldwide. In addition, Oliver Pötzsch is the first German-speaking author whose English-language licensed editions of his Hangman's Daughter series have sold over 1 million copies at the US publisher Amazon Publishing.

In his spare time he sings in the soul band "Jamasunited" and in various other music projects.

Awards

• 2014 Golden Homer in the Crime & Thriller category for The Witcher and the Hangman's Daughter
• 2014 Silver Homer in the Relationship & Society category for The Castle of the Kings

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The hangman's daughter saga

• The hangman's daughter. Ullstein , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-26852-1 . The French translation (“La fille du bourreau”, 2014) received the 2015 literary prize Prix ​​Historia 2015 du roman policier historique .
• The hangman's daughter and the black monk. Ullstein , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-26853-8 .
• The hangman's daughter and the king of beggars. Ullstein , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-548-28114-8 .
• The witcher and the hangman's daughter. Ullstein , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-548-28115-5 , audio book Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86909-136-5 .
• The hangman's daughter and the devil of Bamberg. Ullstein , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-548-28448-4 , audio book Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89903-890-3 .
• The hangman's daughter and the game of death. Ullstein , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-548-28737-9 , audio book Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95713-005-1 .
• The hangman's daughter and the council of twelve. Ullstein , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-548-28837-6 , audio book Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-95713-067-9 .
• The hangman's daughter and the curse of the plague. Ullstein , Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-548-29196-3 , audio book Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8449-2410-7 .

The Faustus series

• The minstrel - the story of Johann Georg Faustus . Paul List Verlag , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-4713-5159-8 .
• The teacher - the story of Johann Georg Faustus 2 . Paul List Verlag , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-4713-5160-4 .

Other works

• The Ludwig conspiracy. Ullstein , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-548-28290-9 .
• The castle of the kings . Paul List Verlag , Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-471-35083-7 , audio book Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86909-157-0 .
• Knight Kuno chain stocking . Thienemann Verlag , Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-522-18393-2 , audio book Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86742-263-5 .
• Knight Kuno chain stocking and the mysterious message in a bottle . Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-522-18404-5 .
• The Black Musketeers - The Book of Night. arsEdition , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8458-0503-0 .
• My cure has a shadow. How I survived rehab after a heart operation despite country evenings and beer dealers . mvg Verlag , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86882-663-0 .
• The black musketeers - the sword of power. arsEdition , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8458-1428-5 .
• In the footsteps of the hangman's daughter - travel guide to the locations of my novels . Hirschkäfer Verlag , Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-940839-73-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Executioner's father cracks the million mark. In: Börsenblatt of June 18, 2013.
2. ↑ "Prix Historia 2015" ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 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. on historia.fr (accessed September 28, 2015). 

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Pötzsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Oliver Pötzsch
• Oliver Pötzsch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• "The Amazon": Portrait of Oliver Pötzsch ( PDF) (brand eins, 09/2012)