Philipp Schmidt (Author)
Philipp Schmidt (born November 29, 1982 in Breisach am Rhein ) is a German writer and journalist .
Life
Schmidt was born in Breisach am Rhein. He studied philosophy and German in Tübingen , where he lives with his partner and son. Schmidt has been a full-time writer since 2013 . He also works as a journalist for the Schwäbisches Tagblatt .
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His writing activities include narrative works, mostly in the various varieties of fantasy . But he also uses the genres of crime and horror . A narrative technique used in most stories is the cross genre , mostly a mixture of fantasy and other elements. He prefers to write series and novel cycles and is an extremely prolific writer. 29 books have been published since 2013 (as of September 2018), 17 of them in different series.
His first fantasy novel, Raven Whispering , was published in 2013, followed by a second part two years later, Crow Dance , from the same cycle, God Eye . This first cycle was dedicated to classic fantasy themes and mixed them with a rough and pointedly dirty language - untypical for the genre .
Also in 2013 he started the series of shadow plants , which was laid out in nine parts and which he completed in 2015. The cycle combines sci-fi , in the narrower sense dystopia and cyberpunk , with elements of fantasy, especially the use of magic in a high-tech world is striking. The series has a clear anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal message. At the end of 2017, the short film SCHATTENGEWÄCHSE - Showdown at ARCADI was made , which offers an insight into the world of shadow plants.
In 2018 the author devoted himself again to cyberpunk with the single volume Cybiz: The Color of Night . The novel, however, is not a continuation of the shadow plants series , but stands for itself.
In 2015 the first volume of the historical fantasy Das Reich des Johannes - Pela Dir was published . The novel refers to the mystical priest king John , whose alleged letter Joannis presbiteri Epistola was mentioned for the first time in 1165. The second part of the series followed in 2017: Fennmark .
The first two volumes of the series Der Traumermittler appeared in 2016 . The series combines classic elements of the crime novel with the genre of mystery . So the investigator solves his cases in a dream, through the use of lucid dreaming , or lucid dreaming.
Similar to shadow plants, the wasteland saga , which appears in 2017, also takes place in a dystopian future, which is noticeably based on Mad Max and combines the genres of western , post-apocalypse and fantasy. While the plot of the first volume is reminiscent of a road movie , the second volume plays at a fixed location in Prak-City - obviously based on the Czech capital Prague and provided with many motifs and myths of the city. The series was completed in 2017 with the fourth volume.
In 2018 the political arabesque Between the Chairs , the author's first political novel, was published . The tone of the novel is strongly feminist and portrays the landscape of the German political talk programs. Also in 2018 was the fantasy novel Der Grenzwächter , which can be attributed to the genre Contemporary Fantasy or Urban Fantasy. The idea popularized by Neil Gaiman that gods depend on the beliefs of people is contrasted here with a different concept.
As a prequel for the "Violent Earth" series, Schmidt contributed two volumes and wrote the individual volumes Escape from the Underworld - An end-of-time western fantasy that takes place in a cave system underground, as well as the fantastic novel Master of Dark Paths . The latter is apparently based on the shooting of the film The Crow and begins after the death of the main actor Brandon Lee in the book [bʀanˌdɔn] and establishes itself as a classic underworld journey .
From May 31, 2017 to May 23, 2018, his 52-episode regional thriller Schwarz in Schwarz was published weekly on Wednesdays in the daily Anzeiger des Schwäbisches Tagblatt. The novel was published as a print on July 29, 2018, with numerous black and white illustrations.
Publications (selection)
Rows
The kingdom of John
- Pela Dir (Volume 1), Ferge Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-1514302194
- Fennmark (Volume 2), Ferge Verlag, 2017
The dream investigator
- Unter Birken (Volume 1), Ferge Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-1523375295
- Behind Flames (Volume 2), Ferge Verlag, 2016
The Wasteland Saga (Completed)
- Rulers of the Blood Desert (Volume 1), Ferge Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3743179981
- Fear and Terror in Prak City (Volume 2), Ferge Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3744816922
- For a handful of quins (Volume 3), Ferge Verlag, 2017
- In the shadow of the black pyramid (Volume 4), Ferge Verlag, 2017
God eye
- Raven Whispers (Volume 2), Begedia Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3943795639
- Crowdance (Volume 1), Begedia Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3957770455
Shadows (completed)
- Prelude (Volume 1), Writers on the Wallside, third edition 2017, ISBN 978-3744818056
- The Triad Queen (Volume 2), Writers on the Wallside, Third Edition 2017, ISBN 978-3744819787
- Alles auf Zero (Volume 3), second edition 2015, ISBN 978-1519411327
- Back in the Gossen (Volume 4), second edition 2015, ISBN 978-1519423009
- All In (Volume 5), second edition 2015, ISBN 978-1519470911
- The hard way (Volume 6), second edition 2015, ISBN 978-1519496140
- To the Last Bit (Volume 7), second edition 2015, ISBN 978-1519534392
- Aufstand (Volume 8), second edition 2015, ISBN 978-1519552730
- To the Stars (Volume 9), second edition 2015, ISBN 978-1519561350
Single volumes (selection)
- The border guard , TWENTYSIX, 2018, ISBN 978-3740744762
- Cybiz: The Color of the Night , Ferge Verlag, 2018
- Black in Black: A Tübingen Regional Crime, TWENTYSIX, 2018, ISBN 978-3740746797
- Between the Chairs: A Political Arabesque , 2018, ISBN 978-1719164375
- Master of the Dark Path , A fantastic novel, paperback, Amrûn Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3958692626
Children's books
- Der kleine Nachtmahr , Ferge Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3744870849
Web links
- Literature by and about Philipp Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Philipp Schmidt
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, screenwriter and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Breisach on the Rhine |