Timm Koch

This article is about the writer Timm Koch; on the basketball player see Tim Koch .

Timm Koch (born November 30, 1968 in Bonn ) is a German writer, filmmaker and photographer. Koch lives in Rheinbreitbach .

Live and act

In June 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Koch was one of the first West Germans to move to East Berlin , where he experienced the end of the GDR and the years of reunification as a squatter . In the course of his professional activity, he has traveled to large parts of Latin America , Africa , North America , Europe and the Caribbean . Koch is self-sufficient and maintains a subsistence , holistic lifestyle with beekeeping, hunting, fishing and vegetable growing . He is passionate about nature conservation.

Both his experiences during the fall of the Berlin Wall and his contacts to the diverse cultures of the world find their way into his literary work. Cinematically, he accompanied the marathon swimmer Steve Redmond, who was the first person to master the long-distance swimming challenge Ocean's Seven . This was followed by shooting with the downhill skateboarder Sebastian Hertler. Koch has been writing for Westend Verlag since 2017 .

Works (selection)

Koch illustrates his texts himself. He works with analog technology in small and medium format .

Books

• Two dead in a coffin. Eire Verlag, Salzkotten 2016, ISBN 978-3-943380-46-0 .
• Mr. Bien and his enemies. The life and death of bees. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3-86489-182-3 .
• An Ossi in Ireland. Serialized novel. In: Ireland Journal . Christian Ludwig Verlag, 2016, ISSN  1432-3370 .
• The super molecule. How we are conquering the future with hydrogen. Westend Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt / Main 2019 ISBN 978-3-86489-240-0 .

Movies

• Online Secrets (screenplay), German Center for Drama and Film
• Defeating Ocean's 7 (script and underwater camera ), Red Bull Media House
• Surfing the Dolomites (script, photos and direction), Red Bull Media House

literature

• Sabrina Bauer: Interview with the Rheinbreitbach author. Timm Koch: “Write a series once”. In: General-Anzeiger of July 30, 2016 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de ).

Web links

• Timm cooking in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Timm Koch, author on westendverlag.de. Retrieved March 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Daniel Sampiero: Snowboards? Not in summer. But these longboarders surf down the Alps on asphalt! Retrieved March 7, 2018 .