Tobias Elsäßer

Tobias Elsäßer (2009)

Tobias Elsäßer (* 1973 in Stuttgart ) is a German author , singer and songwriter for children and young people . He grew up in Leinfelden-Echterdingen and lives in Bietigheim-Bissingen.

Career

As a child Elsäßer was already active as a singer and in 1985 took on a leading role in the children's musical Max and Moritz. From 1992 to 1995 he sang in the band "Chase the Bird". In the meantime he completed his Abitur in 1993 and vocal training with Peter Amadeus Schneider and Dalila Kretschmer . From 1994 to 1996 he completed a commercial apprenticeship before he was active as a member of the boy band Yell 4 You from 1996 to 1998 .

In 1998 Elsäßer took on an internship at the television broadcaster B.TV for two years . In the same year he got a record deal with EMI . Since 1999 Elsäßer has worked as a freelance journalist for the Sat.1 Nachrichten , B.TV, the Evangelical Broadcasting Service Baden , the Bietigheimer Zeitung and the youth magazine JO. In 2000 he was involved in the development and production of the youth TV show Megabyte. Until 2002 Elsäßer also worked as a singing lecturer at the school for pop singing “Go Vocal” in Stuttgart. For Sony he developed the vocal software Popvoice.

In 2004 Tobias Elsäßer presented his partly autobiographical debut novel Boygroup . In his subsequent youth books Ab ins Paradies (2007), Maybe America (2008), Abspringen (2009), For Nobody (2011), How I Almost Became Famous, he stages the connection between music , literature and language .

Works

• Boy band. Arenaverlag, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-401-02716-6 .
• Off to paradise. Sauerländer, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7941-8066-0 .
• Maybe America. Sauerländer, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7941-8079-0 .
• Jump off. Sauerländer, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-7941-8091-2 .
• For nobody. Sauerländer, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-7941-7090-6 .
• How I almost got famous once. Sauerländer, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-411-81130-4 .
• Linus Lindbergh and the Rift in Time. (with illustrations by Stefanie Reich), Sauerländer, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-7373-6280-1 .
• Linus Lindbergh and the robot invasion. (with illustrations by Stefanie Reich), Sauerländer, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-411-81118-2 .
• Linus Lindbergh and the fifth dimension. (with illustrations by Stefanie Reich), Sauerländer, Mannheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-411-81119-9 .
• One. Fischer-Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-7373-6712-7 .
• Stopover . Fischer-Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-7373-5113-3 .

Web links

• Website from Tobias Elsäßer
• Tobias Elsäßer at S. Fischer Verlag
• Interview with buecher-leben.de
• Tobias Elsäßer with the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis
• Literature by and about Tobias Elsäßer in the catalog of the German National Library