Tom Hillenbrand

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Tom Hillenbrand during a reading in Luxembourg (June 2013)
Tom Hillenbrand during a reading in Luxembourg (November 2014)

Tom Hillenbrand , actually Thomas Hillenbrand (* 1972 in Hamburg ), is a German journalist and writer .

life and work

Tom Hillenbrand studied politics and economics. He then volunteered at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists .

Hillenbrand wrote for Handelsblatt , Spiegel Online , Financial Times Deutschland , Business Punk and Wired Deutschland , among others . He worked as a business editor for Spiegel Online , where from 2007 to 2010 he was also head of the "Auto" department.

At Spiegel Online he wrote various columns, including the customer column "Waiting loop" from 2011 to 2017 under the pseudonym Tom König.

His farewell letter to Hamburg met with a positive response. The blog post was made the cover story by the Hamburger Morgenpost.

In 2011 Kiepenheuer & Witsch published Hillenbrand's first novel Teufelsfrucht: A culinary thriller . The book is set in the restaurant environment. The protagonist is the Luxembourg chef Xavier Kieffer, who is involved in a murder case. The book topped Luxembourg's bestseller list for months and was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize for best debut . In the following years, other parts of the Kieffer series appeared with Red Gold , Last Harvest , Deadly Olives and Dangerous Recommendations .

In 2013 Hillenbrand started the crowdfunding project Drachenväter together with Konrad Lischka , with the aim of publishing an illustrated cultural history of the pen & paper role-playing game . The authors raised over 20,000 euros with their campaign and the book was published in 2014.

In 2014 Hillenbrand published the science fiction novel Drhnenland, a crime thriller that deals with total surveillance and prediction. The book was on Die Zeit 's best crime thriller list for several months . It was recognized as the best novel at the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2015 and received the Kurd Laßwitz Prize 2015 in the category "Best German Science Fiction Novel with First Edition 2014". At the end of 2015, Monsieur Leclerq's drones, a collection of columns from the German edition of the technology magazine Wired , set in the fictional world of the novel.

In 2016 Hillenbrand published the novel The Coffee Thief , which deals with cryptology, letter surveillance and the information society in the Baroque era.

The science fiction crime thriller Hologrammatica , published in 2018, was voted the best German-language science fiction novel in 2019. The follow-up novel Qube was published in early 2020.

In his podcast Die Backlist , Hillenbrand presents books that have disappeared from the public eye, but are, in his opinion, absolutely worth reading. B. The Dumas Club, The Drought and many more.

Since the author did not want to cancel his reading tour planned for March 2020 due to the Corona crisis, he simply moved it to the Twitch streaming service.

Tom Hillenbrand is currently working on a business thriller and plans to finish the manuscript in summer 2020. He lives in Munich.

Publications

Xavier Kieffer crime novels

Honors

Web links

Commons : Tom Hillenbrand  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Tom Hillenbrand's curriculum vitae on his website. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  2. Thomas Hillenbrand (37) ( Memento from July 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Short portrait at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists.
  3. Corpse between canapés and luxury fish. In: Tageblatt, Luxembourg. Retrieved September 7, 2016 .
  4. Topic page: Waiting loop - My life as a customer . In: Spiegel Online from May 15, 2012.
  5. ^ Portrait of the author at Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Tom König . Retrieved on: May 15, 2012.
  6. Facebook post: - End of the column . In: Facebook from May 24, 2017.
  7. ^ "Hamburg, not a pearl". Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  8. Tom Hillenbrand's hate letter causes a stir. Retrieved December 16, 2012.
  9. Nominations for the Glauser Prize 2012 ( Memento from April 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. Dragon Fathers. The history of the role play. Startnext, accessed on September 7, 2016 .
  11. Tom Hillenbrand: Here we go. Startnext, accessed on September 7, 2016 .
  12. ^ Page of the book at the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch
  13. ^ Zeit Online: The ten best crime novels in July 2014
  14. Crime prizes of the authors' group of German-language crime literature (Syndikat) ( Memento from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ^ Winner of the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 2015
  16. http://www.tomhillenbrand.de/die-drohnen-des-monsieur-leclerq/
  17. Kaffeedieb: - Page of the book at the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch . In: Spiegel Online from May 15, 2012.
  18. Imagine the world was a single selfie beauty filter. May 27, 2018, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  19. The winners. Science Fiction Club Deutschland eV, accessed on February 14, 2020 .
  20. Qube. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  21. Twitch. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .