Wolfgang Hohlbein

Wolfgang Hohlbein is a German novelist who writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, thrillers and historical fiction. Born in Weimar in 1953, he worked as an industrial clerk and night watchman before becoming a full-time writer in 1982, the year he and his wife Heike published the fantasy novel Märchenmond.

That book began a children's and young-adult series that remains his best known work. He also wrote the Der Hexer pulp horror series, the Enwor fantasy cycle and tie-in novels such as Indiana Jones und die gefiederte Schlange. He has published more than 200 books and lives near Düsseldorf.