Wolfgang Hohlbein

• Name — Wolfgang Hohlbein • Born — 15 August 1953 • Birthplace — Weimar, Thuringia, East Germany • Occupation — Novelist • Notable Works — Magic Moon series • Genre — Fantasy, science fiction, horror, thriller, children's literature, movie tie-in books, pulp fiction • Spouse — Heike Hohlbein • Website — hohlbein.net

Wolfgang Hohlbein was born on 15 August 1953 in Weimar, Bezirk Erfurt. After finishing school, he took an apprenticeship as industrial clerk, a profession he then worked in for the following years. To bolster his income, he also worked as night watchman. It was during this period when he started to write his early works, to pass the time faster. In 1971 he met his wife Heike, whom he would marry three years later. Together they raised six children, including Rebecca Hohlbein (*1977), who would become an author as well. In 1982 he quit his job to work as a full-time author. Shortly after, he and his family moved to his wife's birth town of Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, where they live to this day.[1][2] In 2014 the German TV channel RTL II launched a reality show called Die Hohlbeins – Eine total fantastische Familie (The Hohlbein's, a fantastic family), which aimed to show the life of the Hohlbein family in the a docusoap format. The show garnered about 910,000 viewers during the first episode, but after a fast drop-off in viewers and negative criticism of being too trivial and boring it was cancelled soon after.[4][5]

Writing short stories since a young age, Hohlbein was first recognized as an author after sending in a manuscript he and his wife had written at a fantasy and science fiction writing contest in 1982. They won and their book, Märchenmond (English title: "Magic Moon"), was published by Ueberreuter Verlag, soon becoming a bestseller and winning several awards. In the following years the Hohlbein's wrote two sequels to the book, continuing their success. The trilogy remains their greatest success until today and sold more than 2 million copies. He's also a writer of pulp fiction, including the series Der Hexer (The Warlock), which he conceived in 1984 for the magazine Gespenster-Krimi (Ghost Thriller) published by Bastei Lübbe, mainly based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, and of which he wrote the majority of novels initially under the collective pen name of Robert Craven. Later the series was reedited and republished as paperbacks, which collected the stories of several pulp magazines, including a prequel, and as e-books both under Hohlbein's own name. Hohlbein primarily writes in the genre of fantasy, horror and historical fiction. Since the success of Märchenmond Hohlbein had published more than 200 books. He sometimes cooperates with other authors like Dieter Winkler or his daughter Rebecca Hohlbein. His most important source of inspiration is his wife Heike Hohlbein, who is credited as co-author on more than 30 of his books. In his early days, Hohlbein also wrote a lot of paperback stories for various magazines and also often used a pseudonym. Later he focused more on stand-alone novels as well as some long-running book series, like the Enwor saga or the still not finished Chronik der Unsterblichen (Chronicles of the Immortals). Apart from his own creations, Hohlbein also wrote various tie-in books for such franchises as Indiana Jones, Stargate and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Wolfgang Hohlbein is recorded with the occupation industrial management assistant. Recorded with the occupation science fiction writer. Classed in the genre horror literature. Classed in the genre science fiction. Classed in the genre fantasy. Recorded as writer, science fiction writer, industrial management assistant and translator.