- Andreas Eschbach was born on September 15, 1959 in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a writer and actor, known for The Last of His Kind, The Hunt for the Hidden Relic (2002) and The Mars Project. He is married to Marianne.
- SpouseMarianne(? - present)
- Studied Aerodynamics at the Technical University of Stuttgart and worked several years as software developer. Until June 1996 CEO of his own IT-counseling company, he lives today as a full-time writer with his familiy near Stuttgart.
- His first published novel 1995, "Die Haarteppichknüpfer" (The Hair Carpet Makers), won 1996 one of the highest awards of German science fiction, the SFCD-Literaturpreis. His second novel, "Solarstation", 1996, won the other great German science fiction award, the Kurd Laßwitz Preis. His third novel finally, "Jesus Video", won both of them, became a nationwide bestseller in the year 2000 and was turned into a movie in 2002.
- His first translation into another language happened 1998, when "Die Haarteppichknüpfer" was published in France as "Des milliards des tapis de cheveux". It was not only the first German science fiction novel to be published in France after 18 years, it also won two literary prizes in France and Belgium. Several novels and short stories have been translated since then, into French, Italian, Czech and English. Translations into Japanese, Russian and Turkish are under way.
- Working literary since his 12th year, mostly novels, but also short stories. Various publications of short prose in literary periodicals. In 1994 scholarship holder of the Arno-Schmidt-Foundation "for literary highly gifted young writers".
- Father of a son (1983)
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