Kurd Laßwitz Award
1 appearances
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Edition 25 (2005) Winner
Frank Schätzing
フランク・シェッチング
Furanku Shatchingu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1957-05-28 （Cologne）
- Nationality
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Residence History
- Cologne
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Advertising agency owner
- Active Years
- 1995-2024
- Affiliations
- INTEVI
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Goldene Feder | Der Schwarm | — | — | winner |
| 2005 | Deutscher Science Fiction Preis | Der Schwarm | — | — | winner |
| 2005 | Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis | Der Schwarm | — | — | winner |
| 2004 | Corine | — | belletristic literature | — | winner |
| 2007 | Premio Bancarella | The Swarm | — | — | winner |
Goldene Feder
2005
Work:
Der Schwarm
Result:
winner
Deutscher Science Fiction Preis
2005
Work:
Der Schwarm
Result:
winner
Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
2005
Work:
Der Schwarm
Result:
winner
Corine
2004
Category:
belletristic literature
Result:
winner
Premio Bancarella
2007
Work:
The Swarm
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Premio Bancarella
1 appearances
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Edition 55 (2007) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Swarm
2004 Science fiction thrillerA science fiction thriller in which marine organisms rebel against humanity.
marine lifeenvironmental destructionhuman hubris
Adaptations
- [TV series] The Swarm / Barbara Eder, Luke Watson, Philipp Stölzl (2023)
Limit
2009 Hard science fictionA story about helium-3 mining on the Moon in the future.
space explorationenergy crisisscientific ethics
Tod und Teufel (Death and the Devil)
1995 Historical novelA historical thriller set in the Middle Ages.
Middle Agesmurderconspiracy
Bibliography
- Tod und Teufel
- Mordshunger
- Die dunkle Seite
- Lautlos
- Der Schwarm
- Limit
- Breaking News
- Die Tyrannei des Schmetterlings
Adaptations
- Die dunkle Seite (TV movie, 2008, dir. Peter Keglevic)
- Mordshunger (TV movie, 2008, dir. Robert Adrian Pejo)
- The Swarm (TV series, 2023)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- detailed scientific and technical descriptionscomplex plot structuressuspenseful narrative
- Recurring Motifs
- conflict between science and natureglobal crisesunknown threats
Legacy
One of Germany's leading science fiction thriller writers, best known for the worldwide bestseller The Swarm, which sold millions of copies. Renowned for grand narratives grounded in scientific facts.
Trivia
- Began writing in the 1980s, but early works unpublished.
- Founded and ran the advertising agency INTEVI.
- Critical of the TV adaptation of The Swarm.