SEBASTIAN FITZEK
Discover what it means when nightmares become reality – welcome to my world.
Spine-chilling… Masterful… Brilliant.
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Church of the Holy Cross,
Bochumer Straße 115
45886 Gelsenkirchen
Heinz-Hilpert-Theater
Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 39
44532 Lünen
Sebastian Fitzek is the most successful German bestselling author, whose works have sold more than 19 million copies and have been published in more than 36 countries. He began his career in radio, later studying law and gaining a doctorate in copyright law. In 2006, he published his first psychological thriller „Therapy“, which became a bestseller, as did all subsequent books. Between 2014 and 2021, Sebastian Fitzek was the most successful German author of the year six times. In 2023, his books „The invitation“ and „Parent’s Eve” were the best-selling books of the year. Many of his books have been successfully adapted for film and television series, such as „Therapy“ (Prime Video) as a six-part mini-series, which mmediately became the number one most-watched German-language series and TOP 10 hit in thirty countries for several weeks, including the USA. Also, many of his works have been the subject of several theater adaptations, including „Soulbreaker“, „Therapy“ and „Passenger 23“. Sebastian Fitzek is also known for his spectacular book launches, which he stages as shows and fills Germany’s largest arenas with.
Fitzek has twice been nominated for the Glauser Prize and has been awarded the Golden Lovelybooks Readers’ Prize several times. He also received the Hörkules and won the European Prize for Crime Literature in 2016. He lives with his family in Berlin.
Spine-chilling… Masterful… Brilliant.