Johannes Groschupf

Johannes Groschupf was born in Braunschweig in 1963 and grew up in Lüneburg. He studied German literature, American studies and journalism at Freie Universität Berlin, and worked for many years as a freelance travel journalist, including for Die Zeit, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau. Following a helicopter crash in the Sahara in 1994, he created the radio feature “Der Absturz,” which received the Robert Geisendörfer Prize in 1999. Groschupf later published mainly young adult books and thrillers. His thrillers have received numerous awards, including two first-place and one second-place ranking in the German Crime Fiction Prize.