Ferdinand von Schirach

Ferdinand von Schirach is the rare lawyer-turned-writer whose courtroom years clearly fuel the fiction. He didn't publish until forty-five, then Crime and The Collini Case made him one of Germany's biggest authors, translated into dozens of languages. What hooks me is the spare, clinical prose and the moral questions he refuses to resolve neatly, never more so than in Terror, which literally lets the audience deliver a verdict. He's German, Munich-born 1964, not American as the data says, and yes, his family name carries a heavy Nazi-era history he's reckoned with publicly. A genuinely thought-provoking writer about guilt and law.

Name (English)

Ferdinand von Schirach

Name (Japanese)

フェルディナント・フォン・シーラッハ

Reading

ふぇるでぃなんと・ふぉん・しーらっは

Born

May 12, 1964 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

Origin

Munich, Upper Bavaria, Germany

Occupation

lawyer / writer / short story writer / novelist / jurist

University

University of Bonn

Awards & achievements

• 2010 Kleist Prize
• 2011 Berliner Bär
• 2015 Bavarian TV Awards
• 2018 Ricarda-Huch-Preis
• 2012 Japan Booksellers' Award

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.schirach.de
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%8F

Tags

• Upper Bavaria
• lawyer
• writer
• short story writer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.