Sebastian Fitzek

What grabs me about Fitzek is the sheer audacity of his arrival: a Berlin-born former journalist whose debut, Therapy, knocked The Da Vinci Code off the German number-one spot. That is not a fluke, it is craftsmanship. I suspect his years interviewing real people taught him exactly where the human mind cracks, and he weaponises that knowledge into psychological thrillers that refuse to let go. The 2016 Ripper Award feels like a formality. My sense is that the darkness on the page is conjured by a careful, observant architect rather than a tortured one.

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Name (English)

Sebastian Fitzek

Name (Japanese)

セバスチャン・フィツェック

Reading

せばすちゃん・ふぃつぇっく

Born

October 13, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Berlin, Germany

Occupation

writer / journalist / screenwriter / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

Awards & achievements

• 2016 Ripper Award

• Official sitehttps://www.sebastianfitzek.de
• Xhttps://x.com/SebastianFitzek
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Fitzek
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%90%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%84%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67216

Tags

• writer
• journalist
• screenwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.