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. He keeps his private life guarded, which only deepens my sense that the darkness on the page is conjured by a careful, observant architect rather than a tortured one.

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 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

Origin

Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg

Occupation

writer / journalist / screenwriter / film producer

Awards & achievements

• 2016 Ripper Award

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.sebastianfitzek.de
• Xhttps://x.com/SebastianFitzek
• 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

Tags

• writer
• journalist
• screenwriter

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.