Peter Prange

Peter Prange, born in 1955, earned his doctorate with a thesis on the philosophy and moral history of the Enlightenment. His breakthrough as a novelist with Das Bernstein-Amulett (filmed as a two-parter for ARD) was followed by the historical novels in his world-building decalogy (Die Principessa, Die Philosophin, Die Rebellin, Die Gottessucherin, Himmelsdiebe, Der Kinderpapst, Ich, Maximilian, Die Rose der Welt), in which he recounts a thousand years of European history in epoch-making events. In 2007, his bestseller Der letzte Harem (The Last Harem), about the birth of modern Turkey, was published; in 2016, his Germany novel Unsere wunderbaren Jahre (Our Wonderful Years), the story of the Federal Republic from the first to the last day of the deutschmark; and in 2018/19, Eine Familie in Deutschland (A Family in Germany), the German tragedy of the century from the seizure of power in 1933 to the capitulation in 1945 in two volumes. Peter Prange has also made a name for himself abroad. Translated into 24 languages, his books have now reached a total international circulation of over 3 million copies. His non-fiction book 'Werte', a travel guide through Western cultural history, was used by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her inaugural speech as EU Council President to the European Parliament in January 2007 to justify her vision of Europe and was nominated for the "Europe Book Prize".