Author portrait

"Memory is not an archive, but a resonance chamber."

Peter Pranger is the great novelist of German and European history. His historical novels such as "Das Bernstein-Amulette", "Unsere Wunderbaren Jahre" and "Eine Familie in Deutschland" have been translated into 24 languages and sold over three million copies.

Peter Prange, born in 1955, completed 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-builder 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.

His bestseller "The Last Harem" about the birth of modern Turkey was published in 2007, followed in 2016 by his Germany novel "Our Wonderful Years", the history of the Federal Republic of Germany from the first to the last day of the Deutschmark, and in 2018/19 by "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.

His non-fiction book "WERTE", a travel guide through Western cultural history, was used by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her inaugural speech to the European Parliament as President of the EU Council in January 2007 to justify her vision of Europe and was nominated for the "Europe Book Prize".


All books by Peter Prange at a glance


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