Andreas Eschbach was born on 15 September 1959 in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a writer and actor, known for Jesus Video 3D, The Last of His Kind and The Mars Project. He is married to Marianne.
His first published novel 1995, "Die Haarteppichknüpfer" (The Hair
Carpet Makers), won 1996 one of the highest awards of German science
fiction, the SFCD-Literaturpreis. His second novel, "Solarstation",
1996, won the other great German science fiction award, the Kurd
Laßwitz Preis. His third novel finally, "Jesus Video", won both of
them, became a nationwide bestseller in the year 2000 and was turned
into a movie in 2002.
