The Wonderful World of Fantasy Fantasy – that are tales of wizard and heroes, of dragons, elves, and dwarves, of invented worlds and private mythologies, of a world as it could have been but never was. Defining fantasy is just as difficult as taming a dragon. In the last decades, the classical genre of “high fantasy” has been augmented and partly supplemented by a multitude of other genres, sub-genres, and micro-genres: “dark fantasy”, “urban fantasy”, “romantasy”, “steampunk” and others of that ilk. Even the borderline between science fiction und fantasy, hotly contested in times past, doesn’t seem to exist anymore.  I have been fascinated by the multivarious possibilities of fantasy for a long, long time – as a reader, as an illustrator and designer, as a linguist and a scholar of literature, as a professional editor, translator, and author. Therefore I decided to design a different sort of homepage than I used to have. No more smart definitions. Instead, more about me and about the things I enjoy. I hope you’ll like them, too.      Latest Update: 2011-12-17