About: Thor Kunkel

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Thor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main on 2 September 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug friends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany. In 1981, on a scholarship to the United States, he enrolled in the creative writing programme of the San Francisco Art Institute.

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  • Thor Kunkel (* 2. September 1963 in Frankfurt am Main) ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller und freiberuflicher PR-Berater. Sein Roman Endstufe löste 2004 eine hitzige Debatte in den Feuilletons mehrerer Zeitungen aus. (de)
  • Thor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main on 2 September 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug friends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany. In 1981, on a scholarship to the United States, he enrolled in the creative writing programme of the San Francisco Art Institute. Following his return to West Germany, Kunkel joined the staff of advertising agency Young & Rubicam, then in 1988 joined the Swiss in London, England. After marrying Dutch artist Gerda Bakker, he moved to Amsterdam in 1992 and re-joined Young & Rubicam as creative director, quitting in 1996 to take up directing and writing. He now lives in Switzerland and the Netherlands. His first novel, The Blacklight-Terrarium (1999), won him a major German literary prize. His 2011 novel Subs has been put into film and with the same title by director Oskar Roehler. (en)
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  • Thor Kunkel (* 2. September 1963 in Frankfurt am Main) ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller und freiberuflicher PR-Berater. Sein Roman Endstufe löste 2004 eine hitzige Debatte in den Feuilletons mehrerer Zeitungen aus. (de)
  • Thor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main on 2 September 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug friends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany. In 1981, on a scholarship to the United States, he enrolled in the creative writing programme of the San Francisco Art Institute. (en)
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  • Thor Kunkel (de)
  • Thor Kunkel (en)
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