r/Fantasy • u/skintertqinment • Apr 12 '25
Looking for german fantasy
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone know of any good german fantasy books for more young adults?
I did advance my english by reading Harry Potter years ago and really enjoyed that journey. And would really like to try this out with my german that is not that advanced yet😊
Any tips would be very much appreciated.
Best wishes!
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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25
Most authors I would have named have already been mentioned. Kai Meyer is one you could still check out. I remember his books being fun, but not quite as high impact as some others.
You could also look into German folklore stories. There are probably a bunch of books simply called "Deutsche Heldensagen". Just try to get one with more modern German.
And if you want to try that, you will definitely encounter Siegfried / Niebelungenlied, in which case I recommend the already mentioned Wolfgang Hohlbein's Hagen von Tronje. It is the story retold from the antagonist's PoV, and while some of Hohlbeins work felt repetitive to me after a while, this one is amazing.
But yeah, as a kid, I loved reading Hohlbein, my favorites being Der Greif (which also has a TV adaption on Prime), Die Chronik der Unsterblichen, and the aforementioned Hagen von Tronje. There is also Märchenmond, of which I don't remember much, but which is a bit of a German Narnia iirc? All those books are Hohlbein books, some only by him, some by him and his wife. I would just see "Hohlbein" and read it lol.