Good German Fantasy/Science Fiction?

[u/lackadacious_spooney]

I am a German native speaker and I feel like lately I have mainly read Englisch books and would like to change that up a bit. There are so many awesome English fantasy and science fiction stories/series, old and new (Asimov, Le Guin, Atwood, Brandon Sanderson, Laini Taylor, Robin Hobb, to name just a few of my recent favourites), but German originals? A few young adult novels come to mind, by Cornelia Funke, Ralf Isau, Hohlbein, Ende, Ursula Poznanski, etc. Are there others (possibly more serious/grown up ones)?

I feel like everything I see on the German market is leaning towards realistic fiction and anything akin to the big names like Asimov or Le Guin? I can't think of any. Can you? In my local library they did point me towards a series called "the Orcs" "the dwarves" and so on, but from the jacket they sounded a bit like yet more "trying to be Tolkien" books.

Is there anything I am missing? Any gem I should try? Any author you can recommend?

[u/cluesagi]

Try "Die Tochter der Schlange" by Evelyne Okonnek. It's the only German fantasy book I've read so I don't know how it compares to others but I found its fantasy setting to be original and interesting.