Bastian Baumgart

Bastian Baumgart,

now lives in Hauset, Belgium, with his wife and two children.

He was born in Rheinberg, Germany, in 1984. After a stay abroad in Seattle, Washington, USA, and graduating from the Grafschafter Gymnasium Moers, he moved to Aachen.

He studied at the RWTH Aachen University and the Royal Technical University in Stockholm, graduating with a degree in industrial engineering and a teaching certificate. He then completed a part-time doctorate in energy economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

"Das Schattenland" ("The Shadowland") is his first fantasy trilogy. He is currently writing a new cycle in the world known from "Das Schattenland".