Short biography

B.L.B. Ubiger studied geography, politics, sociology and history in Giessen and carried out research for BIOTA Southern Africa in Namibia and South Africa on changes in biodiversity.

Alongside the degree came a distance-learning course in journalism, then radio: an editorial traineeship at Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur, features for arts programmes and radio drama. One of them won the DeGEval Media Award in 2007. Radio taught Ubiger to listen closely. Not everything that is said matters. And not everything that matters is said.

Public relations and marketing followed, among others for the Egyptian Tourist Office, with events, campaigns and roadshows.

Later came education: state-certified training as an educator, further training in Marte Meo and in developmental therapy and education (ETEP), and many years of work with children, schools and families. The point was to see more behind a behaviour than the first impression.

All of this flows into the novels: an eye for places, an ear for voices, a sense of staging and of the small shifts between people.

The manuscript of Order and Chaos is finished, The Left End of the Bench is being revised, and Behind Glass is in progress. Ubiger lives in the middle of Germany.