Gunther Geltinger was born in 1974 in Erlenbach am Main and lives in Cologne. He studied scriptwriting and dramaturgy at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Geltinger’s critically acclaimed debut novel Mensch Engel (Man Angel) was published in 2008. Moor, longlisted for the prestigious Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, is his second novel.