Fred Sellin

Born in 1964, Fred Sellin studied journalism and worked as an editor and reporter for various daily and weekly newspapers. As a freelance author, he wrote biographies and autobiographies, including books on Heinz Rühmann and Boris Becker and autobiographies of the Klitschko brothers, Maria Höfl-Riesch, Ben Becker, and Dagur Sigurdsson. He also wrote several true-crime books and investigative nonfiction titles, including The Great Mess (»Die große Sauerei«), co-authored with Hannes Jaenicke, which became a SPIEGEL bestseller.