Oliver Uschmann was born in 1977. He was one of the most out-of-place guys in school. He worked for UPS, and he broke off his apprenticeship to become a book dealer after just one day to start studying German and English literature in Bochum.
His literary career as a best selling author started with the publication of Hartmut und ich (2005), a novel that struck the very heart of a whole generation and sold over 150.000 copies.