Ansgar Fabri, born in 1982, has worked as a freelance journalist (Rheinische Post) since the age of 20 and was the winner of a nationwide literary competition organized by Amnesty International and Aktion Mensch when he was 21. His award-winning short story “Alltagsszene” was published in the book “Voll die Helden” (Arena Verlag), which was used as school reading material.
He has been publishing novels, short stories and specialist books with publishers since the age of 25 and has also organized book publications for institutions. His debut as a self-publisher (“Zirkus der dunkelsten Stunde”) was a top 5 bestseller at TWENTYSIX. “Feuerernte” reached 3rd place in the “Bestseller of Tomorrow” competition organized by the AI company QualiFiction. The first version of the novel was written in about 20 days at the international novel writing marathon “NaNoWriMo”, making Fabri one of the winners in 2019.
Fabri graduated with a degree in social work and completed further training as a teacher of German as a foreign language. He worked as a research assistant at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, where he has been teaching creative writing since the age of 28.
Other teaching activities: for a project of the Literaturbüro NRW, the VHS Düsseldorf and VHS Mönchengladbach (creative writing), as well as at the Institut für Internationale Kommunikation Düsseldorf, the VHS Düsseldorf and the Goethe-Institut (German as a foreign language). He lives in Mönchengladbach with his wife, cultural educator Nadine Fabri, and his sons Noah and Elias.
I am involved with Climate Fiction Writers Europe because stories have the potential to make complex issues such as climate change imaginable and climate issues have the potential for exciting stories.
KIsandra – the AI developed at a university in the Lower Rhine region – is causing a worldwide sensation. It is programmed to create frighteningly accurate future scenarios from the doomsday legends of human history.
Journalist Rolf Habicht is skeptical about AI and reports critically. But then an eerie series of catastrophes begins that shake the entire globe: Invasive hornets attack humans, birds plummet dead from the sky, and destructive forces of nature devastate cities. Habicht’s investigation into the missing KIsandra developer soon becomes a race against time – because if KIsandra is right, the end of humanity has already begun.
Alternative Zero catapults journalist Rolf Habicht from Ansgar Fabri’s self-published bestseller “Feuerernte” and his Amnesty International and Aktion Mensch award-winning story “Alltagsszene” into a global scenario with regional German settings in Duesseldorf, Moenchengladbach, Viersen, Krefeld and Cologne.
Disturbing scarecrows with long metal claws appear overnight in a cornfield in Moenchengladbach. People who get too close to the corn suffer burns. A child collapses in the cornfield with mysterious symptoms. TV journalist Rolf Habicht reports on the mysterious events and comes across weather data that reaches weeks into the future. His research sets off an enemy who threatens him and everyone he cares about in a way that is far beyond Habicht’s imagination.
3rd place in the “Bestseller von morgen” (transl.: “Bestseller of Tomorrow”) competition organized by the AI company Qualifiction.