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Timo Leibig has known Nuremberg since he was a child. To be Audiobook “Baal” the writer went through Nuremberg’s old town with different eyes and found inspiration for an exciting, dark story. In an interview with inFranken.de.
“Baal”: Franconian mystery thriller as an audio book on Audible
As Audible Original the Nuremberg thriller was published in the form of an audio book. The 38-year-old creator Timo Leibig baptized him with the name Baal, and not without reason: “Baal is the name of a demon from the Christian doctrine of demons, which was developed by the church in extensive manifestos in the Middle Ages. Years ago I was about computer games figured it out and wanted one exciting, occult story write that in the plot repeatedly References to the Middle Ages has.” The thriller is about a duo of investigators who, in the course of a strange case, get further and further into the mysterious world of demons, which rotates between superstition, the Nuremberg underground and evil itself.
Watch Baal by Timo Leibig on Audible
You can currently test the Audible service as part of a spring offer and test exciting titles such as “Baal” for just €2.95 each including extra credit. Leibig finds it exciting that the story has been published as an audio book and shows it enthusiastic about the choice of speaker. “The decision was up to Audible, but Vera Teltz did a great job. I also recommended using a speaker because we two strong main characters have. I found it much more appropriate that a woman read it and they found a great cast.” Teltz is known, among other things, as the dubbing voice of Naomie Harris in the “Pirates of the Caribbean series” or in the James Bond films “Skyfall”. , “Spectre” and “No Time To Die”.
For the 38-year-old writer, classic books and audio books go hand in hand considerable part of the readership falls back on the version set to music and listen to them in a relaxed manner in their everyday lives, for example on a car journey. However, the possibility of a hardback in cooperation with the Amazon publishers would still exist and depends on the success of the audio book. For the construction of his characters, the author relies on one Mixture of character traits from people he knows, figures from pop culture and his imagination. “It is not the case that one is considering letting the neighbor Karl-Heinz appear here. All the characters have their meaning in the constellation of the story.”
Nuremberg’s medieval history perfect for the story
“Nuremberg has this connection to the Middle Ages and that’s where you could place a story like that wonderfully. I studied in Nuremberg and I’m from near Lake Brombach, I grew up there and Nuremberg is just such a cool city. The old town in particular with its medieval influences simply appealed to me and I always wanted to locate a story there, it just fitted together perfectly,” enthuses Timo Leibig in an interview about the Franconian metropolis.
Just places like that historic rock passages under the old townthe baroque Hesperiden Gardens or the Johannisfriedhof are predestined for the plot of an occult novel with mysterious and medieval elements. Also the Kaiserburg, the Dürerhaus and the entire old town must not be missing. Leibig, who was born in Gunzenhausen (Middle Franconia), incorporated all the locations he knows in Nuremberg into the novel and is visibly enthusiastic: “During special research for the book, I looked at everything in detail. In everyday life or when If you just walk through Nuremberg, you don’t look at the locations that closely. It was really exciting what else you discovered there.”
You can do the same and go on a tour of discovery through Nuremberg while listening or afterwards. Visiting the original locations creates a whole new listening experience, which makes the story even more gripping than it already is. Even if the writer now lives in Lindau on Lake Constance, he is still there enthusiastic about Franconia and is also considering Franconia as the setting for his novels for future projects, but there are no concrete plans for this yet. Since his stories mainly take place in southern Germany, another episode from Franconia is quite possible.
Unusual approaches and dark stories: future projects of the Franconian author
Timo Leibig would like to be less committed to a specific genre and instead cleverly weave his unusual ideas into new novels. The writer is currently writing a science fiction novel set in Munich. Some time ago he wrote pure crime novels himself, das In his opinion, the crime genre itself is as good as told: “At some point I just couldn’t watch it anymore. When I look at the amount of crime novels in the media, it slowly exhausts itself and at some point the stories just repeat themselves. And then I try to avoid that in my books by I try to tell more unusual stories. My approach when I became an author was that the occult theme always runs a little bit through my works.”
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A second part of Baal is quite conceivable for him, as long as the cooperation with Audible/Amazon is continued and the first part is well received by the audience. He would definitely like to continue to pursue his profession as an author in this form, but is open to new developments: “For a while I found the concept of interactive books very exciting. With e-books it would be possible to build in links and let the reader decide how the protagonist acts next. In this way, stories unfold differently each time you read them. Unfortunately, the concept has not caught on so far, so the book or audio book is still the best choice for me.”
He himself is an avid reader of novels from Dan Brown’s “Illuminati series” or books by author Thomas Harris, the creator of the stories about Hannibal Lecter (“The Silence of the Lambs”). It is clear to him that he has his keep developing your own style would like to be inspired by the writing style of the role models mentioned. His studies in Nuremberg brought him to writing in the first place. The mystery thriller “Baal” should definitely have a special place in his bibliography.
Information about the audio book:
- Full title: Baal
- Playing time: 8 hours and 3 minutes
- Unabridged audio book
- Voiced by: Vera Teltz
- Released January 13, 2023 as <%LINK type="" text="Audible Original*" href= rel="noopener" %>
- ASIN: B0BS6KVGGN
