Christian Schünemann, born in 1968 in Bremen, studied Slavic Studies in Berlin and Saint Petersburg. He has worked in Moscow and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and was a storyliner and screenwriter. Diogenes has previously published his crime series about the star hairdresser Tomas Prinz, and his crime novels — co-written with Jelena Volič — about the Serbian amateur detective Milena Lukin. Christian Schünemann lives in Berlin.