Daniel Faßbender used to be a sailor and dreamed of becoming a professional surfer. He earns his living as a duty editor for a large private TV channel. He studied comparative literature, politics and history. His debut novel The World’s Greatest Story of Falling was released in 2018 and longlisted for the ›Blogbuster Literature Prize‹. For Heaven’s Gate he was awarded a fellowship with the NRW Literary Office’s and Bonn Literature House’s one-to-one mentoring programme. He lives in Cologne, his native city.