born in 1954, is a critic, publicist, and literary scholar. For print, online, and radio, he works with books, images, and music, focusing on international crime fiction in all media forms and on literature from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Australia/Oceania. He currently publishes the online feuilleton CULTURMAG/CRIMEMAG and his own program for crime literature at Suhrkamp. Thomas Wörtche lives and works in Berlin.