Philipp Tingler

During his time as a student, Tingler worked as a model, e.g., for Smart compact cars, Alcatel mobile phones, and Lusso ice cream.

He also published his first novel, the bestselling roman à clef entitled Hübsche Versuche (German for "Nice Tries") which assumes the form of a diary.

Tingler's performance in Klagenfurt, however, caused quite a stir and turned out be highly controversial, since he did not at all conformed to the conventions of the traditional German-speaking literary scene.

Besides his literary work, Tingler writes for TV and radio as well as for numerous magazines and newspapers in the German-speaking world, such as Vogue, Stern, Focus, and NZZ am Sonntag.

In 2008, Tingler was awarded the Kassel Literary Prize for Young Authors in recognition of the humorous quality of his work at a high artistic level, not least for his novel Fischtal (2007) which portrayed the decay of a bourgeois patrician family in West Berlin.