Tommy Jaud

Tommy Jaud (* July 16, 1970 in Schweinfurt, Germany ) is a German writer, screenwriter and freelance writer for several television productions.

Career

Tommy Jaud made ​​after graduating from high school to community service in a kindergarten, and then started studying German at the University of Bamberg. In his time as a student Jaud hosted a radio show on Antenne Thüringen and wrote as a freelancer for the Harald Schmidt Show. After abandoning his studies, he moved to Cologne. Here he worked for various television productions, such as creative producer for the comedy series Ladykracher and as Head Writer for the week show Sat.1. Jaud also wrote the screenplays for the TV series Love Life. In addition, he has worked as a writer for the Today show.

Novels and audiobooks

Jauds novels idiot (2004), remaining vacation (2006) and Millionaire (2007) were added with the voice of Christoph Maria Herbst as an audio book.

Overall, until November 2012 over 4.3 million of his books have been sold.

2010 appeared Jauds novel Hummeldumm in printed form, as an e -book and also as an audio book with the author as a speaker. The book was the most successful German novel of the year 2010. In November 2012, the novel was published Überman.

More books he wrote under the pseudonym Moritz Matthies for the Fischer Verlag.

Movies

Idiot was filmed in 2006 with Oliver Pocher and Anke Engelke, directed by Tobi Baumann; Release date was April 12, 2007 The script for this production wrote Tommy Jaud itself. ; with Engelke and Baumann, he had already worked at Ladykracher.

On 18 December 2008 1 satellite showed the second work of the team Jaud / Baumann, Two Santas with Christoph Maria Herbst and Bastian Pastewka that was " best TV comedy " won the 2009 German Comedy Award in the category.

Jaud also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of his novel Resturlaub which was directed by Gregor Schnitzler and was released in August 2011.