Marcel Weyers

Marcel Weyers
Marcel Weyers with his author colleague Michelle Schrenk at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018
Born (1991-10-16) October 16, 1991
Limburg an der Lahn
Nationality German
Other names Marcel Sohrmann
Occupation Author, translator, video game developer
Years active 2011–present
Website www.marcel-weyers.com

Marcel Weyers (born October 16, 1991, real name Marcel Sohrmann) is a German writer and translator. He is best known for the first official translations of visual novels into German, his visual novels Sleepless Night and This Is Where I Want To Die as well as his five-part novel series Raven Saga.

Life

Weyers studied English and German with a focus on literature at Justus Liebig University and graduated in 2014. Before that, he wrote his first stories and novels; his Shadow Trilogy, which he wrote at the age of 15, was published by Kubayamashi-Do Studien- und Fachbuchverlag in 2011. The three-part novel series is set in Japan and was inspired by mangas and animes.[1][2] In August 2014, his short novel Raven Blood – Awakened in the Dead of Night (German: Rabenblut – In dunkelster Nacht erwacht) was published, which was the first installment of a five-part novel series.[3] The Raven Saga was completed in February 2018. Translations into English, Italian, Spanish and Russian followed. His fantasy novel Depths of Forever was published in September 2016. Currently he lives with his husband in Dresden.

Translations

Weyers has worked as a translator on over 100 video games to date, including in particular visual novels and adventure games. He became known as a visual novel translator mainly through the official translation of RE: Alistair from sakevisual as well as through the translations of the developer roseVeRte – including Café 0 ~The Drowned Mermaid~ and How To Take Off Your Mask. Well-known adventure games Weyers has translated include Whispering Willows by Night Light Interactive, Sunset by Tale of Tales, and Demetrios by COWCAT, whose translation was highly acclaimed by Adventure-Treff.[4] His translation of the indexed Shoot 'em up video game Hatred by Destructive Creations caused controversy in 2015. As a result, Weyers removed all links from his website to the development studio and the video game.[5] Furthermore, Weyers also translated novels, for example for the Dead Soft publishing house The Lions of Berk: Johnnie by C. Cardeno[6][7] – as well as movie subtitles, among others for I Don't Want to Go Back Alone.

Other notable translations

Game development

Weyers developed his own visual novels, including the Sleepless Night series, which is based on characters from his Shadow Trilogy, but is considered a story in its own right. The two already released games Sleepless Night and Sleepless Night 2: Ladies’ Night(mare) have been released for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. The first installment has been downloaded more than 100,000 times and received over 6,000 mostly positive reviews.[8] A spin-off titled Midnight Chaos was released in 2014 as Donationware.

His LGBT series on socio-critical themes currently consists of two games; This Is Where I Want To Die from 2013 and To Kill A Black Swan from 2014. The visual novel This Is Where I Want To Die is part of the exhibition "RAINBOW ARCADE" by the Schwules Museum in Berlin[9] as well as the accompanying catalogue "RAINBOW ARCADE CATALOG: Queer Gaming History 1985-2018".[10] In October 2018, the game will be displayed at the Melbourne Queer Games Festival.[11] The title To Kill A Black Swan was inspired by To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and was presented by German newspaper Die Welt in the category "Games-Knüller" (translated: "Big hit games") in 2015.[12]

The visual novel Raven Curse was published in August 2018 in English and German and serves as a free prequel to the Raven Saga. In the game, the player takes control of the protagonist Corvus Raven and makes decisions at certain points to influence the plot.

YearTitleLanguagesPlatforms
2011SoulmatesEnglish, German, JapaneseLinux, Mac OS, Windows
2012Sleepless NightChinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, SpanishAndroid, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Windows
2013Sleepless Night 2: Ladies’ Night(mare)Dutch, English, German, Italian, KoreanLinux, Mac OS, Windows
This Is Where I Want To DieDutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, SpanishAndroid, Linux, Mac OS, Windows
2014Midnight ChaosDutch, English, German, Italian, KoreanLinux, Mac OS, Windows
To Kill A Black SwanDutch, English, German, PolishLinux, Mac OS, Windows
2018Raven CurseEnglish, GermanLinux, Mac OS, Windows

Bibliography

Series

Shadow Trilogy

  1. Shadows. Kubayamashi-Do Verlag, Frankfurt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9427-1911-7.
  2. Shadow Chaser. Kubayamashi-Do Verlag, Frankfurt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9427-1912-4.
  3. Shadow Land. Kubayamashi-Do Verlag, Frankfurt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9427-1913-1.

Raven-Saga

  1. Raven Blood: Awakened in the Dead of Night. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7368-9387-0.
  2. Raven Tears: Lost by Midnight. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7368-9460-0.
  3. Raven Poison: Forever Damned. 2015, ISBN 978-3-7368-9461-7.
  4. Raven Death: Died in the Moonlight. 2015, ISBN 978-3-73689-462-4.
  5. Raven Paradox: Whom the Bell Tolls. 2018, ISBN 978-3-7438-7512-8.

Witching Saga

  1. Witching Spell: Eternal Solitude. ISBN 978-3-7368-9942-1.
  2. Witching Curse: Withering Rose. ISBN 978-3-7396-0478-7.
  3. Witching Fire: Burning Hatred. ISBN 978-3-7438-0978-9.
  4. Witching Hour: Undying Love. ISBN 978-3-7438-3554-2.

Standalone novels

  • Depths of Forever. 2016, ISBN 978-1-5190-6977-1.

Collections

  • The Shadow Trilogy. Kubayamashi-Do Verlag, Frankfurt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9427-1914-8.
  • The Raven Saga. 2018, ISBN 978-1-9810-3969-2.
  • The Witching Saga. 2018, ISBN 978-1-9810-0411-9.

References

  1. ↑ Trost, Bernhard (2012-01-07). "Schatten aus einer fantastischen Welt" (in German). Frankfurter Neue Presse. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  2. ↑ Doll, Pia (2012-05-12). "20-jähriger Diezer schreibt Fantasy-Romane" (in German). Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  3. ↑ Wick, Helmut (2014-08-19). "Marcel Weyers - Rabenblut" (in German). Drehscheibe Bad Camberg. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  4. ↑ Stein, Michael (2016-05-31). "Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure - Adventure-Treff" (in German). Adventure-Treff. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  5. ↑ Weyers, Marcel (2015-06-01). "Hatred - German Translation". Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  6. ↑ C., Cardeno. "The Lions of Berk:Johnnie". Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  7. ↑ "The Lions of Berk:Johnnie Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Gesamtsortiment Unser Sortiment Dead Soft" (in German). Dead Soft. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  8. ↑ "Sleepless Night - Apps on Google Play". Google Play. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  9. ↑ "RAINBOW ARCADE - A queer history of video games 1985-2018 - SMU". Schwules Museum. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  10. ↑ "Rainbow Arcade: Over 30 Years of Queer Video Game History by Schwules Museum - Kickstarter". Kickstarter.com. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  11. ↑ "Queer Games Showcase Melbourne Queer Games Festival Arcade". Melbourne International Games Week. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  12. ↑ "30 Gratis-Abenteuerspiele für PC zum Download - Bilder & Fotos - WELT" (in German). Die Welt. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  • Official website
  • Marcel Weyers on IMDb
  • "Marcel Weyers". The Visual Novel Database.
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