Find the perfect Authors in Germany in minutes from over 15,000 CVs with the power of AI
Need a book author, ghostwriter, or content writer for articles, brand copy, or expert content? Find vetted freelance authors who can shape a clear voice, structure complex ideas, and deliver polished text fast with precise matching and available talent.
About the role
What they write
A freelance author turns ideas, interviews, research, and briefs into text that reads clearly and holds attention. Companies bring in authors for books, white papers, thought leadership, blog series, case studies, speeches, scripts, and ghostwriting. In Germany, this often means working in English, German, or both, with a tone that fits the brand and the audience.
Typical deliverables
- Articles, blog posts, and long-form editorial pieces
- Ghostwritten books, memoirs, and expert-led manuscripts
- White papers, reports, and position papers
- Brand narratives, founder stories, and keynote drafts
- Scripted content for video, podcast, or webinar use
Skills that matter
A strong Author does more than write well. They interview subject-matter experts, verify facts, build a clean structure, and keep a consistent voice across long documents. Many companies also look for a writer who can work as a content writer, copywriter, or ghostwriter when the project is commercial, editorial, or confidential.
- Clear structure and sharp storytelling
- Strong research and source handling
- Interviewing and brief interpretation
- Tone control across different formats
- Careful editing and revision discipline
Tools and workflow
Freelance authors usually work in Google Docs, Word, editorial CMS tools, and shared review systems. For larger projects, they may also use interview notes, style guides, source packs, and feedback from marketing, comms, legal, or subject experts. The best collaborators do not just deliver text. They keep the process organized and make approvals easier.
When companies hire
- A new content strategy needs immediate writing support
- Internal experts have the knowledge, but not the time to write it down
- A launch, rebrand, or campaign needs fast, high-quality copy
- A book, report, or leadership piece needs a trusted ghostwriter
- The team needs specialist writing without adding a permanent headcount
For Germany-based projects, companies often value authors who can match local business language, work with German editorial standards, and collaborate smoothly with distributed teams. Remote work is common, but workshops or interviews on-site can help when the material is sensitive or highly technical.
What strong authors deliver
The best freelance authors are reliable with substance, not just style. They ask good questions, handle feedback without losing the thread, and keep an eye on accuracy, consistency, and audience fit. They can take a rough outline, a transcript, or a dense expert briefing and turn it into finished text that feels deliberate, not assembled.
Meet FRATCH Authors
Manuel Kübler
Senior Full-Stack Developer & IT Trainer
Last position:
.NET Developer, SAP Business One Consultant at Own Projects
- DTO class generator: In-house development of a tool for the automatic generation of classes, functions, and methods for use in .NET Core projects based on SAP Business One Service Layer metadata
- E-invoice import add-on: Development of a SAP Business One add-on / coresuite module for the automated import of ZUGFeRD e-invoices as incoming invoices – with configurable mapping to flexibly control the import logic across four mapping types (DIRECT, SQL, FIXED, EXPR). The add-on is available as a licensed product for SAP Business One customers.
Stack: SAP Business One, SAP Business One Service Layer, coresuite Country Package, C#
Moritz Knüppel
Scrum Master, Agile Coach & Trainer
Last position:
Scrum Master, Agile Coach at Name on request
The managing director stepped back from day-to-day operations because he founded another company during Corona, which left the team without leadership for around 3 years.
My task was to train a new Product Owner, shape a coherent team from the developers and the Product Owner, and coach this newly formed team into a state where self-organized value delivery for the customer was possible again.
Due to the political situation in the US, the revenue of my client’s main customer dropped, which made a change in the business model necessary for my client. I was allowed to support the transition from a service provider to an AI-first company with a broad customer base in a strategic advisory role, hire staff, and facilitate several C-level negotiations between my client and its new customer.
TASKS
- Train the team and management in Scrum and agile working
- Coach a junior Product Owner to PSPO II level
- Mediate conflicts as part of change processes
- C-level consulting and negotiation facilitation
- Develop and evaluate business models
- Lead the hiring process for 4 new employees
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Successfully coached the Product Owner to PSPO II level
- Formed a coherent Scrum team from a team without leadership
- Restored self-organized value delivery for the customer
- Successfully transformed to AI-native development (Claude)
- Successfully changed the client’s business model
TOOLS & METHODS
- Team building
- NVC according to Rosenberg
- Conflict management
- Workshop facilitation
- Negotiation facilitation
- Leadership coaching
- Personio hiring
Michael Ferchland
Branch Manager, Authorized Signatory, Turnkey Construction Bavaria
Last position:
Branch Manager, Authorized Signatory, Turnkey Construction Bavaria at Swietelsky Deutschland GmbH
- Independent leadership of the SFB Bavaria branch, including the Munich and Regensburg sub-branches, both technically and in personnel matters
- Strategy, development and establishment of the branch as one of the leading general contractors in Germany
- Ultimately responsible for successful contract acquisition, maintaining client relationships and the overall financial success
- Ensuring smooth operation of all processes from acquisition and bid preparation to resource planning and technical execution
- Representation and leadership of the branch and its operations according to laws, shareholder agreement rules, shareholder resolutions and company regulations
- Results-oriented implementation of Swietelsky's corporate goals
- Revenue responsibility of over EUR 40 million per year
- Responsibility for 40 employees
- Strategic development and implementation of growth targets for Swietelsky International
- Active market monitoring to open up new business areas
- Representation of the company in handling projects in the public eye
- Representation of the company at national events and with associations such as the Construction Industry Association
- Representation of the company in compliance auditing procedures
- Successful turnaround of the Regensburg branch, improving results and addressing legacy issues
- Successful establishment of the Munich branch
- Acquisition of Dawonia as a key client
- Implementation and execution of DIN ISO 9001 with successful certification in own units
- Management and execution of bids for the business unit with individual project volumes of EUR 500 million
- Development, installation and deployment of BIM expertise for business operations
André Siegmund
IT Consultant SAP® Authorizations RAD/UAM, Basis Administration, SAP® IS-U EMD, Billing Processes
Last position:
IT Consultant SAP® Administration at Lechwerke AG (LEW)
- IT services for administering the SAP® systems NETZ/Sales, BW, Core, and Portal
- Administration of SAP® authorizations and users using central user administration (CUA) in SAP® Solution Manager
- Development and further enhancement of SAP® authorization roles
- Role assignment according to requests
- Creation, modification, and deletion of users
- Incident handling and error analysis (e.g., authorization trace, debugging in test systems)
- Collaboration with the SAP® development team on new implementations and process changes
- Special tasks
- Implementation of Privileged User Management (PUM) 2023–2025 using Security Bridge
- System decommissioning of SAP® Core and migration to S/4HANA
Viktor Shcherban
AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer
Last position:
AI Engineer (Freelance) at Empion
Enterprise AI content categorization and AI-powered web research.
- Built multi-LLM evaluation framework with annotated data
- Iterated LLM error rates based on annotated datasets
- Implemented AI-powered web research pipeline Stack: LLM, evals, OpenRouter, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React
Michael Oswald
CIO, Authorized Signatory
Last position:
CIO, Authorized Signatory at HW Holding GmbH
- Development and implementation of the international digitalization & IT strategy
- Group-wide ERP transformation, process harmonization, integration of subsidiaries
- IT responsibility for merging the three largest subsidiaries
- Design and implementation of the cyber security strategy based on ISO 27001
- Automation/OT integration
- AI platform implementation
- Budget responsibility
- License management/optimization
- Staff responsibility and development for 21 employees
Andreas Anding
Interim AI Lead & Digital Architect · AI operating models in regulated companies · Author
Last position:
AI Consultant & Digital Architect at TeamIntel
- Governed multi-agent orchestration for regulated, EU-based companies – self-hostable, compliant with the EU AI Act and GDPR („by design“), BYOM (own models/GPU).
- Two-gate governance: agent deliberation + mandatory human approval, full signed audit trail; graduated autonomy model („internal → autonomous per skill“).
- Verified knowledge graph („Company Brain“) with source evidence for every answer; own orchestration framework (Virtual Team Framework).
- Industry solutions for financial services: compliance monitoring, invoice and contract review; hands-on development with LLMs (including Anthropic/Claude), agentic workflows, RAG.
- Building the governance-focused multi-agent platform TeamIntel (see AI reference projects).
Dino Cardiano
Management Consultant, Mentor & Facilitator for Your Future, Innovation & Transformation Projects
Last position:
Certified Coach (ICI) - Business Coach at Future Pioneers Collective
Internationally certified Master Coach, International Association of Coaching Institutes (ICI)
Future Pioneer. Future architect & bridge builder for leaders & teams - business coach for future-ready, values-based transformation in organizations.
I enable leaders, teams, and organizations to increase their future readiness in a self-determined way, master complex change, and connect value creation with purpose, responsibility, and humanity.
One-to-one coaching for leaders
Team and leadership team coaching
Conflict coaching and conflict facilitation
Process-supporting systemic coaching in transformation programs
Business coaching for transformation and change projects (innovation, culture change, New Work, intrapreneurship, agile work, leadership development), with a focus on leadership, team dynamics, conflict culture, and organizational systems.
Certified coach for non-violent communication (NVC)
Certified hypnosystemic coach
Certified conflict coach
Certified team coach
Certified career coach
Certified leadership coach
More than 6,000 hours of mentoring and coaching in the last 12 years
Falko Werner
Transformation Coach, AI Trainer, Author
Last position:
Institute for Business and Personal Development, South Harz
- Development of an AI-supported personality analysis based on the institute's SDWA4: online survey, AI-supported and automated evaluation, and email delivery
- Requirements analysis, prototype development, evaluation, derivation of a simplified SDWA4-light analysis, continuous improvement, design, Make automation, deployment
Kacper Kowalski
Senior Embedded Software Engineer / Lead Contributor
Last position:
Author
Seqnaut and Sycosm (WIP) – Embedded Audio DSP & Synthesis Platform
- Embedded audio DSP framework — synthesizers, effects, drum machines; modular audio graph
- Sequencing: PianoRoll, StepGrid, MasterClock; 8-voice polyphonic synth; CLI + OSC
- Transient Detector — dual-envelope adaptive threshold, guitar attack detection
- Hardware: Teensy 4.1, custom AFE design tapping BOSS GX-100; MIDI FX integration
Label: C++23, C, Python, CMake, FreeRTOS, Teensy 4.1 (ARM Cortex-M7), Teensy Audio (Stoffregen), DaisySP, I2S/SAI, OSC, MIDI
Karen Breiholz
M.A.
Last position:
Intake Counselor at OTHEB GmbH
Psychosocial counseling as part of the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Birgit Maier
Market Research, Ghostwriting, Supplier Sourcing
Last position:
Database builder at mr-directory.com
- Building the world's largest database of market research service providers and survey platforms ([link]
Norbert Buro
Project Manager Electrical Engineering, Automation, Shipbuilding
Last position:
Project Manager Electrical Engineering and Automation at Fr. Fassmer GmbH
- Project management of electrical engineering and automation for the research vessel Meteor on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space.
- Organized development.
- Negotiated with clients and project owners.
- Managed up to eight employees.
Christian Gasche
Freelance Journalist
Last position:
Freelance Journalist at Adel & Link GmbH & Co. KG
- Wrote specialist articles on management consulting, digitalization and IT topics
Martina Peukert
CEO / Producer
Last position:
CEO / Producer at Programmaker Filmproduktion
- As a producer, I bring emotions to the screen and showcase your company in an unparalleled way.
- With my creative eye and technical know-how, I make your vision shine.
- Show the world who you are and what you have to offer.
- Let your audience dive into the captivating story your brand tells.
- Turn prospects into customers and boost your success.
Discover over 15,000 top freelancers
Authors statistics
Typical experience
21 years
Average project duration
5.8 years
Certifications per freelancer
4
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
88%
Master's degree or higher
65%
Doctorate
14%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this role are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Average rates for Authors & Seniority distribution
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions? See our quick guide to FRATCH
A freelance Author turns raw material into finished text that serves a business goal. That can mean ghostwriting, article creation, brand storytelling, executive thought leadership, or long-form editorial work. The best authors also adapt their voice to the audience, from internal stakeholders to public readers.
Bring in an Author when the work needs focus, speed, or a voice that your team cannot cover in-house. This is common for books, reports, launch content, and leadership pieces that need structure and polish. A freelancer is often the better choice when the brief is urgent or when subject experts are available for input but not for writing.
A strong Author combines writing skill with research, interviewing, editing, and message discipline. Look for someone who can handle complex topics, keep a consistent tone, and turn rough notes into clean copy. For many projects, experience as a ghostwriter, content writer, or copywriter is a good sign.
An Author is usually hired for deeper narrative work, longer formats, or a more distinctive voice. A copywriter often focuses on conversion-led messaging, while a content writer may focus on steady editorial output. The roles overlap, but the best author brings stronger structure, voice control, and long-form handling.
Yes, most Authors can work remotely without friction. For Germany-based teams, remote collaboration works well when briefs are clear and interviews are scheduled in advance. On-site sessions can still help when the project depends on executive input, workshops, or confidential source material.
A clear Author project has defined inputs, audience, format, and review rounds. Good scopes include a white paper, a book chapter, a content series, a speech, or a set of ghostwritten articles. If the project is still vague, start with a discovery phase or a sample outline before committing to the full draft.
Judge an Author by clarity, structure, voice, accuracy, and how well the text fits the brief. Ask for relevant samples, especially in the same format or industry, and check how they handle revisions. Strong work reads as if it was written with purpose, not just polished at the end.
A freelance Author should expect to work from interviews, rough notes, or expert input rather than a finished manuscript. Good projects also need quick feedback loops and a clear decision maker. If you can manage voice, structure, and revisions calmly, you will fit the role well.
Request a Free Demo
Get in touch with the FRATCH team and we will get back to you within 4 hours.
Would you rather directly get in touch?
We always have the time for a call or email!
Philipp Thomaschewski
FRATCH CEO
