Claus Hant is a German writer, best known as the creator of Der Bulle von Tölz, a TV series that ran on prime time for over a decade and made German TV history with its audience figures. Hant's films have been nominated for the Adolf Grimme Awards and have been honoured with the Goldener Löwe/Deutscher Fernsehpreis, the Cadrage Succes, the Romy (TV award) and the Bavarian Film Awards.

Claus Hant has also written Young Hitler, a book about the formative years of the German dictator Adolf Hitler, published by Quartet Books, London.^[1]

Film and television

• Eight Miles High (feature film, contributor)
• Der Bulle von Tölz (television series, seven episodes)
• The Day of the Cat [de] (feature film starring Bruno Ganz, based on a novel by Thomas Hürlimann)
• The Robber Hotzenplotz [de] (feature film)

Thriller

• Affenschande, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005 ISBN 978-3-502-11005-7
• Weltspartag, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007.ISBN 978-3-502-11039-2

Non-Fiction

• Young Hitler, Quartet Books, London 2010^[2]
• Das Drehbuch. Praktische Filmdramaturgie. Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1999^[3]
• Hitler, Die wenig bekannten Fakten, Bookmundo, Rotterdamm, 2020, ISBN 978-9-40360-415-2