Thomas Wiedling has been engaged with literature written in Russian language for 35 years now. After studying Slavistics in Munich, Freiburg and Moscow he started working as a literary translator. Works by Sorokin, Marinina, Terekhov, Eppel, Likhachev and others have been translated by him into German. In the late 1990ies he shifted over to the agency business, bringing works by authors, who write in Russian language, not only to Germany, but to all international book markets.

Since 2017 Thomas Wiedling is continuing the successful representation of works written in Russian language worldwide acting as sole owner of the agency.

The Wiedling Literary Agency has a back list of more than 60 authors from literary classics and contemporary fiction up to non-fiction and bestselling genres like sci-fi, fantasy, horror, alternative medicine or self help.